Orestes Melgarejo
Project Avalon: Automating Windows app and desktop delivery
By now you've heard the exciting news about Project Avalon - the next generation platform for delivering apps, data and desktops as cloud services. In this announcement, Citrix has detailed how we will integrate technologies like CloudStack, XenDesktop and CloudPortal to create an unprecedented system for the delivery of apps and desktops as services for both public cloud providers and Enterprises who want to run ...
Keynote “One more thing” a Viral Tool for Service Providers
In my 11-year journey at Citrix I have never seen a Synergy Keynote that was as exciting as the one Mark Templeton presided over yesterday. The event was informative and jam-packed with meaty content as new acquisitions and products blended smoothly into a coherent story about solutions for Personal, Private and Public Clouds.Mark finished the Keynote a bit late due to the massive amount of ...
Project Dorado Delivers Next Generation Cloud Desktop
This week at Synergy Barcelona, the Cloud App Delivery team at Citrix is showing off new technology – Project Dorado – that will be a game changer for cloud-hosted desktops. Our Citrix Service Provider (CSP) partners are very well aware of the benefits of delivering a cloud-based desktop solution to the thousands of customers who consume their services every day. Their customers have moved from ...
Tablets and smartphones are everywhere – Citrix Receiver turns them into valuable business tools
As we progress through Citrix Summit and Synergy week we are extremely excited about the vast array of mobile and tablet devices that are being announced or are soon-to-be released by device manufacturers. Many, like Apple's iPad, are focused on the consumer, while a few, like the Cisco Cius, Avaya Flare, HP Slate and Blackberry Playbook are more targeted at the Enterprise space. ...
Which Windows Server 2008 for XenApp Customers?
Windows Server 2003 is dominant today in Citrix XenApp environments. In fact we are currently at the peak (or nearly so) for a W2k3 installed base for Windows servers in general. As our customers look forward they will be faced with some potentially thorny issues when moving to Windows Server 2008. The main question is whether to go to the first W2k8 ...
XenApp Power and Capacity Management & Beyond
By now many of you have had a chance to kick the tires on the upcoming Power and Capacity Management feature of XenApp that is currently in its Tech Preview phase and you may have seen Sridhar's blog on the subject. What I'd like to cover here and hopefully get your feedback on is what's behind this new approach and where we are headed.First ...
XenApp Plug-in for Mac Experience
Well we have been more than hinting about it for a while now but the new XenApp Online plug-in for Mac is here! I was so excited about this that I dusted off my old Mac and decided to give it a try.Here are my first impressions. First, let's not overlook that the .ica file downloads and the annoying red-bouncing-dotted eye icon are ...
XenApp Related Sessions at Synergy 2008
As many of you have already seen, Citrix's annual Global User Conference has had some major changes this year. The first major change is that the event has been up-leveled to cover much more than the user conference but to be an industry conference around Virtualization, Networking and Application Delivery. The second major change is that the event is just around the corner - ...
XenApp! A New Name for A New Era
This has not been a very well kept secret as rumors have been posted on other blogs since Citrix Summit08 began on January 29th. But by now, it is official, the product name has changed from Citrix Presentation Server to Citrix XenApp. This is intended to better align the name with the use cases that it addresses today. "Presentation Server" was a good name for ...
To VoIP or not to VoIP
That is the question! Warning: Really quick reflexes required to dodge stones and arrows flung by ticked-off end-users at IT staff! Seriously though, recently we have received more and more people asking us to support VoIP (and even video) communications over ICA and we are researching the area aggressively as I type this. Stick with me on this blog; at the end I will ...