Woo-hoo! I won a Citrix Oscar... I think?

A Citrix blogger announced the "winners" of Citrix's Tech Videos for the past year. The top two videos were mine! I went online to bask in the glory but couldn't find my videos. It turns out that Citrix renamed them all for "XenApp," even though that product doesn't exist yet and my videos are NOT about XenApp.

Posted by Brian Madden on February 25, 2008 - Category: Community Fun

Sun increases their VM reach by buying a desktop VM vendor. Wait, Sun has a VM reach?

Another interesting thing that happened when I had the flu last week was that Sun bought a small German company called Innotek, the maker of an open source desktop VM product called VirtualBox.

Posted by Brian Madden on February 21, 2008 -

El Reg pokes Citrix, Citrix bites back. Do we have a XenServer storage plan now?

The Register's Ashlee Vance wrote an article last week about Citrix XenServer 4.1. In typical Reg-style snarky tone, Vance is upset with Citrix because before the acquisition, XenSource had announced that the next version of their server product would include Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation software built-in. But when Citrix finally released the XenServer 4.1 beta last week, the Symantex Veritas code was nowhere to be found.

Posted by Brian Madden on February 19, 2008 -

An in-depth review of Citrix Workflow Studio

Citrix announced a new product, called "Citrix Workflow Studio," as part of their multi-product announcement last week. Based on Microsoft's Windows Workflow Foundations, Citrix Workflow Studio is a graphical workflow environment where you can drag-and-drop configuration elements of your Citrix environment. Once you get everything set up how you want it, you can click "go" and the system will go out and build or configure your real environment just as you modeled it.

Posted by Brian Madden on February 17, 2008 -

How to test the performance of Flash apps in a Terminal Server browser

Warren Simondson (remember him from last month) has created a web page you can use when testing the performance of Flash applications when delivering a web browser via Citrix or Terminal Services.http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com.au/CAD_FlashTest.htm To the untrained eye, this might look like nothing more than an excuse to play space invaders all day. But if anyone catches you playing, be sure to point out the "Citrix" logo on the space ships. Tell them this application was specfically...

Posted by Brian Madden on February 05, 2008 - Category: Community Fun