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NetScaler 10 – A Landmark Release with 100s of New Features

NetScaler 10 is a remarkable release which makes world’s best Internet delivery platform the most advanced Cloud Network platform. While Enterprises are transforming their Datacenters to Cloud they need the application acceleration and availability requirements to be taken care of. And beyond that there are several visibility, security and scalability aspects which need to be looked at while they move to Cloud.Talk about Cloud or ...

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XenClient Use Case Series: Simplify Management of Corporate Desktop Images

When was the last time you heard an IT admin saying that their job is so much easier now or how they love their job? No doubt an IT admin job function is both expansive and unique to the environment that they are in. A certain segment of the IT administrator community is focused on building, rolling out, and managing corporate desktop images across laptops ...

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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 ...

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How Organizations Around the World Deployed XenDesktop with Ease in 2011 using Sanbolic Melio

Happy New Year Everyone!For my first post of the new year, I wanted to provide a brief synopsis of what Citrix XenDesktop customers were able to achieve in 2011 using Sanbolic's Melio Distributed Data Management software.Hundreds of Citrix customers throughout the world got started with XenDesktop Pilots/PoCs very quickly (within days, not weeks or months), with less effort and with lower upfront cost. After completing successful Pilots/PoCs, ...

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Citrix XenClient 2.1 released, download it now, attend the webinar to learn even more!

At our Synergy Barcelona show in October, we announced XenClient 2.1 which is an update to XenClient 2 that includes a number of amazing new product enhancements and improvements. Today I am delighted to announce that it’s officially released and available for download.Citrix XenClient is the next evolution in local virtual desktops that takes a fundamentally different approach to client virtualization leading to blazing fast ...

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From Wow to How: Virtual Desktops, Networking and the Cloud

Thank you to those of you who joined us on Tuesday, November 15th for “From Wow to How 2: Virtual Desktops, Networking and the Cloud” webinar.  I was excited to hear Citrix and Microsoft experts discussing the role of public, personal and private clouds, the power of virtual desktops and ways to provide a single point of authentication for users to securely access ALL applications, ...

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XenServer 5.6 and Arkeia Network Backup

Arkeia Network Backup

Robust backup protection XenServer 5.6 Enterprise Edition is a powerful virtualization product for business environments. A powerful virtualization solution in an enterprise environment requires a robust backup protection solution. Arkeia Network Backup provides a powerful, integrated backup solution for XenServer virtualization environments. The purpose of this article is to detail methodologies for providing backup protection using Arkeia Network Backup 9.0 and the latest features of XenServer ...

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XenServer 6.0 is here!

On behalf of the entire XenServer product team at Citrix, I’m pleased to announce general availability of the XenServer 6.0 release.As the “6.0” naming implies, this is a MAJOR new release of the product.  Here’s a look at what’s new:Architectural ChangesThe Boston release is based on the open-source Xen 4.1 hypervisor.   XenServer is another commercial product to ship with the Xen 4 hypervisor.  For ...

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“XenDesktop® on Hyper-V™”: From PoC to Production at Enterprise Scale with Sanbolic® Melio™

Every week I speak with IT professionals considering or in the process of evaluating Citrix® XenDesktop®. One of the things I find particularly interesting is the vast majority who plan on conducting their PoCs on Hyper-V™ also intend to start over from scratch using vSphere™ when they implement XenDesktop in production."Start over from scratch using another hypervisor," I initially thought to myself. "Why would anyone want to rebuild a virtual desktop infrastructure from scratch when they could save themselves ...

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Citrix XenClient 2 released, Find out what’s new

At Synergy this past May, we shared an amazing XenClient milestone by announcing 100,000 downloads of XenClient 1 in the first year. We also unveiled our next act with XenClient 2 as a tech preview. Close to 10,000 of you jumped at the opportunity to download and get your hands on the tech preview. Your responses and comments have been positively amazing.Today, the Citrix XenClient ...

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