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Peter Bats

Peter Bats is a Senior Solutions Architect, part of the World Wide Strategic Alliances organization. As part of this role he is the focal point for all technical aspects of DaaS relative to strategic alliances such as Amazon and Microsoft. He has held a variety of roles at Citrix over 10 years, including customer-facing leadership positions with Citrix Systems Engineering. Prior to joining Citrix, Peter held positions in support and engineering in DEC and Compaq, working among others on the development of the original Windows NT 3.1.

Peter holds both Bachelor of Science and Master’s degrees in Informatics from the University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht.

 

  1. New v3 AWS CloudFormation Template for XenApp now available also in the Sydney region with support for NetScaler and StoreFront

    By Peter Bats · Published on 4 weeks ago · 16 Comments

    Since Paul Wilson and myself first introduced a CloudFormation template in the blog  “Jumpstarting your XenDesktop Farm in AWS with a CloudFormation Template,” we’ve added support for multiple Regions and Availability Zones in a v2 version of this CloudFormation template in the blog “Announcing the Multi-Region AWS CloudFormation Template for XenDesktop”. We are now announcing the third version of our AWS CloudFormation template which adds the ...

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  2. Announcing the Multi-Region AWS CloudFormation Template for XenDesktop

    By Peter Bats · Published on 7 months ago · 2 Comments

    Amazon EC2 Console Dashboard

    By Paul Wilson Since Peter and I first introduced a CloudFormation template in the blog  “Jumpstarting your XenDesktop Farm in AWS with a CloudFormation Template,” we have received numerous requests from readers to update the template to support multiple Regions and Availability Zones. In recent weeks we’ve been laying the groundwork to satisfy these requests — copying the appropriate Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to all the ...

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  3. How to Build a XenDesktop Farm Using a CloudFormation Template – Video demonstration

    By Peter Bats · Published on 10 months ago · No Comments

    By Paul Wilson Peter Bats and I recently released a blog and associated whitepaper titled “Jumpstarting your XenDesktop Farm in AWS with a CloudFormation Template” in which we introduced a CloudFormation template that can be used to create a small XenDesktop farm for hosted shared desktops.  At the end of the blog, we promised to record a video demonstrating how to use the AWS CloudFormation script.  That ...

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  4. Jumpstarting your XenDesktop Farm in AWS with a CloudFormation Template

    By Peter Bats · Published on 10 months ago · 18 Comments

    By Paul Wilson Is your XenDesktop Hosted-shared desktop (XenApp) farm in the Cloud? Have you thought about putting it there? If it only took a few hours to create a XenApp farm in the cloud, would you consider cloud service delivery for your apps and desktops? In case you are new to Amazon Web Services (AWS), you should know that Citrix has recently released a whitepaper and ...

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  5. Scaling Citrix XenDesktop Hosted-shared desktops on Amazon

    By Peter Bats · Published on 10 months ago · 6 Comments

    Deploying Citrix XenDesktop Hosted-shared desktops on Amazon Web Services (AWS) combines the benefits of virtualized application and desktop delivery with the advantages of cloud computig. Building a XenDesktop Hosted-shared desktop (XenApp) farm on AWS creates a Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution that allows instantaneous application and desktop provisioning. This capability often eases IT’s efforts to cope with workload spikes and business changes such as reorganizations, mergers, and ...

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