Derek Thorslund
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HDX session SYN322 doubled to 90 minutes!
Thank you! Due to the high level of interest that Synergy attendees have expressed in learning about the enhancements to our HDX technologies in the upcoming Excalibur release of Project Avalon, my Synergy session SYN322 has been doubled in length! After my initial anxiety subsided, I realized this is good news because it allows me to include more topics on the agenda, show more video/demos and invite ...
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Tech Preview of XenApp support for the Lync 2013 VDI Plug-in
As you may have already noticed, earlier this week we opened up our Tech Preview program for optimized support of the Microsoft Lync™ 2013 client to all current Citrix XenApp customers under active Subscription Advantage. This phase of the Tech Preview program gives our customers the opportunity to evaluate the Citrix Receiver Display Adapter that integrates with Microsoft's Lync™ 2013 VDI Plug-in for Windows. The ...
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How many users can share a GPU?
It is said that medieval scholars used to debate how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. These days, the more practical question I am frequently asked is, How many users can share a GPU? With today’s Tech Preview release of XenApp 6.5 OpenGL GPU Sharing to XenDesktop/XenApp Enterprise/Platinum customers under Subscription Advantage, you can now come to your own answer to the ...
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v1.2 of the Optimization Pack for Lync is now available
Release 1.2 of the HDX RealTime Optimization Pack for Microsoft Lync® is now available on the Citrix Downloads site (after logging in). This is primarily a maintenance release containing several valuable quality improvements but it also brings support for Apple Mac and Windows 8 endpoints to general availability. Please check it out and share your feedback on the Support Forum. Derek Thorslund Director of Product Management, HDX
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Avaya Unified Communications optimized for XenDesktop
Avaya has announced General Availability of their optimized Unified Communications solution for Citrix XenDesktop, Avaya VDI Communicator. As I explained in a previous blog post on HDX RealTime technologies, using a softphone that is optimized for VDI results in higher server scalability because the media processing is handled by the user device. This also ensures uncompromised audio quality and optimal bandwidth efficiency. Avaya's new solution enhances the ...
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Optimizations for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 virtual desktops
The Excalibur Tech Preview provides a glimpse at several improvements to XenDesktop’s Desktop Agent designed to provide a great user experience with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 virtual desktops. HDX technologies are important to the delivery of new generation Windows desktops and Windows 8 style apps because DirectX graphics technology has become the new norm. Excalibur offers a choice of software-based (CPU) rendering or hardware-based ...
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CAD-at-a-distance is now a reality
Can you really do serious work from a regular desktop or notebook computer (or even a tablet) while your 3D CAD software is running on a machine in a data center thousands of miles away? Evan Yares, Senior Editor of 3D CAD Tips at WTWH Media, has been researching this topic and has written a very helpful article that discusses some real-life examples and reviews how ...
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Release 1.1 of the Optimization Pack for Microsoft Lync
Last week at Synergy Barcelona we announced version 1.1 of the HDX RealTime Optimization Pack for Microsoft® Lync®. The new release, now available on our Downloads page, rounds out this solution for delivering the Microsoft Lync client from XenDesktop and XenApp with several great enhancements. The marquee feature of the release is support for Enterprise Voice. Enterprise Voice is Microsoft’s term for PBX/PSTN integration. A "Select ...
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New NVIDIA VGX K2 card a great fit for HDX 3D
Citrix and NVIDIA have been collaborating since 2008 on graphics hardware acceleration for virtualized 3D applications. The latest news from this collaboration is the release of the NVIDIA VGX K2 card, which can be used with XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 HDX 3D Pro for increased server scalability when delivering high-end design applications to the most demanding users. It also provides a new option for XenApp 6.5 ...
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Reinventing HDX Adaptive Display for mobile workers
One of the secrets behind Citrix’s success in delivering 3D graphics and video over limited bandwidth connections is how we dynamically adjust to the network and the endpoint to optimize the user experience. This is what we call Adaptive Display. Our HDX engineers are working on further enhancements to Adaptive Display for mobile use cases as part of the Project Avalon Excalibur release, and the ...