Keynote notes from iForum 07 - The Application Delivery Expo

We're here at iForum 07 - The Application Delivery Expo, and we just got done with the opening keynote by Mark Templeton. Here's the interesting stuff we heard:

Article by Gabe Knuth on October 23, 2007.

A Technical Analysis of Citrix's Application Streaming Announcement

Today Citrix announced that they were working on Desktop Application Streaming technology. This technology will allow applications to be streamed to desktop computers and executed locally (even when offline). This is exactly what Softricity does. In this article, I'll dig into Citrix's new technology and what it means for the company and Softricity.

Article by Chris Dehlinger on October 23, 2007.

Citrix iForum US: Moving from October to May?

There's a rumor coming from the folks in Ft. Lauderdale that Citrix will move their global iForum event to May of each year instead of October.

Article by Brian Madden on October 19, 2007.

Good-bye Ardence. Hello Citrix Provisioning Server.

Last week Citrix officially changed the name of their Ardence Server product to Citrix Provisioning Server. It appears that the product itself hasn't changed at all.

Article by Brian Madden on October 15, 2007.

VMware OnDemand streaming technology will challenge Citrix’s Ardence platform

VMware just previewed a technology that lets a client VM player boot up a virtual machine from a virtual hard disk file located across a network. This is pretty much exactly what Citrix's Ardence platform does. Even though Ardence has been doing this for years, VMware may have the upper hand from a technology standpoint.

Article by Brian Madden on September 13, 2007.

Citrix and Microsoft join forces against VMware...at VMworld!

At VMworld 2007 today, Citrix and Microsoft made an announcement that all of their virtualization products will use Microsoft's VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) file format. Great! So what does it mean?

Article by Gabe Knuth on September 12, 2007.

Friday News round-up: September 7, 2007

Here's a quick look at the things you may have missed this week. Several new (and free) products were released, the Citrix / XenSource acquisition was approved, and Citrix bought another company.

Article by Brian Madden on September 06, 2007.

Friday News round up: August 31, 2007

A quick summary of the things you might have missed this week.

Article by Brian Madden on August 31, 2007.

Friday News round up: August 24, 2007

Now that we've all had a week or so to let Citrix's half-billion dollar offer for XenSource sink in, what are people thinking and talking about?

Article by Brian Madden on August 24, 2007.

Free DEFSET GUI manages default printer settings in Citrix and Terminal Server environments

DEFSET is a standalone Windows GUI tool designed to manage default printer selections on a per user basis. This tool is suited to users accessing a Terminal Server/ Citrix session and is designed to retain a user's default printer choice. DEFSET allows the user to change their default printer during program execution, and writes this information to an ini file located in the users individual windows directory. This information is then used to remember the selected the default printer for later sessions.

Article by Warren Simondson on August 24, 2007.