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  • Top 2 XenApp Questions at Windows Server 2008 Launch Events

    After sponsoring more than a dozen Microsoft launch events around the world, I have reached out to the virtual Citrix event team to get an understanding of the top ten questions we are hearing with respect to Citrix XenApp. While we all know that history...
    The Official Citrix Blog on March 13, 2008 : 0 comments , 1,434 views
  • Video of Ian Pratt's Presentation at FOSDEM 2008

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    The Official Citrix Blog on March 15, 2008 : 0 comments , 1,004 views
  • What's Next for Citrix's SMB Customers?

    In the last couple of months, there have been a number of blogs added on this site covering the progress of Project Delaware -- the next release of XenApp (new name for Presentation Server) for Windows Server 2008. At the same time, another team of...
    The Official Citrix Blog on March 15, 2008 : 0 comments , 682 views
  • Exciting times ahead with CSC

    I spent some time with our friends and partners CSC, both at their Aldershot UK headquarters and at VMworld Cannes. In case you missed it, we just announced a partnership around "CSC Dynamic Desktops" last month. The guys I met were real veterans...
    The Official Citrix Blog on March 06, 2008 : 0 comments , 460 views
  • "10 Virtualization Vendors to Watch" Part VIII...

    The next virtualization vendor on up in my series of posts digging down into CIO Magazine's " 10 Virtualization Vendors to Watch " is Marathon Technologies . Here is what CIO Magazine has to say about Marathon - How do you deal with planned...
    The Official Citrix Blog on March 07, 2008 : 0 comments , 408 views
  • How to get the Client IP address or hostname of a Citrix session or Terminal Services Session?

    Have you ever tried to get the Client IP address for a Citrix or terminal services session and got stuck? I have had several emails asking me on how to do it. Well I thought I might just blog about it. I can think four ways to do it and if you can add...
    The Official Citrix Blog on March 07, 2008 : 0 comments , 1,379 views
  • Simon Crosby Interview at VMWorld Europe

    Simon Crosby , the CTO of the Citrix Virtualization and Management Division, was interviewed recently at VMWorld Europe by Tarry Singh of Virtualization for Everyone . Here is how Tarry describes the interview on his blog - Talking to Simon is always...
    The Official Citrix Blog on March 08, 2008 : 0 comments , 838 views
  • Build your Tech Lab at iForum, the Application Delivery Conference

    In every Application Delivery Conference (the new iForum) we have something called a Citrix Tech Lab where we show case our latest technologies and give a peek into the future technologies that are brewing in our labs. Traditionally this has been a pure...
    The Official Citrix Blog on March 11, 2008 : 0 comments , 863 views
  • The XenApp Transparent User Experience - Demo !

    So I was thinking a demonstration of XenApp desktop integration might be in order. The "Citrix Applications Agent" formerly known as "Program Neighborhood Agent" allows you to deliver Citrix applications seamlessly to the Windows Start...
    The Official Citrix Blog on March 13, 2008 : 0 comments , 1,076 views
  • USB Storage of RadeCache (App Streaming)

    Some customers want to store the RadeCache on USB sticks. Is it possible? The answer is: Yes, but it requires jumping through a few hoops. The background on the problem and the steps to pull it off are described below. Background With Application Streaming...
    The Official Citrix Blog on March 13, 2008 : 0 comments , 1,130 views
  • Memory Lapse

    Eric Horschmann of VMware recently posted on his blog about the ESX memory overcommitment feature. It can be a utilization benefit in some use cases, especially with lightly used virtual desktops. But Eric describes it as if it's somehow a game-changing...
    The Official Citrix Blog on March 13, 2008 : 0 comments , 1,124 views
  • Secrets for Optimizing Flash Performance - Part 1

    In my conversations with customers at our iForum App Delivery Expo in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, the topic of Adobe Flash came up several times. It became apparent to me that many Citrix system administrators are looking for guidance on how best to configure...
    The Official Citrix Blog on December 01, 2007 : 0 comments , 1,952 views
  • Amazon Kindle

    Just yesterday I wrote about a new technology from Cisco to enable people to meet over great distances. Today I discovered that Amazon has released its new product called Kindle. There has been a dream for a number of years to produce a device that would...
    The Official Citrix Blog on December 01, 2007 : 0 comments , 1,282 views
  • Telepresence Revisted

    Back in January I wrote a post titled Telepresence which covered the concept of extending the Citrix model to better simulate remote environments for the sake of working together across great distances. Recently I attended a Gartner conference in Sydney...
    The Official Citrix Blog on December 01, 2007 : 0 comments , 1,274 views
  • Virtualization Olympics - Going for the Gold - Twice

    News Item edited by Roger Klorese It's hard to believe how much has happened in a year on the Citrix XenServer front. Well, of course, there's that acquisition thing. But I'm thinking about the product itself. Just one year ago, XenEnterprise...
    The Official Citrix Blog on January 16, 2008 : 0 comments , 417 views