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VMWare acquisition validates Citrix focus

Today's announcement that VMWare has acquired Thinstall speaks volumes. And despite what you might think, this is great news for Citrix. First, some background. Thinstall virtualizes elements of the Windows operating system like files and registry...

Jay Tomlin on January 15, 2008 : 31 comments , 2,619 views

If You Could Wave a Magic Wand...

If you could wave a magic wand and have any one single feature in the next release of Citrix XenApp, what would it be? While XenApp has literally hundreds of features that have been added over the last 10 years as the product has evolved from MetaFrame...

The Official Citrix Blog on July 18, 2008 : 29 comments , 3,119 views

Is that a Silverlight in the Web Interface future?

Like most techie geeks, our developers like to play with the latest technology and explore what's possible. Sometimes they even get the chance to do it as part of their job... Folks who have seen Thomas Koetzing's peek at the upcoming version...

The Official Citrix Blog on February 28, 2008 : 15 comments , 2,419 views

Citrix Support Site Completely Overhauled

When visiting the Citrix Support site (aka the Citrix Knowledge Center) today I was completely shocked. Citrix secretly has completely overhauled their support site and it's looking good! I am really exited about the work Citrix has done on their...

Michel Roth on November 11, 2007 : 14 comments , 1,807 views

Happy holidays! windows server 2008 RC1 with hyper-v beta now available!

Greetings! Jeff Woolsey here from the virtualization team. We have some big news today! We just released the Windows Hyper-V BETA! The Hyper-V beta is a major step forward from the Preview release we provided just a couple of months ago. This beta is...

Windows Virtualization Team Blog on December 13, 2007 : 13 comments , 1,480 views

HYPER-V QUICK MIGRATION & VMWARE LIVE MIGRATION PART 1...

Virtualization Nation, Generally speaking, I like to focus my blogs on what we’re doing at Microsoft regarding Hyper-V virtualization and pretend the rest of the Internet doesn't exist. However, there’s some buzz on the web about a topic that I feel...

Windows Virtualization Team Blog on April 09, 2008 : 13 comments , 2,892 views

Why can't we have technology that would allow TS/VDI sessions to suspend/resume on a different host?

On April 1st, 2008 Brian Madden had posted up an April Fool's day joke in the form of a blog entry describing how some new Australian firm had developed technology that would allow you to suspend a session running on a Terminal Server and take it...

Shawn Bass on April 03, 2008 : 12 comments , 2,179 views

MTU size mismatch, a major cause of disconnections

Disconnections due to media MTU mismatches are far more common than most people realise. RDP packets are flagged don’t fragment so under a number of situations including some interesting ones (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900926and http://support...

Michel Roth on June 28, 2011 : 8 comments , 1,415 views

Added White Paper: Performance of CPS running on Citrix Provisioning Server

In a new article in the white paper section I'm describing the performance of Citrix Presentation Server running a streamed... Read More...

Wilco van Bragt on November 20, 2007 : 7 comments , 2,986 views

Vista Aero on a non-Vista appliance

One of the most exciting demos at iForum 07 – The App Delivery Expo – was the project Apollo demo by Henry Gancedo to Mark Templeton and the audience at the closing keynote. Click here to view a 6-minute video of the Apollo demo in which Henry...

The Official Citrix Blog on October 31, 2007 : 7 comments , 1,723 views

Array And Ericom Team Up Against Citrix

Array, a vendor that produces hardware SSL VPN appliances and other remote access appliances, has teamed up with Ericom to deliver a solution that bundles their products to rival Citrix' solutions. eWeek reports that Array brings to the table its...

Michel Roth on November 14, 2007 : 7 comments , 1,911 views

RES To Launch "Lite" Version Of Powerfuse At $60 / CCU

Yesterday, at RES' own event RES Focus 2008, RES Announced that they will be offering a "lite" version of their popular product Powerfuse called RES PowerFuse Express. This version will go for about $60 per concurrent user which is...

Michel Roth on October 05, 2007 : 6 comments , 2,592 views

What does Program Neighborhood Agent mean anyway ?

Back in the days of Windows 9.X Microsoft had "Network Neighborhood" on everyone's desktop. It made sense for us to place an icon on the desktop and call it "Program Neighborhood". From there is wasn't much of a leap to get...

The Official Citrix Blog on March 17, 2008 : 5 comments , 12,363 views

Virtual Application Delivery Appliance - VADA Bing VADA Boom!

Most of us know or have heard about Virtual Appliances. Mostly single purpose virtual machines usually running on some variant of Linux today. So why is this beneficial? - Ease of installation - import the VM and start it up - Preconfigured -...

The Official Citrix Blog on March 25, 2008 : 5 comments , 2,140 views

Off Shoring Virtual Application Creation

Application virtualization, primarily thanks to Microsoft pushing it, has become very popular in companies of all sizes. Implementation of application virtualization or migration to application virtualization isn't something to be taken lightly. Whether...

Michel Roth on March 13, 2008 : 5 comments , 1,647 views

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