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The scoop on Remote PC
Hello and good Friday to you! Just a quick introduction in case we have not been properly introduced. I've been at Citrix for going on 8 years now, and before that I was in various IT sysadmin functions as well as a customer of Citrix for 12 years prior to joining Citrix. In those almost 8 years, I've been a Sales Engineer, a Technology Specialist supporting all ...
Introducing “Windsor”: a new xen-based virtualization architecture
Here in the XenServer R&D group I'm working on a new open-source, xen-based, virtualisation architecture (code-named "Windsor"). The goal is to exploit the awesome capabilities of the xen hypervisor to make a next-generation platform for IaaS cloud computing. Why do I love xen? Xen was originally created in the University of Cambridge Computer Lab's xenoserver project, whose goal was: to build a public infrastructure for wide-area distributed computing. This ...
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 ...
The 5 amazing things I learned about XenDesktop today – My Synergy Diary Day 4
I am here in San Francisco all this week attending Summit and Synergy. So I've decided to keep a diary of my time here so I can share my experiences of the sessions I attend and the people I meet.Day 2 of Synergy and the conference center is now in full swing with lots of sessions going on. The day started off with 2nd ...
Moving into the Cloud Era at Citrix Synergy San Francisco
It’s a beautiful day here in San Francisco. While there isn’t a cloud in the sky, it’s certainly all about the cloud here at Citrix Synergy! With a record-breaking 6,500 attendees from 50 countries, the sky is the limit when it comes to the energy and excitement about cloud computing.There is so much amazing information to absorb at Synergy each year, it can be challenging ...
The 5 amazing things I learned about XenDesktop today – My Synergy Diary Day 3
I am here in San Francisco all this week attending Summit and Synergy. So I've decided to keep a diary of my time here so I can share my experiences of the sessions I attend and the people I meet.Day 1 of Synergy and the conference center is now packed with the arrival of our customers. There is a great buzz around with colleagues ...
Synergy San Francisco 2012 – Höhepunkte der Keynote
Mark Templeton beginnt seine Keynote mit einer Reihe von Produktupdates:Citrix VDI-in-a-Box: Das neue XenDesktop Lizenz Upgrade Programm ist für alle VDI-in-a-Box Kunden, die ihre Farm weiter skalieren möchten und VDI-in-a-Box auf XenDesktop upgraden möchten. Citrix VDI-in-a-Box hat kürzlich den Best of Interop 2012 Award in der Kategorie “Cloud Computing & Virtualization” gewonnen.Auch bei AppDNA gibt es News. Der Countdown für den Support von Windows XP ...
Project Avalon: Automating Windows app and desktop delivery
By now you've heard the exciting news about Project Avalon - the next generation platform for delivering apps, data and desktops as cloud services. In this announcement, Citrix has detailed how we will integrate technologies like CloudStack, XenDesktop and CloudPortal to create an unprecedented system for the delivery of apps and desktops as services for both public cloud providers and Enterprises who want to run ...
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, ...
Project Avalon: A Giant Step in Cloud Transformation
Cloud computing is a major transformational force in enterprise IT today. Market leaders such as Apache CloudStack or Amazon Web Services have ushered in a new class of cloud infrastructure that is low cost, highly scalable, and easy to manage. By adopting cloud infrastructure, enterprises are able to take advantage of the same type of data center technology developed by Internet companies such as Google, ...