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Join us at TechEdge San Francisco 2012 – Troubleshooting Tools, Methodologies and Best Practices

Need the best and latest information for troubleshooting/optimizing your XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer or NetScaler products. Then don't miss TechEdge San Francisco 2012 hosted by Citrix Technical Support's top experts from the Escalation engineering team. Over the years, customers have said this is the event for learning the latest troubleshooting tools, methodologies and fixes for your desktop virtualization, server virtualization and network optimization without hearing all ...

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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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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6

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A complete walkthrough It is not very often I get to review a book, so I was delighted when Packt Publishing asked me to review the book Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6. Having spent the last four years of my tenure at Citrix building XenApp machines and farms put me in a position to at least review and comment on the work. ...

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Automated XenApp CloudFormation

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Using Powershell & Amazon CloudFormation I first started building proof of concepts in the Amazon cloud over two years ago. You can read about all of them here. We've come a long way with the recent developments we have been working on with Amazon. Since then, Amazon has released some new tools that make a datacenter in the cloud very apetizing. Recent tools now allow ...

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HDX Tech Preview available for XenDesktop and XenApp customers

This morning at Synergy we are announcing the immediate availability of an exciting Tech Preview of new HDX technologies available to existing XenDesktop and XenApp customers under Subscription Advantage. (Available Here!)Enabling our customers to work from anywhere with any device, from branch offices to personal clouds is embedded into the DNA of Citrix. Over the past 18 months, Citrix has been hard at work ...

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XenApp Deployment Strategies

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XenApp Servers ExplainedProper farm design is the most important aspect to having a well performing, scalable farm. This post examines the architecture and design of the Citrix XenApp solution as the number of users/servers requiring applications or desktop access scales.XenApp Server RolesXenApp farms have two types of servers: infrastructure servers and worker servers. Worker servers are dedicated to the role of hosting published ...

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Guarantee Availability and Scale for XenApp and XenDesktop Deployments

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Citrix Tech TalkIn this TechTalk, you will learn about proven methods for delivering 100% availability to any XenApp or XenDesktop Infrastructure, while simultaneously providing the foundation for rapid growth. XenApp and XenDesktop are ground breaking technologies. They are even more amazing when front-ended by a NetScaler to provide Enterprise scalability and performance. If Virtual Desktops and Apps are on your roadmap, you need to tune ...

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Just Announced – “XenDesktop 4 SP1 is the First Enterprise-Ready SHVD Platform”

At Citrix Synergy back in May, Burton Group, a division of Gartner, introduced their "Server Hosted Virtual Desktop Evaluation Criteria" (this is a blog - you'll need a client login to access the document). If you aren't already familiar with it, it consists of over 100 detailed solution criteria broken into required, preferred and optional categories. In a session at Synergy, Burton compared XenDesktop 4 ...

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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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Xen is Dead! Long Live Xen!

I was recently on a panel in Stockholm moderated by Brian Madden and Alessandro Perilli where, with Mike Neil, Avi Kivity, and Lance Berc, I enjoyed an engaging discussion on the future of virtualization.  The event was a great opportunity for the audience to dig into different products and vendor strategies and Brian and Alessandro allowed none of us to wriggle away from the real issues.  Definitely the ...

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