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Thought on App-V 5.0 Beta: Don't stop your Windows 7 Migration

In a blog post this week , Microsoft's Karri Alexion-Tiernan announced the Beta for App-V 5.0, plus an additional MDOP add-on called UE-V. (The App-V 5.0 Beta is available from Connect ). I want to provide all of those people in the mist of their...

Published Apr 05 2012 by Tim Mangan , 5,131 views, 1 comment
Mulligan: Did Citrix CTO Martin Duursma signal a change at Citrix Synergy Barcelona?

I have been trying to get my head wrapped around the CTO Supersession at Synergy Barcelona last week. I wrote my initial impressions of the session in an article here right after the session . Later on, Benny Tritsch, who sat beside me at the presentation...

Published Nov 02 2011 by Tim Mangan , 4,768 views, 5 comments
Citrix Synergy Barcelona Day 2 Keynote (aka "Super Session")

Citrix "Super Session", Synergy Barcelona Oct 27, 2011 Tim Mangan reports on the second day "Super Session". Otherwise called a Keynote, this morning's session focused on three topics: Collaboration, Cloud, and Mobility. While Wednesday's session was...

Published Oct 27 2011 by Tim Mangan , 3,454 views, 3 comments
How to describe layering: the "blob," cake, or 3D Tetris?

While we're in the process of figuring out the new “desktop” (small “d”), we have a lot of different ideas and models for how to layer and manage our stuff. None of the models seems quite right to me, and over the past few months...

Published Jun 13 2011 by Tim Mangan , 4,025 views, 4 comments
System Performance: It's (still) time to change the timers!

While working on my presentation for BriForum on Perceived Performance, I was reminded of another performance related white paper that I wrote seven years ago titled It's Time to Change the Timers , which was about the need to change the basic system...

Published Apr 13 2011 by Tim Mangan , 3,882 views, 4 comments
Someone's got your back with IE6 apps in Windows 7

I have been looking for a decent solution handling apps that require Internet Explorer 6, and maybe we have a good one now from Browsium . One problem faced by many enterprises in moving to Windows 7 from Windows XP is that they have applications that...

Published Mar 21 2011 by Tim Mangan , 7,663 views, 10 comments
10 years after the Wow! (A look back at Softricity by an insider, 10 years after their founding)

Tim Mangan was at Softricity ten years ago, when application virtualization was in its infancy. In this article he looks back at the history and what's happening now. On February 26th this year, Softricity, the creators of what is now called App-V , turns...

Published Feb 25 2011 by Tim Mangan , 4,936 views, 11 comments
Disappointed! (the true sad story of client hypervisor meloncholy)

Attribution: OpenPhoto.net All I wanted for Christmas was a decent client hypervisor . Two years in a row now. Was that really too much to ask for? Last year at Christmas I was only a little disappointed because I had kept my expectations in check. But...

Published Jan 10 2011 by Tim Mangan , 5,453 views, 8 comments
"A Failure to Launch:" a new free tool for App-V troubleshooting

I have another free tool for people that work with App-V. One of the challenges of working with App-V is dealing with situations when things don't work right, especially when using the full infrastructure model. Since you have a multi-part delivery...

Published Nov 01 2010 by Tim Mangan , 4,034 views, 1 comment
"Advanced Format" 4k disk drives and performance: How will this impact your virtual disks?

Tim Mangan talks about new hard drives on the market, with potential performance and breakage impacts. What it is and why you need to be aware!
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Published Aug 16 2010 by Tim Mangan , 12,367 views, 6 comments

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