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XenApp Farm in the cloud
Scalable XenApp in the CloudI previously posted how to create a XenApp 5.0 server and a XenApp 6.0 server in Amazon EC2. A one-off server is good for starters, but you might eventually want to build a "scalable" XenApp farm in the cloud. Having a XenApp farm that scales requires that the components of XenApp be broken out and install on their own servers. ...
Security Groups in Amazon EC2
For XenApp farms in EC2In a previous post, I talked about how to build a XenApp Farm in Amazon EC2. I was reminded through a comment on the post, that a XenApp Farm usually is deployed with certain degrees of security separation between the servers. Having left that out of the Deployment Guide, I decided to create an additional deployment guide that shows ...
XenApp in the Cloud? Heck Yes
I frequently hear from customers that today's clouds aren't "enterprise class". Indeed at a Geek Speak event earlier this week, the majority of the debate focussed on the key issue that our CTPs have with today's IaaS clouds: They don't believe that they can get today's enterprise apps to run in the cloud, and they have concerns about availability, security and so on.My view ...
Production XenApp in EC2
XenApp in the CloudCitrix XenApp™ is the on-demand application delivery solution that enables any Windows application to be virtualized, centralized and managed in the datacenter, and now the cloud, and instantly delivered as a service to users anywhere on any device.XenApp reduces the cost of application management by up to 50 percent, improves application and data security and enables you to Simplify IT, Optimize ...
Cloud Economics 101 Part 5 – Name Your Price for EC2 .. Priceline.com for IT
Amazon has recently announced the availability of spot based pricing that can dramatically reduce the hourly price of cloud computing. While this is not relevant for many scenarios including running user facing apps like production XenApp, it does provide an indication of future pricing models for Cloud infrastructure and its available now. There are restrictions on the new offering but it really does work. ...
Amazon VPC with Citrix C3
Amazon announces VPC with support for Citrix C3What is Amazon Web Services? Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS customers can requisition compute power, storage, and other services-gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them. In AWS, customers pay only for ...
Citrix C3 Lab in Amazon EC2 Enables the Cloud to Save You Time and Money Now
In the early days of virtualization most developers and IT Pro's would not trust deploying production workloads in Virtual Machines. However, as soon as it was apparent how easy it was to test apps and configurations plus prototype new environments prior to production, virtualization became a defacto standard for test and dev environments. Over time virtualization improved in performance, robustness and management to the point ...
IBM is also on Amazon EC2 cloud now
Two days ago IBM announced the availability of 4 of their products on Amazon EC2 cloud. Check it out here.It's another indication that cloud computing is gaining momentum. If you look closely though only virtual machines for development and demo purposes are available now. But IBM says production version is going to be supported too. The fact that IBM, the enterprise company, is trying EC2 ...
How to get your own Citrix XenApp server in EC2 for 12 cents & 15 min.
OK, actually it's 12.5 cents and it might take you a few minutes longer, but compared to the traditional methods of building/configuring servers the cost and time savings is dramatic. It is now possible to launch a pre-built XenApp image in the Amazon Web Service offering called EC2. The image includes XenApp 5.0 on Windows 2003 Server ready to run and is accessible as an ...