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Yesterday Citrix bought XenSource for $500 million. There have been hundreds of articles, blogs, and comments written about this. I’ve read every single one of them that I can find. In this article I’m going to try to summarize the more interesting theories and comments about what this acquisition means....

In response to several requests in our forums, Mark Elliott has written a couple of VB scripts that backup and restore policies stored in a Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 or 4.5 farm....

Tomorrow, Citrix will release Feature Pack (not Feature Release) 1 for Presentation Server 4.5 to the general public. Michel Roth of ThinComputing.net has put together a great write-up on the new features and changes....

I don't mean "you" as in "your users." I mean "you" as in "you personally." Why aren't YOU using VDI? Is it because you're a road warrior? Because you need your VMs locally? Because you're a Mac...

Earlier today Citrix made a slew of announcements about XenDesktop 4 , the latest version of their desktop and application delivery suite. The critical facts from the announcements are: XenDesktop can be used to deliver any kind of desktop, not just VDI...

At VMworld last month, VMware announced several future capabilities of their VDI product. Yesterday we looked at VMware's bare-metal hypervisor, and today we'll look at the technology that will allow multiple VDI VMs to share the same disk image. This will be done with a new product that will be called "VMware View Composer." ("VMware View" is the new name for their VDI product, so "View Composer" is what you use to compose your disk images. Get it?)...

In this article, Ron Oglesby talks about Citrix's upcoming Remote Desktop Broker product, their entry into the VDI space. While this product will only provide a stopgap solution, it will be useful in many scenarios....

Citrix bought Orbital Data and released the WANscaler product almost a year ago. After learning more about the products and how they work, I really think that WANscaler will grow to become a very important part of Citrix's application delivery platform.

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The annual MVP conference at Microsoft's campus is Redmond is a great opportunity for the twenty-or-so Terminal Server MVPs to spend a few days with Microsoft's Terminal Server product group. While most of the conversations are NDA, one cool thing...

Next up in our series of product lines from the Big 5 (Citrix, Symantec, Quest, VMware, and Microsoft, in no particular order) is Quest Software's Desktop Virtualization Group . There will be a chart at the end, but it will probably be one of the...

I attended the annual Citrix Strategy Day meeting in NYC. Even though this is primarily a generic and sanitized general strategy message, I did learn a few interesting things....

Our BriForum conference is about three weeks away, and I realized that some people are upset that we're planning on selling DVDs. I want your opinion. Should we sell DVDs? If so, for how much?...

In this article, Michel Roth of ThinComputing.net outlines some of the new features in the next version of Citrix Presentation Server, codenamed "Delaware."...

Last month, Citrix showed a mockup of what an ICA client for the iPhone could look like. Does this represent the future of application access, or is this just a neat party trick?...

PortICA is the name of the technology that "ports" the ICA protocol stack from Presentation Server / Terminal Server to a workstation OS. In other words, portICA lets you use the ICA protocol to connect to a Windows XP or Vista host acting as the server (for a VDI or blade PC scenario). Citrix is using PortICA instead of the built-in RDP-based remote desktop option in their upcoming XenDesktop product....