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Gordon Payne

  1. “Independence Day” is coming…

    2008 ended with a resounding call for change. It became the slogan as we entered 2009 and continues to hold true across political, social, and technological themes.  Over the past few months since my last post, I'm beginning to see more and more change occurring; customers adopting virtual desktop technology as they look to really drive down the cost of desktop ownership associated with users. But let's be ...

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  2. Turbo Charge Your Access Gateway !

          In my last post, I discussed the new look and feel for our Access Gateway user experience.   Most of the focus was about the consistency of user experience across Citrix Delivery Center.   Well, the WANScaler product team has done the same with the Accelerator client plug-in. The Accelerator desktop icon is pretty cool... The real value of Accelerator is that it makes things go faster (hence ...

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  3. Cool New Secure Access

       In my last post, I discussed the importance of user experience -> It's All About The User Experience (IAATHUX)  Our Access Gateway team has come up with a new look and feel that is nice and clean.   I think this is much more intuitive and consistent with the experience across Citrix Delivery Center.   Notice that they are using plugin terminology in anticipation of App Receiver.The desktop icon ...

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  4. Virtual Desktops, Mobile VDI and Client Hypervisors – Oh My!

    I've had a great opportunity to travel the world this year and meet with a wide range of our customers and partners. I've been struck with the number of CIO's, IT Managers and Admin's who are consistent in their frustrations and questions around finding a better way to manage desktops. In one meeting with the IT team of a Japanese company with more than 100,000 ...

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