Tag: ica

  1. Want to improve your XenApp XenDesktop end-user experience? Learn how… at Synergy!

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    If your users are complaining about applications being slow and you would like to move from here:             to:           Come join us at Citrix Synergy to learn about our exciting solution – NetScaler Insight Center with HDX Insight! In my recent blog (HDX Insight: Finally a solution from Citrix for Citrix!), I wrote about HDX Insight. HDX Insight is powerful tool that provided end-to-end user experience visibility for Citrix ...

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  2. HDX Insight: Finally a solution from Citrix for Citrix!

    The recent movement in mobility and virtualization has made it difficult for IT to instrument their network and technology infrastructure. Citrix customers  delivering virtual applications (XenApp) and desktops (XenDesktop) to their mobile users have faced similar challenge. Administrators had never been able to gain deep packet level visibility into ICA. HDX Insight will change this! HDX Insight is powerful tool that provided end-to-end user experience visibility for ...

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  3. Got Your Back: Securing Both Sides of XenDesktop with Palo Alto Networks and Citrix NetScaler

    Your datacenter is becoming your desktop. The idea that I’m typing this into a machine that lives in a server rack somewhere in a Silicon Valley datacenter is a nuance of the transition to virtual desktops that we don’t think about all that much. I can tell you this with confidence because in the last three years of presenting at our Executive Briefing Center, the number ...

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  4. Pretty Convincing or Intolerable Performance?

    I’d like to share an experience that I've had at multiple customer sites. Initially I thought it was just a weird thing that only happened to me, but when I discussed this at our sales kickoff event, I was deluged with “that happened at my account too” and was even part of a conversation with customers that have switched from VMware View to XD after ...

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  5. HDX is even better in XenDesktop 5.5

    Citrix’s HDX technologies for delivering a high definition user experience have been a big factor in XenDesktop’s rise to first place in the desktop and application virtualization market. With today’s release of XenDesktop 5.5, including XenApp 6.5 and Citrix Receiver 3.0 for Windows, HDX is even better. We’ve worked hard to address more challenging network conditions such as limited bandwidth, high latency, jitter, congestion and ...

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  6. This just in! PCoIP is the cure to cancer, solution to world hunger, makes you look 20 years younger!!

    Yesterday, Sumit Dhawan, the head honco of the Citrix Receiver and End Users Services Group presented at the Gartner Catalyst Conference along with Vittorio Viarengo, Vice President of End-User Computing for VMware in a session moderated by Gartner’s Chris Wolf entitled “Protocol Wars: What Matters”. Before I get to how PCoIP cured cancer and won the world cup, I wanted to reiterate the premise of ...

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  7. Dynamic Color Compression cuts bandwidth consumption by 35%

    The ICA protocol is widely recognized as the most bandwidth-efficient remoting protocol in the industry, and it keeps getting better. Through integration with HDX Adaptive Orchestration, the Extra Color Compression feature introduced in XenDesktop 4 Feature Pack 1 has been enhanced in XenDesktop 5 to automatically adjust based on available network bandwidth. Dynamic Color Compression takes advantage of the fact that the human eye is ...

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  8. Smile if you’re using Citrix HDX

    If you're interested in learning about how the various VDI remoting protocols work and how they compare, an excellent presentation on this topic was given by virtualization expert Dr. Bernhard (Benny) Tritsch at the recent Microsoft Tech Ed 2010 conference in Berlin. Benny's slide deck and a video of his presentation are posted on the Tech Ed site. Benny and his colleague Shawn Bass have done ...

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  9. Answers to Your Questions about Optimizing XenApp and XenDesktop Access Across the WAN

    Thanks to all that attended the TechTalk live on August 25th! Almost as many individuals have already watched the recording compared with those that attended live. Could you tell that my favorite part was dissecting the ICA packets? This WAN Optimization TechTalk session will be repeated for the EMEA audience on October 7th, and all are welcome to attend. So if you ...

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  10. Dissecting ICA Packets

    I promise, it's nothing like dissecting frogs in science class. No forceps or scalpel. No nasty smells. But dissecting ICA packets does separate the geeks from, well, the rest. Dissecting ICA packets is free. All you need is something like Network Monitor from Microsoft and a programmer calculator. Just download Network Monitor from the Microsoft site and change your ...

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