ERP systems tend to outlast the IT professionals who implement them, causing headaches for the CIOs who are subsequently brought it to integrate and upgrade them -- and manage the business side's changing expectations.

The talk of CloudWorld this week was VMware's acquisition of SpringSource. The top-of-mind chatter focused on the price: $400 million plus, a very large sum for a company doing perhaps $25 million in revenues. Certainly there was a good bit of envy in this type of conversation. And, of course, the fact that SpringSource is an open source company further makes the number even more eye-watering.

In a bid to bring virtualisation into mainstream and make it pervasive, Citrix is looking to bring the benefits of cloud computing to data centres.In order to bring the economics and flexibilities of the cloud to the data centre, Citrix at its user show in Las Vegas, has announced a string of new products. 

The clarion call at Citrix’s annual customer and partner event is technology simplification and yielding to the forces of consumerisation.Citrix Synergy, which brings together virtualisation, networking and application delivery together, got underway here in Las Vegas today. MGM Grand’s arena, which fills up to capacity normally during boxing matches, was crowded with the virtualisation vendor’s partners and customers, making it the largest ever Synergy event.

Citrix Systems, a provider of application delivery infrastructure says the latest addition to its Citrix Delivery Centre product array, the Citrix XenDesktop 3 will not only help it to deliver high definition experiences  with enhanced support for multimedia, but also help organisations to be far more flexible and reduce desktop management costs in a virtualised environment. CNME?s Manda Banda spoke to Antoine Aguado, Regional Director at Citrix Systems Middle East region to find out the strategies the vendor has in the desktop virtualisation space.