The Citrix Blog

It's time again to share the content of CitrixBlogger.Org with the main Citrix blog space. Summarizing the content tends to reveal that the topics are very diverse. It is unclear whether this is good or bad. Most likely based on "Good to Great" standards it is not the best strategy. However, diversity often leads to interesting avenues of exploration. ...

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It has now been two years since I started blogging. Most of the early posts were based on documenting Citrix history. More recent posts tend to wander many more recent Citrix related topics.Here is the list since the last update:Single User ICA Server - Citrix Product Idea 431 Idea submitted to Citrix Product Ideas Database to build single user version of ICA.ICA Stream ...

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From time to time it seems necessary to link Citrixblogger.org to the activities going on the main Citrix blog.  Perhaps it would make more sense to deploy the posts to both sites.  At this point it seems more friendly to post once and then refer to the posts from here.Here is a list of the 10 most recent posts:Session Recovery Idea 422 Offline Access Idea 2003 Hype ...

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Here is a summary of posts from http://citrixblogger.org/PNAgent and how it never goes away http://citrixblogger.org/2008/04/17/citrix-notification-area-abuse-pnagent/Good to Great series http://citrixblogger.org/2008/04/21/good-to-great/ http://citrixblogger.org/2008/04/22/level-5-leadership/http://citrixblogger.org/2008/04/24/first-who-then-what/ http://citrixblogger.org/2008/04/28/confront-the-brutal-facts/I don't come over here very often but thought it would be worthwhile mentioning these posts. 

I've been wondering if I should mention here where I have gone. Some people think that I have stopped blogging.  This is actually not true.  I've just moved.My new address is http://citrixblogger.org based on WordPress.  The change happened about the time Citrite.org collapsed.  At that stage, this site was not fully set up yet.  I got used to my own space and now I would be ...

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There seems to be some confusion about XenDesktop relating to where it can run the workstations.  The name XenDesktop implies that it can only run with Xen but the truth is that it has been designed for running on other platforms as well.  Specifically, it can run on individual workstations (without virtualization), blade servers (also without virtualization), and virtualization servers.  The key message is that ...

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Just yesterday I wrote about a new technology from Cisco to enable people to meet over great distances. Today I discovered that Amazon has released its new product called Kindle. There has been a dream for a number of years to produce a device that would be similar to a book but yet be electronic.

Back in January I wrote a post titled Telepresence which covered the concept of extending the Citrix model to better simulate remote environments for the sake of working together across great distances.  Recently I attended a Gartner conference in Sydney where Cisco was demonstrating a solution which far exceeded anything I had seen before.  Cisco