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Tag: Project Accelerator
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Attention all Project Accelerator Users
Have you tried out the Citrix Project Accelerator yet? If so, we would like to invite you to contribute your expert thoughts and professional feedback on how the tool has helped you with your desktop transformation journey to date. Our intentions have always been to make your virtualization projects wildly successful and this gives you a chance to let us know how we’re doing. Both the ...
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How to avoid the 7 pitfalls of desktop virtualization
When it comes to desktop virtualization, we’ve all messed up. Some of us more than others. But the best among us tend to learn from our mistakes so we don’t repeat them. And the really smart ones learn from others’ mistakes so they don’t have to collect the bruises themselves. That’s the spirit behind our latest eBook for desktop virtualization project teams: The 7 Big, Bad Pitfalls of Desktop ...
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Project Accelerator and Technical Skillset – Why it matters
One of the first questions that Project Accelerator asks you is about your technical skillset, and then it provides a list of about 20 different technologies. Why do we care? Let's say you have App-V experience, then when you get to the application delivery portion, we will probably recommend you use App-V for a subset of applications. They same can be said for hypervisors as well. We ...
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Virtualizing your desktops? Six experts share their advice
Virtualizing your desktops is one of the biggest transformations you’re likely to come across in your career as an IT professional. It doesn’t just touch every user, it touches every other IT discipline, too (storage, networks, apps, security, the works). Fortunately, you’re not the first one to virtualize desktops. Lots of very smart people have been there before and have learned the lessons. With that in mind, we ...
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Visio Stencils for Project Accelerator
Hopefully by now, you've heard of Citrix Project Accelerator. If not, I suggest you take a look at the following blogs: Citrix Launches Free Tool to Take Guesswork Out of Desktop Virtualization Playing 20 Questions with Project Accelerator By spending a little time in the Assess phase, Project Accelerator creates this awesome looking diagram The truth is, this diagram took many, many, many revisions. We wanted to create something ...
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Playing 20 Questions with Project Accelerator
Over a year ago (August 2011) we released an update to the Citrix Desktop Accelerator. That was a major update, as it provided a list of design decisions you would answer in order to properly design your XenDesktop solution. It’s great that we provided all of those decisions, but we started to wonder if people even knew how to answer them correctly? Could most people say ...
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Citrix Launches Free Tool to Take Guesswork Out of Desktop Virtualization
On behalf of the Project Accelerator team, I am very excited to announce that the Citrix Project Accelerator beta, a new tool for implementing virtual desktops, is now available. The idea was simply to make our customers and partners wildly successful with their desktop virtualization deployments – and to help people who are considering desktop virtualization make the right up-front assessment and design decisions. If you’re new to Citrix ...
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New Project Accelerator: Fast Track to Better Virtual Desktops
If you’re like many IT professionals starting a desktop virtualization project, chances are you are asking yourself the following questions: How much hardware and storage am I going to need? What is the architecture going to look like? What steps do I need to build into my project plan? Who do I need to include on the team? We get it. These are tough questions to answer. And that’s why ...