Derek Thorslund
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 ...
Lots of HDX announcements at Synergy this week
Today is the final day of Synergy 2012 in San Francisco and if you weren't able to attend the conference you may not have heard all the news around HDX, the high definition experience technologies that we build into XenDesktop, XenApp, VDI-in-a-Box and the Citrix Receiver. Thanks to Citrix TV, you can view my seminar on What's New With HDX? at your leisure. You'll learn ...
“Lync is our phone system”
In my customer conversations, several people have told me that Microsoft Lync has become their phone system. They no longer have a PBX. They use Lync 2010 for all their voice calls, with the Lync client hosted on XenDesktop 5.5/5.6 or VDI-in-a-Box and accessed from the Citrix Receiver.A partner in the Nordics told me they’ve noticed this trend especially in the SMB space. Last month ...
Cisco VXC 6215 offers optimized UC for XenDesktop
As organizations adopt webcams in ever increasing numbers, optimized solutions that offload CPU-intensive video processing from the VDI server to the user device offer a significant advantage. Cisco has just announced that they are now shipping a VXI Unified Communications (UC) firmware upgrade for the VXC 6215 thin client that enables peer-to-peer voice and video. Citrix XenDesktop is the first VDI product to be supported ...
Cisco VXC softphone for XenDesktop now shipping
Cisco has announced General Availability of the VXC 4000 softphone ("software appliance") for optimized VoIP communications with XenDesktop. This makes Cisco the first major unified communications vendor to ship a softphone that uses the Citrix Virtual Channel SDK to implement an architecture that shifts all media processing to the user device.The VXC 4000 is part of Cisco's Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) solution. It uses an optimized ...
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 ...
Learn about HDX 3D Pro while I practice my Danish
If you will be anywhere near Copenhagen on November 1st, you’ll have a great opportunity to learn all about XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro and XenServer GPU Passthrough, Citrix’s market leading solution for delivering high-end 3D professional graphics applications (CAD/CAM, PACS, GIS, etc.) over both LAN and WAN connections. This event is being hosted by Arrow ECS and will feature speakers from Citrix (yours truly), Arrow ...
Who needs an Optimization Pack for Google Earth?
If you’ve used Google Earth without a graphics card, you’ve probably noticed that its built-in software rasterizer isn’t the greatest. Without hardware acceleration, Google Earth generates artifacts that result in reduced image quality. And performance is a bit sluggish, too. That’s why we’ve introduced the XenDesktop HDX Optimization Pack for Google Earth. Now you can enjoy excellent image quality and responsiveness without the cost of ...
Get up-to-speed on HDX at Synergy Barcelona
The pace of innovation on HDX -- our high definition user experience technologies -- is so fast that it can be a challenge to keep up with all of the newest enhancements, even if you live and breathe this stuff as I do! Happily, I will be joined on stage at Synergy in Barcelona by Juan Rivera, illustrious HDX guru and tweeter, who knows this ...
HDX 3D Pro takes another leap forward
With the recent introduction of XenDesktop 5.5, our HDX 3D Pro technology for delivering professional graphics has taken another giant step forward. 3D Pro led the way in remoting high-end OpenGL and DirectX applications when it was released two years ago. We focused first on building an architecture capable of efficiently rendering very large and complex 3D models (hundreds of thousands or even millions of ...