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The scoop on Remote PC

Hello and good Friday to you!  Just a quick introduction in case we have not been properly introduced.  I've been at Citrix for going on 8 years now, and before that I was in various IT sysadmin functions as well as a customer of Citrix for 12 years prior to joining Citrix.   In those almost 8 years, I've been a Sales Engineer, a Technology Specialist supporting all ...

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App Orchestration: Concepts

About three weeks back, we released the App Orchestration technology as part of the Cloud Provider Pack.  App orchestration enables Citrix Service Providers to manage multi-tenant, multi-farm deployments of apps and desktops as a service efficiently. To get you jump-started with app orchestration, I am starting a 10-part blog series to which key engineers of the app orchestration team will be contributing over the next few ...

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Synergy Self-paced labs: Hands-on training at your convenience

Most of the Citrix Synergy agenda items are scheduled for a specific date and time. But the Self-paced Learning Labs give you the freedom to select technical training at your convenience and learn at your own pace. These 90-minute hands-on labs offer the ultimate in flexibility: no reservations and no requirement to bring your own laptop, plus generous hours. We’re even making them available all ...

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Fast Moving Clouds

Greetings from Europa Park in Germany! Tomorrow, I’ll be taking the main stage to talk to the thousands of cloud providers at World Hosting Days. My presentation is called, “All clouds are not the same: what kind is yours?” In an industry where everyone is clamoring to offer a cloud service, the ones that will be successful and survive are the ones that can identify ...

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Thank you, OnLive Desktop. Thank you.

 Wow, where to begin.Several weeks ago, OnLive launched their desktop offering at CES, and got media attention from a gaming-centric audience for connecting to a Windows desktop from an iPad. That audience apparently didn’t realize that more than 1,500 Citrix Service Providers have been doing the same thing for years, to all sorts of devices, and growing their businesses like crazy month-over-month.Then OnLive took some ...

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No More Read-only LUNs in PVS, Sanbolic Melio Offers Consolidation, Scalability and Performance for PVS HA

While browsing the Citrix® Support Forums last week, I came across a posting that was written by a Citrix® customer who had recently upgraded his Provisioning Services™ (PVS™) farm from version 5.6 SP1 to version 6.0 and was disappointed to find out the Read-only LUN feature in PVS had been removed.In his posting, the individual explained that he had multiple PVS ...

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Desktop Transformation Done Right

We're excited to have an increasing number of customers who own Citrix XenDesktop. Unfortunately, we see some of them struggle at times with the implementation of the technology and it appears that some of you take more time to provide value to your end users than you anticipated in the beginning.The good news is that  there are some relatively simple steps you should take in ...

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Celebrate the New Year with New Citrix Receivers for Android, Windows, Chromebook and PlayBook!

I hope you had a wonderful holidays and a happy new year!  (For those of you die hard folks who may be reading this post before the New Year, then I hope you HAVE a wonderful celebration!)While you were out and hopefully not working our engineering team was hard at work releasing important updates to a number of our Citrix Receiver distributions.  A couple of ...

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Q&A from Dec13th Solution Webinar “Enterprise Benefits of Desktop Virtualization with Google Chromebooks”

Question AnswerDo you know about availability for Chromebooks with .se local characters? Yes we do have Chromebooks available with a Swedish keyboard layout.  You can purchase them from Google. - KGwill we see more chromeos options (other laptop manufacturers or desktops)? Point to event recording as this exact question was answered during event. -CMHow do you do enterprise management for the chrome os? Point to event recording as this exact question was answered during event. ...

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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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