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A new Xen in the family – XenDesktop and XenApp have a sibling!
Today, Citrix introduced the world to XenMobile MDM, a new product that provides industry-leading mobile management capabilities, and the Mobile Solutions Bundle, which comprises of XenMobile MDM and CloudGateway, to deliver a complete enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution. While these new solutions offer fantastic capabilties - and the Zenprise team have done an amazing job over the last few years creating a leadership position - I ...
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NEW Tech Preview: Multi-tenant VDI Capabilities for Cloud Providers
(Before I get to the exciting news, please note that this Tech Preview is targeted at our nearly 2,000 Citrix Service Providers, who have been waiting for a way to get some of the benefits available with VDI, but have not had a cost-effective Microsoft SPLA-compliant option. If you are an enterprise customer deploying VDI, you already have tons of options with XenDesktop and VDI-in-a-Box.) I’m ...
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Thank you, OnLive Desktop. Thank you.
Wow, where to begin. Several weeks ago, OnLive launched their desktop offering at CES, and got media attention from a gaming-centric audience for connecting to a Windows desktop from an iPad. That audience apparently didn’t realize that more than 1,500 Citrix Service Providers have been doing the same thing for years, to all sorts of devices, and growing their businesses like crazy month-over-month. Then OnLive took some ...
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Multi-tenancy in Practice for Cloud Service Providers
Ashish Gujarathi just posted a blog that I think is pivotal for the hosting industry, "Designing a multi-tenant XenApp deployment." Why is it important? Not because the three models of deployment are so radical - but because most people we talk to have never thought of them as a continuum of non-mutually exclusive options before. It seems that a term like "multi-tenancy" is as confusing and ...
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Self-service Cloud Apps with Cortex Cloud Control Panel
Since we announced the acquisition of EMS-Cortex, there's been a tremendous amount of inquiries and requests for demos. So, we've lost no time scheduling a webinar for everyone to get a first taste of what Cortex Cloud Control Panel can do for your service provider business. Scheduled for April 6, 2011, the webinar will: • Explore the business needs that control panels solve and the benefits it ...
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New Adventures in Cloud App Delivery
In the Citrix blog community, most people probably recognize me as a "XenDesktop marketing guy" (especially since Harry Labana's recent post has renewed interest in a blog I wrote some time ago). After launching XenDesktop 5 and then working briefly with the outstanding XenClient team, I've moved on to another new adventure - the new Cloud App Delivery Product group. I have to admit, when I ...
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XenClient 1.0 Service Pack 1 – Come and get it!
Citrix has just released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for XenClient™, which includes over a hundred updates to the client hypervisor and the Synchronizer for XenClient. It offers user experience enhancements, expanded device compatibility, product fixes and other enhancements. Download XenClient now. This is the first update since the GA release back in September, and it was made possible by YOU. See, since the launch of XenClient, ...
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XenDesktop 5 – A First Look
I am very pleased to be able to introduce you to Citrix XenDesktop 5, announced today at Citrix Synergy in Berlin! This is a major release that comes on the heels of an incredible year of success and growth with XenDesktop 4. Many of our customers are starting to reach scale in their deployments, and XenDesktop 5 is designed to enable them to "go virtual" ...
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XenDesktop vs. View at Synergy Berlin ’10!
At Synergy Berlin next month, I'm scheduled to present the session, "XenDesktop vs. VMware View: how do they compare?" I hope to see you there! I've done a number of sessions at Citrix events, and they all have their challenges. For example: Corporate strategy sessions: Remember "Access Infrastructure?" I had one of the first sessions where we explained what it meant and how it impacted our strategy. ...
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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 ...