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VDI or Desktop Virtualization - One Size Fits All? NOT TRUE!!!

I have to admit that this in response to a blog posted by Brian Madden couple of days ago. In his blog Brian did three things: Create some news and controversy - as always he seem to have done well Compare Citrix's shipping product with VMware's...

Published Nov 26 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,493 views, 0 comments

Slash Costs by Virtualizing XenApp ... learn how

I often talk with Citrix customers who are interested in virtualizing XenApp ( Presentation Server ) based on the potential to consolidate servers, increase flexibility or enable new HA/DR capabilities. However, a frequent comment I hear is that we tried...

Published Nov 26 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,374 views, 0 comments

Will the Cloud be intelligent?

Virtualize your servers, desktops, applications; the benefits are clear, it's a question of when not if - sure get that. Virtualization is not an end point, but an enabler of a more flexible and efficient compute environment - ok get that too. Ultimately...

Published Nov 26 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,286 views, 0 comments

Thank you sir, may I have another!

First the thanks! As we roll into the Thanksgiving week in the US, I thought I would give a quick shout out of thanks to all of you that have participated in the Citrix Ready Community Verified site. Verifications are coming in faster than we can...

Published Nov 26 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,165 views, 0 comments

SSL Offload with Verisign

NetScaler supports the chaining of Intermediate SSL Certificates Up to 10 Chained Certificates to be exact, one Server Certificate and nine CA Certificates. Verisign recently posted an advisory stating the discontinuance of Unchained SSL Certificates...

Published Nov 25 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,469 views, 0 comments

VDI - Optimizing Storage and Image Management, part 1

When implementing a virtual desktop solution, IT has got to account for two significant cost contributors: the capital costs for the increased storage requirements and the operational costs of managing and maintaining the desktops themselves. I think...

Published Nov 25 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,085 views, 0 comments

Behind XenServer Storage

In my previous post on the subject of storage ( Is SAN really NAS spelt backwards ), I introduced a fundamentals whitepaper. Behind XenServer Storage , builds on this and shows how XenServer leverages the different kinds of storage. Feedback welcome!...

Published Nov 25 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 2,709 views, 0 comments

App Streaming - Where's the isolated registry?

This post is for programmers and admins who want to peek inside an Application Streaming profile to see the disk and registry content that the profile/target represents without having to actually RUN the application. First, some background. A streaming...

Published Nov 24 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,267 views, 0 comments

Sprint HTC Touch Pro, Ready Today

I've been using the Sprint HTC Touch Pro for a few months now, and I feel that it is a very compelling mobile device for use with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop, maybe even for few of the folks I've been hearing from that are looking to move away...

Published Nov 24 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,263 views, 0 comments

Video RDP ICA Drive Mapping Performance Comparison

I've been working on the ICA on iPhone project recently and I had to move a new build from my development machine to my test server frequently. At first I tried RDP. But it is painfully slow to copy my binary to the test server for me. Then I tried...

Published Nov 24 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,464 views, 0 comments

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