Highlights from Burton Group's Head-to-Head comparison
Citrix XenDesktop 4.0 Platinum
Judgment: "Suitable for departmental-level deployments and for SME-class organizations."
Strengths:
- Flexible delivery
- Supports multiple virtualization servers
- Strong user-experience feature set
- Diverse endpoint OS support
- Strong WAN performance
- Rich supporting ecosystem
Weaknesses:
- Security logging and auditing of administrative actions
- 3 year support for entire product portfolio VMware View 4.01 Premier Edition
- Role-based access control or security hardening guidelines
- Enterprise management integration
- No user application self service
- Low-bandwidth WAN support
- Supports only VMware backend
- Management console scalability limited
- Win7 Guest OS support
- Rich integration with VMware vSphere
- Solid but incomplete core feature base
- PC-over-IP performance better than expected
- Simple deployment
- Active directory integration
- Enterprise management
Judgment: "Not...an enterprise-class SHVD platform"
Note: "Upcoming VMware View 4.5 (in beta) release satisfies the required feature shortcomings." Weaknesses:SOURCE: Chris Wolf, Burton Group
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