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Cloud Networking Fabric with Microsoft SCVMM 2012 and NetScaler

While Enterprises are moving from data center to the private clouds, the key differentiator is automation of the whole fabric and service management. Microsoft® System Center 2012 cloud and datacenter management solutions brings together various pieces to help deploy and manage the private and public cloud applications and infrastructure. It delivers flexible and cost effective solution with all of the cloud principles and techniques embedded, ...

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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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How to Doom a Cloud: Forget Networking

The number of clouds being built that are doomed to failure is staggering. Which is a shame because the builders are getting better by the day.Let me explain.At Citrix, we get the benefit of talking to a lot of people that are actively building clouds. They come in and talk to us about a variety of projects they are working on; from networking to VDI ...

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NetScaler for the XenDesktop\XenApp Dummy

I have been working with XenApp since the WinFrame and MetaFrame days.  Back then we had to create ALTADDR and NAT entries on the firewall to allow connections from the Internet.  Later, we moved into CSG (Citrix Secure Gateway) that allowed only 443 and a single IP address to be exposed to the Internet to access the internal Presentation Server farm.Now, the preferred method is Access ...

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A Field Guide to XenApp 6.5 Session Pre-Launch

A new feature, regardless of how stunning or life changing it may be, is only useful if you can put it into practice.  I had this issue with one of the new features of XenApp 6.5 and I thought you might like to see how I've put this together in my own deployments and why I think it should be one of the first things ...

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Citrix Applauds System Center 2012 RC Release

Citrix is particularly pleased to see the release candidate for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager being made available.  As a partner of 21 years, Citrix and Microsoft have worked together on countless projects involving each other’s solutions, and  System Center 2012 is no exception.Over the past several months, Citrix has conducted several joint testing projects with our desktop and application delivery  solutions running with System Center ...

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FIX protocol – Yes NetScaler has been good at that as well !!

FIX  protocol is the industry-driven messaging standard that is primarily deployed by global financial services sector to transact and conduct business efficiently with the least latency.  The mission of FIX is "To improve the global trading process by defining, managing, and promoting an open protocol for real-time, electronic communication between industry participants, while complementing other industry standards." Even though FIX standard's intentions were geared towards ...

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Leveraging Your Network Footprint

The path to gaining visibility and insight into an application and its underlying network has been a long standing requirement for enterprises. As a result, there have been a number of players in the application performance management space and their corresponding market size has grown considerably over the years. It's not rocket science - knowing what's happening to your applications carries both operational as well ...

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Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 – April 2011

Citrix Support is focused on ensuring Customer and Partner satisfaction with our products. One of our initiatives is to increase the ability of our Partners and Customers to leverage self-service avenues via our Knowledge Center.Find below the Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 for April 2011.Top 10 Technical ArticlesArticle Number Article TitleCTX101644 Seamless Configuration SettingsCTX368624 Troubleshooting Citrix Pass-through Authentication ...

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Load Balancing TFTP – Anything But Trivial

BackgroundIn order for Provisioning Server (PVS) to boot a target device, a "bootstrap file" needs to be made available when the device is turned on.  The bootstrap file in this case is called "ARDBP32.BIN" (the Ardence Boot Program...gotta love our roots!).  This bootstrap file contains the information needed to communicate with PVS so it can initialize the streaming process and ultimately mount the vDisk.  The ...

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