Will VDI replace Terminal Server-based SBC?

Last week Computer Reseller News published an article by Mario Morejon titled, "Virtualization: The Emerging Desktop." Quoting from the article: "Virtualized desktop technology holds more promise than server-based computing because users are able to experience fully integrated desktop environments. Personalization is relatively easy to set up. This is why Citrix is now in the game. Server-based computing, including Microsoft Terminal Services, is a dying technology."My...

Posted by Brian Madden on November 28, 2007 -

Chapter 3: Network Architecture from our upcoming Presentation Server 4.5 book is now online

As of this month it's officially been more than five years since I've written a book about Citrix. (Before I had a blog even!) The Presentation Server 4.5 book that I originally thought would be out  in January 2007 is still a work in progress. I've learned a lot about Citrix in the past five years. So much that I'm actually completely rewriting this book from scratch instead of trying to update or patch the old book. The delay in this book was caused by the simple fact that I...

Posted by Brian Madden on November 19, 2007 -

Microsoft Viridian will be called "Hyper-V." The Price? $28!

At the Microsoft IT Forum in Spain this week, Microsoft announced that their hypervisor product previously known as "Viridian" will be officially called "Hyper-V." Even more surprising is the price: USD $28!Hyper-V will only be available for Windows Server 2008 Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions. (i.e. It won't be available for Web Edition.) Even more surprising, the press release said it wouldn't be available for Itanium editions. (This is surprising,...

Posted by Brian Madden on November 15, 2007 -

TechNet series on Terminal Server 2008: 8 webcasts in 3 weeks!

The Microsoft Terminal Server product group is giving a series of webcasts about Terminal Server on Windows Server 2008.

Posted by Brian Madden on November 08, 2007 - Category: Community Fun

Tidbits on Citrix Presentation Futures, from the Citrix Solutions Conference in Antwerp

Today I'm at the Citrix Solutions Conference in Antwerp, a Citrix event with 1500 people that is something like iForum for Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Brad Pedersen gave the technical keynote. He began with the technical history of Citrix's products and finished talking about their vision. Most of this was stuff that I'd heard before, but there were a few gems that were new to me:Citrix is working on a "Print Server" for Presentation Server server, whatever...

Posted by Brian Madden on November 07, 2007 -