28 September 2008

Chip PC Thin Clients Now VMware-Ready Certified:

Nice to see Jim Crocco as General Manager, Chip PC, Americas. I had the opportunity to work with Jim's server based computing company Netier almost 10 years ago before they merged with Wyse. He and his staff jumped into a very earlier adapter program to enable WiFi in embedded NT. We asked them on a Friday if they thought they could do it. The OS arrived Monday AM by courier. It worked!!!

This company also makes the Jack PC. Fits in a junction box and has POE.

Here is the press release:

Chip PC Thin Clients Now VMware-Ready Certified: Innovative Thin Client Platforms Add an Important Component to its Extensive Support of Desktop Virtualization Environments

Sep 15, 2008, Las Vegas, NV


At VMworld 2008, Chip PC Technologies, a global technology leader in desktop virtualization and server-centric solutions, today announced it had certified its range of innovative thin client devices for VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Virtual Desktop Manager. VMware Virtual Desktop Manager allows customers deploying VMware VDI to deliver an enhanced user experience, simplify desktop management, and reduce costs.

Further leveraging Chip PC's participation in the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program, Chip PC and VMware have worked together to deliver an integrated solution based on VMware Virtual Desktop Manager and Chip PC thin client devices.

“As a VMware Ready Certified product, customers can deploy Chip PC’s Thin Client with confidence, knowing it is reliable, secure and optimized for the VMware platform,” said Jerry Chen senior director of enterprise desktop at VMware. “Our vast ecosystem of partners is an important vehicle for VMware customers to build out complete virtualization solutions. We will continue to collaborate with innovators like Chip PC to provide our mutual customers with valuable and practical virtualization solutions.”

"Desktop computing is most certainly moving towards virtualization and we see many of our customers adopting desktop virtualization solutions in the near term," said Adi Dulberg, CEO, Chip PC. "Providing seamless integration into VMware’s robust desktop virtualization environment and supporting virtualization solutions all across the board is a strategic goal for us.”

“We are pleased to add VMware certification as an important component of our desktop virtualization support,” said Jim Crocco, General Manager, Chip PC, Americas. “Our flexible products are an out-of-the-box solution for both virtual desktop and server-based environments.”


About Chip PC
Chip PC Technologies focuses on delivering innovative desktop computing solutions covering the complete spectrum from smart user desktop devices to Active-Directory-based management software. http://www.chippc.com

About VMware
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the data center offering a wide range of award-winning virtualization products. www.vmware.com.

Editorial Contact: Ms. Ronit Pasternak, Tel: +972 4 8501 121 Email:ronit@chippc.com;

* Xtreme PC®, Jack PC® and Xcalibur Global® are trademarks of Chip PC Technologies. All brands and names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective holders. VMware and VMware Ready are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions.


All company and product names mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and are used for identification purposes only.

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Steve

Wyse and Novell Announce First Enterprise-Class Linux Thin Client Optimized for Desktop Virtualization


Looking back at old press releases that I have not read.This one caught me eye.

Wyse and Novell Announce First Enterprise-Class Linux Thin Client Optimized for Desktop Virtualization

OEM Partnership Offers Industry Standard Thin Client-Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise

Wyse Technology, the global leader in thin computing, and Novell today announced the joint delivery of Wyse Enhanced SUSE® Linux Enterprise, the next-generation of Linux* operating system designed for thin computing environments and available only on Wyse desktop and mobile thin client devices. Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise is a powerful combination of Wyse's extensive experience in thin computing and the ease of use, flexibility and security of SUSE Linux Enterprise. Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise will be available pre-loaded on the Wyse thin client devices in Q4 2008.

According to a 2008 IDC report (1), the Linux thin client market will grow from nearly 1 million units in 2008 to 1.8 million units in 2011. Linux will reach a 30.5 percent share of all operating system shipments on thin client devices by 2011. The ever-increasing market penetration of Linux-based thin clients is due to their ability to lower total cost of ownership, while helping enterprises gain a more secure and flexible computing environment. Additionally, in emerging areas such as desktop virtualization, the operating system used by client devices is becoming less relevant, as long as it is an enabler of virtualization technologies, and not the limiting factor.

With Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise customers gain a host of benefits. End-users will be able to maximize productivity and minimize training costs due to the easy-to-use graphical user interface combined with the rich user experience provided only by Wyse, including cross-platform multimedia support, USB peripheral support and flexible hardware options. IT administrators will gain the flexibility of having their thin client devices automatically update and configured upon boot-up, or being able to use the enhanced scalable management capabilities of Wyse Device Manager, the industry-leading thin computing management software solution.

"With the announcement of Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise pre-loaded on our platforms, we are providing more choices and more flexibility to users who wish to deploy Linux-based thin clients," said Ricardo Antuna, vice president of Product Management and Business Development at Wyse Technology, Inc. "Since we announced our intention to collaborate with Novell last year, we have worked towards creating a solution that will enable our customers to deploy Linux without the compromises on security, scalability and performance encountered with non-standard and proprietary thin Linux distributions. Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise doesn't disappoint."

"We are pleased that Wyse has selected SUSE Linux Enterprise as the platform for their next generation Linux-based thin clients," said Carlos Montero-Luque, vice president of product management for Open Platform Solutions at Novell. "This is clear indication of the readiness of desktop Linux overall to meet the needs of enterprise customers, including lower costs, stronger security and improved manageability. All kinds of organizations are finding Linux thin client deployments to be a good fit for their hardware, security needs and budgets, and we are excited to partner with Wyse to deliver a market-leading solution."

Integration with Microsoft* Active Directory* and unparalleled driver and software support will enable enterprises to easily deploy Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise thin clients in a Windows* environment. Finally, Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise includes built-in support for Wyse's suite of virtualization software, enabling enterprises to take advantage of third-party desktop virtualization solutions such as Citrix* XenDesktop* and VMware* VDI.

"Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise further builds momentum for client virtualization by providing customers with multiple options when deploying desktop appliances within their organizations," said Raj Dhingra, group vice president and general manager, Desktop Delivery Group, Citrix Systems Inc. "The tight integration between Wyse’s suite of desktop appliances and Citrix client virtualization technologies, XenDesktop and Citrix XenApp, provides a superior experience for the user and a cost-effective solution for desktop and application delivery."

"The VMware-Wyse partnership has been extended with the release of Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise with built-in support for the VDM client. This release further helps lower the overall costs of deploying a VMware VDI solution by eliminating the need for expensive client-side hardware and operating systems," said Jerry Chen, VMware's senior director of Product Marketing for Enterprise Desktop Products.

Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise includes the GNOME* desktop, Firefox* browser, a powerful terminal emulator, as well as pre-built technologies for connecting to thin computing architectures. These architectures include the VDM client from VMware, the ICA client from Citrix, and the RDP client from Microsoft. This flexibility and support makes Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise the ideal choice for organizations whether they wish to run server-based, Web-based, or local (including legacy) applications.

Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise will be available in Q4 2008 pre-loaded Wyse X50L mobile thin client devices. For more information on Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise and the Wyse family of thin clients visit http://www.wyse.com/products.

About Wyse Technology

Wyse Technology is the global leader in thin computing. Wyse and its partners deliver the hardware, infrastructure software, and services that comprise thin computing, allowing people to access the information they need using the applications they want, but with better security, manageability, and at a much lower total cost of ownership than a PC. Thin computing allows CIOs and senior IT professionals to reduce costs, manage risk, and deliver access to information. Wyse partners closely with industry leaders Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, and others to achieve this objective. Wyse is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices worldwide.

For more information, visit the Wyse website at http://www.wyse.com

About Novell

Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With its infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information, visit www.novell.com.

