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Peter Blum

  1. Citrix XenClient at Synergy – Find out what it takes to scale to 10,000 users, use a single image for all your laptops, and much more!

    By Peter Blum · Published on 2 weeks ago · 1 Comment

    Did you know you can use a single golden image of Windows to deploy, update, and secure all of your laptops? Did you know that you can securely backup user data from mobile laptops over the public Internet? You can and XenClient makes it super easy to do! Simplify and secure your mobile laptops with the power of virtual desktops to go.So now you are ...

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  2. Accelerate your laptop migrations to Windows 7 with XenClient 2.1

    By Peter Blum · Published on 2 months ago · No Comments

    XenClient 2.1 as part of our recently announced XenDesktop 5.6 release enables companies to accelerate their laptop migrations to Windows 7 and leave them with a more secure and easier to maintain mobile computing environment.Many companies we talk with are still in the process of rolling out Windows 7 into their environments. It takes time to bring a new operating system into a large environment ...

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  3. Citrix XenClient 2.1 released, download it now, attend the webinar to learn even more!

    By Peter Blum · Published on 5 months ago · 1 Comment

    At our Synergy Barcelona show in October, we announced XenClient 2.1 which is an update to XenClient 2 that includes a number of amazing new product enhancements and improvements. Today I am delighted to announce that it’s officially released and available for download.Citrix XenClient is the next evolution in local virtual desktops that takes a fundamentally different approach to client virtualization leading to blazing fast ...

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  4. Announcing XenClient 2.1! Find out what’s new!

    By Peter Blum · Published on 6 months ago · 25 Comments

    Earlier this year Citrix introduced XenClient 2 and the Synchronizer for XenClient. The release introduced a host of new features that greatly broadened hardware compatibility, delivered a simplified user experience, and enabled larger, more complex production deployments of XenClient.To continue that momentum, today at our Citrix Synergy™ conference we announced XenClient 2.1. This update includes a number of new product enhancements such as simplified Windows ...

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  5. Citrix XenClient 2 released, Find out what’s new

    By Peter Blum · Published on 8 months ago · 4 Comments

    At Synergy this past May, we shared an amazing XenClient milestone by announcing 100,000 downloads of XenClient 1 in the first year. We also unveiled our next act with XenClient 2 as a tech preview. Close to 10,000 of you jumped at the opportunity to download and get your hands on the tech preview. Your responses and comments have been positively amazing.Today, the Citrix XenClient ...

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  6. Thanks 100,000 Times from the XenClient 2 Team

    By Peter Blum · Published on 10 months ago · 14 Comments

    Hard to believe that it’s been just one year since we first made XenClient, our bare metal client hypervisor, available to the world back at Citrix Synergy 2010. Since that time we’ve more than doubled the size of the XenClient development team (including hiring some of the most brilliant deep systems developers I’ve ever worked with) and had a flood of wish list feedback and ...

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  7. Intel Launches 2nd Gen Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processors, and that makes XenClient really happy!

    By Peter Blum · Published on 1 year ago · No Comments

    Today Intel officially launched their 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processors and we couldn't be more excited. Our close relationship with Intel and our OEM partners Dell, HP, and Lenovo has meant we have been working on updating XenClient to take advantage of all the great new capabilities and performance the new platforms deliver for some time now. I've had hands on time with the ...

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  8. XenClient 1.0 Released

    By Peter Blum · Published on 1 year ago · 8 Comments

    On behalf of the entire XenClient product team I'm thrilled to announce general availability of XenClient 1.0 and the Synchronizer for XenClient 1.0 as part of XenDesktop 4 Feature Pack 2. XenClient has been more than a year and a half in the making with countless late nights and weekends dedicated to creating this ground breaking bare metal client hypervisor.As a new addition to XenDesktop, ...

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  9. XenClient 1.0 RC2 Released, New Features in Synchronizer Post 2 of 2

    By Peter Blum · Published on 1 year ago · 1 Comment

    In my first post I introduced all the great new features and enhancements to the XenClient software that runs on the laptops and desktops. Now I wanted to turn the attention to the Synchronizer for XenClient. This is the centralized delivery system that can deploy, update, backup, and secure virtual machines running on XenClient.  We will also have a few more surprises before GA that ...

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  10.  XenClient 1.0 RC2 Released, New Features in XenClient Post 1 of 2

    By Peter Blum · Published on 1 year ago · 3 Comments

    I'm excited to let everyone know that we just posted the second release candidate of XenClient and the Synchronizer for XenClient to the web. This will be our last stop before GA and I wanted to tell you about some of the great new features and enhancements in this release in XenClient, tomorrow I'll share more details about enhancements to the Synchronizer for XenClient. We ...

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