This is a time when the United States is busy opening two conferences, one from the virtual factory Shangshijie's Citrix Synergy Conference, the other is the storage giant's EMC world. Even we see a head-on collision of "virtualization, the Web, and cloud computing" from the key words of the Citrix Conference.
Although EMC world is more store-oriented, the Synergy conference is centered on desktop virtualization, and the vendors are talking about a common point in the "cloud", the concept of the booming.
As the EMC global practice director, Edward Newman, points out, "Whether companies choose cloud computing is no longer a problem, but the key is when cloud computing is deployed." "Clearly, EMC's assertion accelerates the formal launch of cloud-related products." In this EMC world, EMC has officially launched a private cloud-oriented product called Vplex, and is leveraging the unified management of cloud computing.
Vplex is a front-end virtual storage technology, whose main function is to optimize data access and data movement, and to integrate Remote Storage nodes. Most importantly, the application of virtualization technology enables it to achieve cross-platform data exchange, including its ability to support IBM's San Volume Controller (SVC) to achieve heterogeneous management unification. Currently, EMC has launched two Vplex products, EMC Vplex Local and Vplex Metro, which are designed for Vplex cluster data management within and within hundreds of kilometres of data centers.
According to EMC, virtualization and cloud can be translated into "easily accessible and used products", Vplex is the product of this philosophy.
On the other hand, Si Jie, held in San Francisco's Citrix Synergy 2010 conference, continued to talk about their desktop virtualization software. The theme of the conference is "virtualization, networking and cloud computing synergy," which covers the core idea of Si Jie, that is, from virtualization, network, and ultimately achieve the goal of cloud computing synergy.
Jie also released a new client-side virtualization solution called Xenclient, developed in collaboration with Intel Corporation, which allows centralized management of virtualized desktops, running directly on corporate laptops and PCs, even when disconnected from the network. Citrix Xenclient represents an important milestone in this area, designed to provide the highest level of performance, security, and isolation through a bare-metal architecture and integration with the Intel VPRO hardware virtualization technology.
While Si Jie is talking about desktop virtualization, desktop virtualization can be another manifestation of cloud computing. So, as the title says, once again we see the company's ambitions on cloud computing, and once again, the cloud has received big orders from manufacturers to sell their wares.