Results for: FlexCast delivery technology in plain English

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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Webinar QandA: Using Desktop Virtualization to Drive Business Agility and Growth

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our webinar "Using Desktop Virtualization to Drive Business Agility and Growth". In case you missed the event, you can watch the replay here - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/882288713 (you will need Windows Media Player 9 or higher to view the presentation). There were quite a few questions posted during the live event that we did not have time to answer so ...

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Cisco and Citrix partner to further enhance the desktop virtualization ecosystem

Uhh.... what!? Is probably the first reaction that most people will have when they first read about the newly formed partnership between Citrix and Cisco collaborating to combine all the benefits of Citrix XenDesktop, with all the power of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). Well at least that was my instinctive reaction when I first heard the idea proposed internally followed by um, what ...

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Explaining XenClient to Our Friends at VMware

The buzz around XenClient at last week's Citrix Synergy conference in San Francisco was simply amazing. Customers on the show floor were excited. Partners like Intel, Dell, HP, Microsoft and McAfee talked extensively about its significance. And thousands of IT pros flooded our download sites to get their hands on the XenClient Express test kit to start giving us their early feedback. Just about everyone who ...

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XenDesktop 4 is here!

Today's the big day. November 16, 2009. XenDesktop 4 is here! The final XD4 software has been posted to the Downloads page on MyCitrix and both Evaluation and Retail licenses are now available. Likewise, final XD4 documentation has been published on our eDocs site. So I'd like to publicly congratulate our Engineering team for delivering a truly outstanding product release.  The enhancements in XenDesktop 4, summarized ...

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How To Integrate Applications with Virtual Desktops

Now that XenDesktop 4 includes numerous ways to deliver virtual desktops, (Greater description of the FlexCast technology), we need to take a look at how those applications are integrated into: Hosted/Shared desktops Hosted VM-based desktops (VDI) Hosted Blade PC desktops Local Streamed desktops Virtual Apps to ...

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FlexCast delivery technology in plain English

Now that XenDesktop 4 is a few days old and people are starting to digest the many new capabilities of the product, I thought I'd spend a little time what exactly "FlexCast™ delivery technology" means. I find that it helps me to think of FlexCast more as a strategy for delivering desktops, than as a specific technology. It's about thinking of all your virtual desktop ...

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