May 2007 - Ruben Spruijt Ruben Spruijt

At Briforum 07 Chicago USA, Tim Mangan and I give a presentation in the birds of a feather timeslot. Within this presentation i talked about the application delivery vision of a customer. In this vision the end-user is free to install application, hardware etc. without introducing availability issues. The vision and an overview of the infrastructure is writen in an article "EveryThing under control at Fontys University"...

Citrix Youdeliver is a way to learn the language of Citrix in a fun way. Sometime ago i created a Video Cast for the Citrix YouDeliver Contest. The highest 25 rated entries get an Apple iPhone. I can use some 5-star rates ... ...

Virtualisation and Streaming Technology are two widely-used terms and widely-use technologies in practice. Hardware Virtualisation with Microsoft, VMware or XEN and application virtualisation with Microsoft SoftGrid, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Altiris SVS or Thinstall are thereby the solutions most commonly adopted. A new streaming technology which offers added value is the Citrix Ardence Software Streaming platform. Ardence provides a completely new approach to the Operating System and application availability for clients. Clients can be servers, workstations, Virtual Desktop Infrastructures or Citrix Desktop Server environments. In this article I would like to explain what Citrix Ardence is, how it can be used, why Ardence was acquired by Citrix and how the solution works in technical terms. After reading this article you will hopefully be just as enthusiastic about this interesting technology as I am....