While Virtual Desktop Infrastructure still has growing pains to come, namely deployment, management, and allocation of compute and storage resources, Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 is a “scalable and manageable VDI” that leverages streaming applications, server virtualization, and swift tools.“Citrix has married VDI to its existing stable of application and desktop delivery mechanisms, and it continues to leverage the stellar ICA protocol to assist in speed, user experience, and manageability,” Paul Venezia writes. “If the company can continue to improve XenServer, XenDesktop could become the showcase VDI implementation. As it stands now, coupling XenDesktop with VMware VI3 is probably the best of both worlds.”Read the full review: Citrix hits the VDI high notes. Software Development