Visio stencils for Citrix Delivery Center solutions

Daniel Feller created a really nice set of visio objects for the Citrix Delivery Center solution set. This is very usefull for everyone who is involved in designing Citrix solutions.

Blog Post by by Ruben Spruijt on July 03, 2008.

Who's missing what? A checklist of what each vendor needs to get to VDI+ by 2010.

Last week I wrote about the four technical capabilities that needed to evolve in order for VDI to become mainstream. For today's article, I put together a quick chart showing which vendors have (or will soon have) which capabilities.

Blog Post by by Brian Madden on July 03, 2008.

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5, Virtual Fantasy or Actual Reality?!

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 is the new name for Microsoft SoftGrid and is Microsoft’s application virtualization solution. In this article, Ruben Spruijt explains what the essential advantages of application virtualization are, and more...

Blog Post by by Ruben Spruijt on July 02, 2008.

BriForum 2008 "Tomorrow's news today"

"Tomorrow's news today" that's BriForum 2008. Together with 20 other speakers I joined the BriForum crew this year. It's really an honor to be part of this impressive list of awesome experts and it's great to learn from these guys! This year I gave...

Blog Post by by Ruben Spruijt on July 02, 2008.

As the Clouds grow

As I'm digging deeper and deeper into this world of "clouds", I started to think about how you might get locked in and lose the portability that is so cool about cloud computing. What will be changing and what will have to be done to prevent that...

Blog Post by by Michael Keen on July 02, 2008.

Part 2 of "Some thoughts around the latest buzz of Cloud Computing"

I've been doing a lot of talking, thinking and reading over the past months with other industry colleagues and I wanted to share some of those thoughts and discussions in Part 2 of my original post around the latest buzz of Cloud Computing.

Blog Post by by Michael Keen on July 01, 2008.

Citrix XenServer is here to stay

I just want to quickly clarify the editorial I wrote yesterday. Other bloggers have written that I suggested that Citrix XenServer is going away. This is not what I believe. I firmly believe that Citrix XenServer is here to stay, and that it was a...

Blog Post by by Brian Madden on June 30, 2008.

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Deep Dive

Chris Lord, Sr. Program Manager at Microsoft presented a Sequencing Deep dive @ Tech-ed 2008. The presentation describes 'inside the virtual file system', the sequencing process, volume management, Dynamic Suit Composition, State Management and...

Blog Post by by Ruben Spruijt on June 30, 2008.

Getting your Application Delivery/Virtualization project off the ground

In these difficult economic times, we need to work a little harder and smarter to get our pet projects off the ground, or gain further executive buy-in. I wanted to share with you some of the things that I have done in the past to help accomplish my...

Blog Post by by Michael Keen on June 30, 2008.

Prediction: Citrix will drop the open source Xen hypervisor for Hyper-V. The rest of the open source world drops Xen for KVM.

Microsoft Hyper-V and the open source Xen hypervisor are so similar that Citrix might switch to using Hyper-V for its XenServer products. Meanwhile, the hot new way to virtualize servers in the open source world is KVM. Where does this all leave Xen?

Blog Post by by Brian Madden on June 30, 2008.