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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...

Published Nov 28 2007 by Brian Madden , 14,215 views, 29 comments

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...

Published Nov 19 2007 by Brian Madden , 13,133 views, 15 comments

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...

Published Nov 14 2007 by Brian Madden , 14,495 views, 14 comments

A few cool IMA Data Store and farm refinements in Citrix Presentation Server over the years

Citrix has made a lot of little changes to IMA and the data store over the years. This article explains some of the things that you might have missed....

Published Nov 13 2007 by Brian Madden , 28,130 views, 28 comments

Quest Software buys Provision Networks! Finally a real challenger to Citrix in the app delivery space?

Quest Software has acquired Provision Networks. Provision's "Virtual Access Suite" is one of the lesser-known, yet very cool, products that competed with Citrix in the application delivery and desktop virtualization space. What will this mean to Citrix?...

Published Nov 12 2007 by Brian Madden , 15,017 views, 51 comments

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....

Published Nov 08 2007 by Brian Madden , 12,705 views, 5 comments

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...

Published Nov 07 2007 by Brian Madden , 13,537 views, 8 comments

Remote display protocols for VDI: will RDP be enough?

Most VDI solutions today make use of the RDP protocol. But RDP was designed for remoting business apps, which is very different than providing an entire local desktop experience remotely. Can RDP do this? Will it need to be extended like ICA? What about the other protocols and vendors out there, like ALP, SPICE, Net2Display, Calista Technologies, Teradici, and DeskTone?...

Published Nov 05 2007 by Brian Madden , 39,843 views, 43 comments

Two new beta clients for the Mac: ICA and RDP

Both Citrix and Microsoft released beta client software for the Mac this week. Microsoft released Beta 2 of their RDP 6 Mac client that connects to the new Windows Server 2008 TS features, and Citrix released a new Mac beta client that supports many ICA features that were not previously available on the Mac, such as seamless windows....

Published Nov 02 2007 by Brian Madden , 13,850 views, 12 comments

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