August 10, 2011 — In the third Emerging Technologies session of day three, Citrix service provider program head Scott Swanburg talked about the desktop as a service and how it benefits service providers and the SMB market. Titled “Desktop as a Service – Evolving the Hosted Experience”, Swanburg’s presentation gave a glimpse at how DaaS offers a huge opportunity for cloud service providers by offering brand uniqueness, increase subscriber loyalty and increase bottom line profits.
July 14, 2011 — When The Rolling Stones released Get Off of My Cloud in 1965, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sang that two was a crowd on a cloud. In 2011, it seems many disagree with that assertion, as earlier this week cloud technology provider Citrix acquired open source cloud software developer Cloud.com.
