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

The Citrix Blog — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:06:17 GMT

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)

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

The Citrix Blog — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:17:09 GMT

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)

Xen Summit North America at Oracle

The Citrix Blog — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:01:25 GMT

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)

Learn How to Simplify XenApp Migrations

The Citrix Blog — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:31:06 GMT

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)

New Consulting Whitepapers for XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008

The Citrix Blog — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:40:33 GMT

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)

Virtualization Congress at Citrix Synergy 2009

The Citrix Blog — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:44:48 GMT

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)

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

The Citrix Blog — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:32:11 GMT

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)

There goes the Neighborhood !

The Citrix Blog — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:15:29 GMT

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)

On second thought maybe it is better to Receive!

The Citrix Blog — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:21:59 GMT

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)

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

The Citrix Blog — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:34:38 GMT

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

The Citrix Blog — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:32:08 GMT

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My IT Predictions for 2009

The Citrix Blog — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:48:49 GMT

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)

Security in Cloud Computing

The Citrix Blog — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:46:38 GMT

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)

What's On YOUR 2009 "Wish List"?

The Citrix Blog — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:59:13 GMT

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)

Not Quite Ready for Access Gateway?

The Citrix Blog — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:24:28 GMT

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)