In case you missed it, today Citrix and Cisco announced a desktop virtualization solution called the Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution with Citrix XenDesktop. This solution will make it easier and more cost effective for businesses to deploy high-definition virtual desktops to all users enterprise-wide. While this solution will be very exciting for large customers looking to truly embrace desktop virtualization, that is not what excites me.

First of all, my responsibility at Citrix is to build key product specific (XenDesktop) alliances. So, when Cisco came to us saying that their customers were asking them to support Citrix XenDesktop on Cisco UCS, I will admit that I was surprised and even a bit skeptical - not because customers wanted XenDesktop, but because I always saw VMware as the major virtualization partner for Cisco. Anyway, in our first conversation with Cisco, I needed to make sure that Cisco, a networking company, even understood the desktop market. To my surprise, our visions were perfectly aligned: users should be able to work from anywhere, anytime, using any device, while getting the same rich experience they would in the office. Fast forward a couple of months...we are together today.

To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, Citrix And Cisco Partner To Catch The Desktop Transition- The Citrix Blogs