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Citrix Alliance Partners Come in Force to Synergy SF 2012

While it amazes me, this is actually my SIXTH U.S. Citrix Synergy event (of course counting the show previously known as iForum).  And even after I thought there’s no way to top the previous year, the amount of support we have from our alliance community still grew dramatically from 2011. Of course it helps to be in extremely hot mobility and cloud markets, with industry ...

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HIMSS 2012 – Citrix will be there! Booth #4465

It’s official!  I’m headed to my first HIMSS tradeshow and it's one of the largest healthcare IT conference and exhibits in the world.Citrix will have a bigger presence this year and I’m excited about all the education we have to offer just in our booth… Booth #4465.New for this year is that you will be able to experience so many exciting demos that will let attendees ...

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Adéu Barcelona… for now!

Our Synergy debut in Barcelona is over, and rapidly becoming a distant but fond memory.  I hope you’ll agree that it was a tremendous success! I wanted to take the opportunity to thank all of you – over 4,000 customers, partners and employees – for taking the time out of your schedules to join Citrix and our business partners in Barcelona and be part of ...

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What is a desktop… and the future of VDI at Synergy Barcelona

First Things First!Now that VMWorld Las Vegas is in the rear view mirror, I've been ramping up for Synergy Barcelona by carefully reading dining reviews to make sure I carefully optimize my culinary adventures. Topping my list is Cerveceria Catalana which promises 5 star food at 2 star prices and I'm hoping "Cerveceria" translates to beer in some form. More importantly I look forward to ...

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Embrace the consumerization of IT – Citrix Receiver gives you the power to say ‘yes’

Today Citrix demonstrated Citrix Receiver for Google Chrome Notebook at Google's launch event in San Francisco (watch the replay). Citrix Receiver gives people access to their enterprise apps using any device, anywhere - enabling IT to embrace consumerization and make their employees more productive.Consumerization will force more IT change over the next few years than any other technology or trend. The phrase "consumerization of IT" ...

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Desktop Applications on Mobile Devices Part II Sample Code

My earlier blog focuses on finished applications. What if you want to write a DocFinder like application yourself. I've written a complete sample application that can get you started.The sample application includes reusable styles that you can use in your web based or WPF based applications.Please visit Citrix CDN code share site to download the sample application with complete source code ...

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Desktop Applications on Mobile Devices Part I Demos

I gave a talk at a developer conference recently. Here are some resources I used.This part contains links and information about the demonstrations.Most of my demonstrations are publicly available at our FREE cloud demo environment. Please follow the links to try the demo on the devices you are interested in.If your time is limited, I'd suggest you at least try these demos.Without ...

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Mobilizing Applications Part 3 – Make Your App Mobile-Friendly

Most desktop apps are designed with multiple Window Pane's to organize data and make it consumable without forcing a users eyes to scan from one side of a monitor to another. In many cases these Pane sizes are discretionary for the developer or already user adjustable. Given that, why not make the Window Pane sizes easy to consume on a mobile device ? It ...

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Mobile commerce with XenApp

Are desktop style mobile interfaces useful for business? I was browsing the iTunes business apps section the other day. Two of the top ten free apps are remote desktop viewers. I asked a few of my colleagues what they thought about this and got back responses wondering why anybody would care. How often were these apps really used? Were these just cool demos and a ...

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Nirvana Device Search (Celio Corp Redfly Mobile Companion)

Day 2 of my search for the Nirvana Deviceat CTIA 2008 ended a few hours ago, and we have some cool products to talk about.  Let's see how they do when we replace my OQO Model 2 with Nirvana Device candidates from the show. This entry focuses on one of our newest Citrix Alliance partners, Celio Corp and their recent product launch of the Redfly Mobile Companion ...

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