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Seamless Physical and Virtual Desktop Management with XenDesktop 5.6 and Microsoft System Center 2012
For many IT organizations, the move to desktop virtualization, with all its benefits, can be a bit daunting. There's a lot of new "stuff" to learn; new storage and networking infrastructure to manage, new types of end-point devices, and new ways to build and manage desktops. Although these new ways to manage desktops have many advantages, they are nonetheless new and that means that IT ...
CloudPortal Services Manager and Rainmaker – Better Together
There has been some excellent feedback about Project Rainmaker from those who have had a chance to see it. I am very happy with the response so far and hope that we can get more people involved and excited about this new technology.One question that has come up from several people is: how do CloudPortal Services Manager (formerly known as Cortex) and Rainmaker fit together? ...
VPC Everywhere
Virtual Applications Everywhere Amazon recently announced VPC as generally available in every AWS Region, along with some additional features. If you search back through my posts, you will see a lot of work has been done getting XenApp into the Amazon cloud. We have pre-built XenApp AMI's for use in EC2, as well as VPC. VPC is the best of cloud computing because it allows you to build ...
Visit Citrix at AWS Summit 2011
If you attended Citrix Synergy 2011, you may have stopped by the Amazon booth. We had the latest in the holy-grail of cloud computing being shown off there. A completely automated generation of a XenApp farm in the Amazon VPC Cloud. If you missed it, and are attending the Amazon AWS Summit 2011 in San Francisco, you can see it in action again.Citrix will ...
Citrix Now Supports XenApp on Amazon Web Services’ Cloud
Today at Citrix Synergy we are pleased to announce Support for Citrix XenApp on Amazon Web Services' cloud platform. Companies of all sizes are now free to deliver their Windows applications and desktops from the largest, most scalable, public cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS).To make it easier for our joint customers to leverage the combination, we've also created some tools that make building Citrix ...
Automated XenApp CloudFormation
Using Powershell & Amazon CloudFormation I first started building proof of concepts in the Amazon cloud over two years ago. You can read about all of them here. We've come a long way with the recent developments we have been working on with Amazon. Since then, Amazon has released some new tools that make a datacenter in the cloud very apetizing. Recent tools now allow ...
How to Manage the Enterprise like a Cloud Service Provider
User account creation is a long complex and opaque process today and most system integrators have a charge to enterprises reflecting this complexity, typically between $100 and $200. Besides this visible cost there are substantial hidden costs to the customer:Length of time for users to get account access. Multiple helpdesk engagements to get everything just right. Users' initial productivity is low while they learn how to work ...
Terabit networks
The Berlin based Heinrich-Herz Institute recently published a press release announcing that their scientists were able to transfer 10.2 Terabit/s using a single wavelength fibre optic transmission, which is equivalent to transferring the content of 240 DVDs in one second (read the release here http://www.idw-online.de/pages/de/news412526).While this is cutting edge science and it will take years until products using this technology will hit the market, ...
Create An Enterprise Cloud with Citrix
When you hear the term "Cloud Computing", do you see the big, beautiful, puffy white cloud we typically see on a calm summer day or do you see a dark, menacing thunderhead that spells impending doom? Probably a little bit of both (isn't that always how life is?). Cloud Computing has great potential to provide significant savings and automation to ...