Results for: XenDesktop 5 - A First Look
Meet Citrix Geek of the Week – Stephane Thirion
Greetings Community Comrades!The “Geek of the Week” blog series highlights one of our exceptional community members each week, so you can get to know more about them, and what they do in and for the community! Our Geek of the Week is:Stephane Thirion CTO/Owner - IT Architect Activlan Paris, France What was your very first IT project and what was your role?My first real project was back in 2001 in a ...
Citrix and NVIDIA team up on GPU hardware virtualization
Together with NVIDIA at their GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California, this morning we unveiled a technology platform for private and public clouds that combines NVIDIA’s new VGX™ virtual GPU technology with Citrix’s XenDesktop and XenServer hypervisor desktop virtualization solution. Sumit Dhawan, Citrix GM and VP, joined NVIDIA's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang on stage at the GTC keynote to introduce this breakthrough technology for ...
Citrix Alliance Partners Come in Force to Synergy SF 2012
While it amazes me, this is actually my SIXTH U.S. Citrix Synergy event (of course counting the show previously known as iForum). And even after I thought there’s no way to top the previous year, the amount of support we have from our alliance community still grew dramatically from 2011. Of course it helps to be in extremely hot mobility and cloud markets, with industry ...
Project Avalon – What does this mean to me?
In today's Synergy keynote Mark Templeton announced Project Avalon, a platform to deliver desktops and apps as cloud services. It's almost universal when we talk to customers that the topic of cloud inevitably comes up. What's interesting is to look at what cloud means to different customers and the use cases driving their need to build and/or consume cloud services. As the discussion transitions to how desktops, ...
Meet Citrix Geek of the Week – Steve Greenberg
Greetings Community Comrades!I thought it would be fun to start a “Geek of the Week” blog series, to highlight our exceptional community members out there, so you can get to know more about them, and what they do in and for the community! Our inaugural Geek of the Week is:Steve Greenberg Founder and Principal Consultant Thin Client Computing LLC Scottsdale, Arizona! What is your current role in the technology industry?I am ...
How-To: Create a JITC test CAC environment for XenDesktop/XenApp
You may have read a post by my colleague Faisal Iqbal about how Citrix supports Smartcard Authentication from a CAC/PIV perspective. The gist of it is that we do support it in many different scenarios. While taking our word on it is all well and good, we often get asked to help support test environments that are not connected to production networks, and invariably these ...
Is your VDI implementation failing? Well, you obviously don’t know how to party! Part 2:
AppDNA - The Mixologist with a drink for everyoneLast week in part 1 of this VDI implementation blog series I introduced the premise that planning and executing a successful VDI implementation is on par with planning and executing a successful party. We talked about segmenting your users to find out and the analogy that planning a VDI implementation, you need to know what your users ...
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 ...
Automating PVS based Virtual Desktops with Windows Powershell!
I was recently asked to participate in a project, in which, the customer wanted the entire virtual desktop provisioning process to be automated based on pre-populated computer objects in AD. I’m excited to share all I’ve learned with the hopes that it helps to demonstrate the level of automation that can be achieved with Citrix products and powershell.Business DriversProvision hundreds of virtual desktops in minutes ...
Citrix Summit Accelerates Business Innovation in the Cloud Era
As business and IT transform in the Cloud Era, having the right skills is more critical than ever to guide your customers and help them realize the benefits of cloud computing, virtualization and network optimization. That’s why it’s time to sign up for at Citrix Summit. Instructor-led Learning Labs are the most sought after sessions at Summit and fill up very quickly. Classes offer powerful, comprehensive ...