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Asking Citrix for answers about the XenDesktop VDA is like a “Who’s on First” Abbot & Costello routine.

Practically everyone knows about the classic skit from Abbott and Costello titled " Who's on First? " The skit is a hilarious exchange between the two men where Costello is merely trying to understand who the correct player is in each field...

Published Feb 04 2013 by Shawn Bass , 6,635 views, 3 comments
How persistence affects security: VDI and TS are not more secure than physical desktops, Part 5 of 5

If you read the last part of my "VDI and TS are not more secure than physical desktops" series, I left off discussing the various ways of performing isolation and how each approach works. I spoke about some of the challenges with each of these...

Published Aug 14 2012 by Shawn Bass , 5,566 views, 7 comments
Security by isolation methods: VDI and TS are not more secure than physical desktops, Part 4 of 5

If you read the last part of my "VDI and TS are not more secure than physical desktops" series, I left off discussing security by isolation. I promised that I'd discuss the different methods of security by isolation and how they help and hinder our two...

Published Aug 10 2012 by Shawn Bass , 5,309 views, 2 comments
Mitigation strategies for data security: VDI and TS are not more secure than physical desktops, part 3 of 5

If you read " Part 1: There's Only Two Types of Data " and " Part 2: Centralization Helps in Other Ways : of my "VDI and Terminal Server are not more secure than physical desktops" series you may have noticed that I ended them without providing advice...

Published Aug 08 2012 by Shawn Bass , 4,315 views, 5 comments
VDI and TS are not more secure than physical desktops, Part 2 of 5: Centralization helps in other ways

If you read Part 1 of my "VDI and Terminal Server is not more secure than physical desktops" series you may have noticed I left off discussing how VDI/TS doesn't improve data security. So if centralization doesn't help with security, what does it help...

Published Aug 03 2012 by Shawn Bass , 4,816 views, 3 comments
VDI and TS are not more secure than physical desktops, Part 1 of 5: There's only two types of data!

For almost 20 years now, I've been implementing Terminal Services and VDI solutions. During that time, I've spent a good deal of time speaking to people about the benefits of these solutions as well as implementing it for customers. There are numerous...

Published Aug 01 2012 by Shawn Bass , 11,001 views, 24 comments
Citrix revises end of life dates for XenApp, but what does that really mean?

Back in January I wrote a blog article called " Citrix plans to end support for XenApp 6.0 in 2013. What's that? You're still migrating to 6.0? " which received over 20 comments and over 15k views. For some, it was a bit of an eye opening as they were...

Published Jul 05 2012 by Shawn Bass , 7,269 views, 0 comments
Why thin clients and zero clients haven't lived up to the "last PC you'll ever buy" hype. (Part 1 of 2)

I've been collecting thoughts on this blog article for a few weeks now. It seems this was quite timely given Brian & Gabe's recent interview with Tom Flynn from HP where they talked about thin clients, zero clients , etc. Here are my thoughts on the...

Published Feb 06 2012 by Shawn Bass , 14,900 views, 11 comments
Citrix plans to end support for XenApp 6.0 in 2013. What's that? You're still migrating to 6.0?

A few months ago Andrew Wood wrote a nice blog article about the end of life of a number of key XenApp-related products, and it reminded me of some conversions I've been having with a number of my customers about this topic. Like all big vendors, Citrix...

Published Jan 17 2012 by Shawn Bass , 27,231 views, 22 comments
Is Microsoft finally closing in on Citrix? (With a look back at ten years of "Microsoft is going to kill Citrix" stories.)

If you've been around the server-based computing industry for any length of time you're no stranger to the Citrix rumor mill. At one time there were stories about Citrix being doomed as a company , acquired by Microsoft , acquired by Oracle and even IBM...

Published Oct 31 2011 by Shawn Bass , 18,581 views, 18 comments

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