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Juan Rivera

  1. What do you need to know about HDX Ready System on a Chip (SoC)

    By Juan Rivera · Published on 6 months ago · 3 Comments

    Last week at Synergy we announced the HDX Ready SoC initiative. We listed a bunch of partners who will be participating in the program. We also showcased two vendors who are building their own HDX Ready SoC reference implementations.I realize that trying to explain this during the keynote in just a few minutes is hard since we don’t get to dig deep into the technical ...

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  2. Announcing HDX Monitor 1.2 for XenDesktop

    By Juan Rivera · Published on 1 year ago · No Comments

    The HDX Monitor 1.2 adds support for XenDesktop 5 FullArmor policies and new HDX capabilities. It also introduces a new set of features.ENHANCED REPORTING WITH GRAPHS The new report includes performance graphics along side with all the policy and session information. It also has a new icon in the main page which highlights how many errors or warnings were detected. The report can be saved as ...

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  3. Do you need 32-bit color support in XenDesktop?

    By Juan Rivera · Published on 2 years ago · 8 Comments

    A number of people have asked me whether XenDesktop can deliver applications in 32-bit color. Typically, this question reflects confusion around the difference between color depth and transparency. The false assumption is that 32-bit color must be better than 24-bit color. So what is 32-bit color and how does XenDesktop handle it?What surprises many people is that 32-bit color and 24-bit color actually deliver the ...

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  4. HDX MediaStream for Flash content fetching

    By Juan Rivera · Published on 2 years ago · 14 Comments

    Client side content fetchingBy default when redirecting the execution of Flash content to the client, the Flash content is fetch from the client directly to the web server. This includes swf files as well as images, movies and any other type of resource that the Flash application requests. The following shows a diagram on how that works:There is still communication between the end point and ...

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  5. How many protocols does it take to deliver a great user experience?

    By Juan Rivera · Published on 2 years ago · 26 Comments

    PCoIP is VMware's latest attempt at delivering a decent user experience for a virtual desktop. After failed attempts with RDP, Sun Ray, RGS and TCX, VMware View 4 is betting that a software version of the PCoIP protocol will deliver the great user experience customers demand from a VDI solution.I've been in the virtualization business for many years. Currently I lead the HDX technology for ...

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  6. HDX Learning Series – SuperCache

    By Juan Rivera · Published on 2 years ago · No Comments

    SuperCache is part of the HDX IntelliCache technology stack. SuperCache role is to optimize the delivery of graphics and images when users are moving content up and down.A typical use case for SuperCache is a user reading a Word document. When the user scrolls down the document, SuperCache is able to detect areas in the document that have just moved up. Instead of resending those ...

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  7. HDX Learning Series – Queuing and Tossing

    By Juan Rivera · Published on 2 years ago · 9 Comments

    Q&T is a key component in the HDX Broadcast technology stack for optimizing the delivering application and desktop virtualization over a wide area network. It intelligently analyzes the queue of drawing commands and omits those that are not needed to provide an accurate, responsive display to the user. By optimizing what commands need to be sent, this saves bandwidth on the network, as well as ...

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  8. HDX Learning Series – Thinwire Virtual Display Adapter

    By Juan Rivera · Published on 2 years ago · 1 Comment

    Thinwire is one of the cornerstone components in the HDX technology stack for delivering application virtualization. It is responsible for remoting 2D graphics across the network efficiently to provide a rich user experience. This component has been part of XenApp for many years. Many of the HDX technologies like image acceleration, progressive display, queuing and tossing and super cache are built on top of the ...

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  9. DID YOU KNOW – Multiple tabs and Diagnostics with HDX MediaStream for Flash

    By Juan Rivera · Published on 2 years ago · 1 Comment

    Multi-tab Browser SupportOne of the limitations in the trial release of HDX MediaStream for Flash is that only one tab per browser process can be accelerated. This is a bigger issue in Internet Explorer 7 where all tabs run in the same process. In Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) some tabs run in different process.But there is a way to force IE8 to run all tabs ...

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  10. DID YOU KNOW – HDX MediaStream for Flash Supports Window Scaling

    By Juan Rivera · Published on 2 years ago · No Comments

    The Citrix Receiver desktop plug-in or Desktop Receiver (both used with XenDesktop) allow scaling the remote desktop to any viewable size. HDX MediaStream for Flash supports this scaled mode as well. The Flash content can be scaled to the appropriate size with minimal impact on performance. It even allows you to play videos in scaled mode without affecting the frames per second. Check this feature ...

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