PR Contacts:

Cara Cassidy, for Wyse Technology
Big Sky Communications, Inc.
(408) 460-0241
cara@bigskypr.com

Charlotte Betterley
Novell, Inc.
(781) 464-8253
cbetterley@novell.com

(1) IDC, Worldwide Enterprise Thin Client 2008-2012 Forecast and Analysis: QView, Doc # 212588, June 2008

SUSE is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

* All brands and names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective holders.
or call 1-800-GET-WYSE
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Steve

3Tera Partners with Citrix

Who is going to buy Citrix? Maybe no one.

Press Release from 3 Tera.

3Tera Partners with Citrix
to Bring Cloud Computing into the Mainstream


(VMWorld 2008 – Las Vegas, NV – September 15, 2008) – 3Tera , Inc., the leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, announced today a partnership with Citrix Systems, Inc. to make enterprise grade cloud computing solutions available to customers of all sizes in external hosted clouds, or as a platform that can be deployed in corporate data centers behind customer firewalls . By combining the new Citrix Cloud Center™ (C3) solution with 3Tera’s award winning AppLogic™ Cloud Computing Platform, the companies are elevating the benefits of virtualization to a new level – from physical servers and virtual machines to entire virtual data centers and applications running in the cloud. The initial focus of the collaboration between the companies will center on the new Citrix® XenServer™ Cloud Edition, a key component of the Citrix C3 product family. XenServer Cloud Edition offers the full benefits of the proven Xen-based virtualization technology enhanced with advanced cloud infrastructure capabilities specifically defined by 3Tera. 3Tera will also embed XenServer Cloud Edition in future versions of its AppLogic Cloud Computing platform.

"With the introduction of Citrix Cloud Center (C3), Citrix offers a solution to manage the information technology infrastructure of next generation data centers," said AJ Jennings, vice president of business development, Citrix Systems. "We carefully chose 3Tera to be one of our first strategic partners for C3 because of their deep experience offering a full and open cloud computing platform for running multi-tier applications in a massively scalable global cloud."

"As cloud computing moves from early adopters to mainstream users, new customers are demanding enterprise levels of reliability, support and control. Our Cloudware architecture allows us to work with Citrix to incorporate commercial, industrial strength virtualization into AppLogic," said Barry X Lynn , Chairman and CEO, 3Tera. "Adding XenServer Cloud Edition to our application packaging technology, global cloud presence, and disaster recovery appliances creates the first open cloud computing platform ready for mission critical applications."

Benefits for Customers
Cloud computing is dramatically changing the way applications will be developed, delivered and deployed by everyone from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses and startups. The Citrix / 3Tera partnership adds industrial strength virtualization to an already massively scalable platform. The resulting benefits are particularly important to the enterprise.

  • Reinforcing its industry leadership, Citrix is working with 3Tera to add powerful capabilities for data center scalability, management and portability to offer enterprise customers secure, easy to use virtual infrastructure services scalable on demand with remote management through a browser.
  • Offering an OS agnostic platform for cloud computing solutions and virtualized data centers leveraging 3Tera's support for all major server operating systems: Linux, Sun's Solaris and Microsoft Windows.
  • The proven leadership of Citrix in virtualization helps make AppLogic an even more dependable platform on which multiple operating system components can operate in the same applications.

About 3Tera, Inc.
3Tera, Inc. is the innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, simplifying the deployment and scaling of Web applications. Named "Cool Vendor in IT operations, 2008" by Gartner Group and one of the "Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008" by Linux Magazine, 3Tera offers the AppLogic™ grid operating system that enables the first true utility computing services to completely remove the cost and complexity associated with infrastructure. AppLogic converts commodity servers into scalable grids on which users can visually operate, deploy and scale transactional Web applications without any modification of code. Software-as-a-Service providers, Web 2.0 companies, enterprises and open source developers can now get new online services quickly to market by utilizing resources from commodity hosting providers on a pay-as-you-go basis, while maintaining complete control of applications including visual operation, scaling and on-demand resource provisioning. For more information, visit www.3tera.com.

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3Tera, the 3Tera logo, AppLogic, Cloudware and Cloud Computing without Compromise are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Tera, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other company names and marks belong to their respective owners.

Until the next post,

Steve