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Virtualization Review - "Xen and the Art of Hosted Desktops"

2009-01-08T15:06:17Z

Danielle and Nelson Ruest, both Microsoft MVPs and IT professionals, posted a comprehensive review of Citrix XenDesktop . Danielle and Nelson write "Citrix Systems' XenDesktop is a state-of-the-art product for hosted desktop virtualization and Read More......(read more)

Cut & Paste on the iPhone with(in) Citrix XenApp

2009-01-07T20:17:09Z

Since there was not many new exciting iPhone demo's at the MacWorld Keynote, we decided to release some of our own. Check out Cut & Paste from a real PowerPoint doc to Word. It works with Citrix ! Let us know what you think of the file navigation Read More......(read more)

Xen Summit North America at Oracle

2009-01-06T21:01:25Z

Next month, the Xen.org open source community is hosting our latest Xen Summit at Oracle's HQ in Redwood City, CA. This event brings together the leading developers of the Xen hypervisor as well as researchers and users who leverage the Xen hypervisor Read More......(read more)

Learn How to Simplify XenApp Migrations

2009-01-05T19:31:06Z

Welcome to the new year and my first blog of 2009. Let's kick off '09 with a focus on simplification. Let's focus on a topic that often brings chills to a XenApp administrators spine... upgrades. Back in the day when I was a MetaFrame administrator Read More......(read more)

New Consulting Whitepapers for XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008

2009-01-05T16:40:33Z

Daniel Feller just pointed me out to these new Consulting Whitepapers for XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008. If you are working on XenApp 5.0 for Windows 2008 these are great bookmark links. They are all available for download via Citrix Support site Read More......(read more)

Virtualization Congress at Citrix Synergy 2009

2008-12-31T23:44:48Z

If you're addicted to virtualization.info like me you'll have seen the announcement by Alessandro Perilli that the industry's first vendor neutral virtualization conference, Virtualization Congress 2009 , will be hosted virtualization.info Read More......(read more)

Geek Speak Live! in 2009 - you get to choose the agenda

2008-12-31T20:32:11Z

We have a lot of exciting plans for Geek Speak Live! in the coming year which I wanted to give you all a heads up on. For those of you who haven't heard of Geek Speak, it's a program of informal and unfiltered discussions on technical topics Read More......(read more)

There goes the Neighborhood !

2008-12-30T16:15:29Z

The Ideal XenApp User Experience - A few years back our usability and design teams started a comprehensive research project aimed at crafting the ideal user experience for XenApp. The results were not at all encouraging for Program Neighborhood. It Read More......(read more)

On second thought maybe it is better to Receive!

2008-12-30T15:21:59Z

Since it's inception in 1996 with the first release of WinFrame the "ICA Client" has been on a continuous improvement cycle. As WinFrame grew and evolved into XenApp the client grew and evolved right along with it. As you can imagine the Read More......(read more)

Citrix Ready Partner rPath releases a great video - Cloud Computing in Plain English

2008-12-30T14:34:38Z

watch this 5 min video here. Learn more about rPath and Citrix here * Citrix and rPath View Online | Add Comment Read More......(read more)

Citrix Ready Partner rPath release a great video - Cloud Computing in Plain English

2008-12-30T14:32:08Z

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My IT Predictions for 2009

2008-12-26T22:48:49Z

Prediction #1: The iPhone goes Enterprise - The iPhone will gain rapid adoption in the Enterprise driven by user demands including executives, road warriors, and knowledge workers asking for access to the apps they need ( including windows apps ) Read More......(read more)

Security in Cloud Computing

2008-12-23T20:46:38Z

I interviewed Kurt Roemer for this topic. Kurt is Chief Security Strategist for Citrix Systems and a member of the CTO Office. He's a seasoned information security veteran with more than 20 years experience in networking, applications, and the evolving Read More......(read more)

What's On YOUR 2009 "Wish List"?

2008-12-21T16:59:13Z

As the New Year quickly approaches, we're all thinking of our New Year's resolutions, and I'm sure that on the top of each of your lists is "Improve the Capabilities of my Corporate Citrix Farm". OK, maybe it's not at the TOP Read More......(read more)

Not Quite Ready for Access Gateway?

2008-12-21T16:24:28Z

You Can Still Creating a Secure Portal to Your Applications Using Citrix Secure Gateway! In a perfect world, all the applications published on a XenApp farm would only need to be accessed internally, behind the firewall, using company equipment. But Read More......(read more)