Results for: The 2009 Challenge
HDX across XenDesktop, XenApp and VDI-in-a-Box
One of many accomplishments of our Engineering team that makes me proud is the high level of HDX feature parity across XenDesktop VDI, XenDesktop/XenApp hosted shared desktops, XenApp hosted apps and our new VDI-in-a-Box product. As we've designed new HDX capabilities and enhanced existing ones we've made it a goal to develop them as cross-platform technologies, and this has essentially been achieved. Occasionally I've been ...
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, ...
What do the ESPYs have to do Cloud Service Providers?
During the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles the ESPYs were taking place at the same venue downtown. For my International readers the ESPYs are the annual sports awards sponsored by ESPN sports network. Every year the Arthur Ash Courage in sports award is given out. This year it was given to an American Boxer, Dewey Bozella, who had been wrongly accused of murder and ...
Citrix Synergy – Recommended Sessions for Government Attendees
We are excited to have almost 200 government customers and partners in attendance at this year's Synergy. For those government customers attending Synergy, there are plenty of great speakers and exciting announcements that we are sure will peak your interest.To help you make the best use of your time at the event, here are some of the sessions that the Citrix Public ...
Profile Manager – Cross Platform Settings?
Citrix Profile Manager is pretty happy with itself being a reliable and solid user profile management solution. One of the pure beauties of the technology is that it requires very little admin interaction. Install, configure and then "leave it alone"!By keeping deep application knowledge out of the solution, the profile management system can be an "install and forget" component. This is good stuff ...
Far from the Madden Crowd
For those with a handy QR Code Reader, read no further! Here's a beautiful piece of motel art for Brian that says it all:It must be that time of the month over at BrianMadden.com. That is, the time of the month when click-through rates for advertisers are pretty low because - let's face it - it's difficult for Brian come up with new stuff ...
Fastest way to update PVS Target Device Software With XenServer
Guest Post by Trond Eirik Haavarstein - Author of http://www.xenappblog.com. The views expressed here are mine alone and have not been authorized by, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Citrix.With every new release of Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) we are challenged with the process of upgrading the Target Device Software on the Virtual Machines (VM). There are three options; you can use Reverse ...
Getting (you) to Cloud
I had a fascinating conversation a few weeks ago with Frank Gillett of Forrester Research, who has taken a counter-culture approach to analyzing the adoption of cloud computing. He is watching the growth of what he calls the "Personal Cloud": Our adoption as individual consumers of cloud computing is transforming both clouds and our personal lives. Very different, of course, to the ...
Performance with a Little Help from our Friends
There is an interesting change afoot in virtualized networking. Both VMware and XenServer are boasting richer network stacks, with the goal of simplifying the management of policies (firewalling, QoS etc) for each virtual interface in a dynamic virtualized world.In our case, the new Open vSwitch has been in beta for a while and will ship in our next release, Cowley. Changing ...
App Streaming – Faking out RadeRun
I am presently debugging a failed application launch of MS Access 2007 under Citrix Application Streaming and it's "falling back" to server delivered. Every single one of the other MS Office applications are running without issue. Something is broken in the launch sequence, and just for MS Access. How to diagnose?Some time back I wrote an article about directly using RadeRun to ...