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 very good thing for Citrix to buy XenSource....

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 Sequencing process. Last year when I visited Microsoft in Boston Chris presented this great information to a small group, I really think this information is usefull for every App-V die-harder....

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 project goals....

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?...

VDI is a niche solution today. In this article we'll explore the specific technical issues that are preventing VDI from replacing enterprise desktops in large numbers. We'll also look at why these issues will be solved by June 2010 and why VDI will become mainstream in 2011.

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Someone posted on the BriForum attendee blog the other day wanting to know more about this. Here is your answer...

This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum 2008 , presented by Brian Madden. Session Description: WAN Acceleration has become more popular over the past few years. Companies like Expand have been doing it for awhile, and Citrix recently got into...

This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum 2008 , presented by Rick Mack, Joe Shonk, Tim Mangan, and Eric Musgrave. Session Description: We've been talking about printing at BriForum for years. In this session, instead of focusing on how...

This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum 2008 , presented by Brian Madden, Jeroen van de Kamp, and Joe Shonk Session Description: In this white board-based workshop session, we'll discuss the real problems that you have in your environment...

This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum 2008 , presented by Kevin Goodman and Michael Thomason. Session Description: In this session, Kevin Goodman and Michael Thomason provide an in depth exploration of Citrix Virtual Channels. Included is...