Microsoft, Citrix join forces against VMware
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft and Citrix Systems have tightened their virtualization partnership to help both companies compete more effectively with market leader VMware, they announced Monday.
The announcements were made just as VMware's customer conference kicked off in Cannes, France.
"What this is really about is Microsoft and Citrix as a team going against VMware," said Mark Bowker, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group.
The tools in Citrix Essentials include StorageLink, for provisioning and managing virtual machines across large storage area networks; dynamic provisioning, which allows thousands of virtual machines to be booted simultaneously from a single master image; and a new "lab management" tool for creating virtualized test and development environments.