Remote display protocols for VDI: will RDP be enough?

Most VDI solutions today make use of the RDP protocol. But RDP was designed for remoting business apps, which is very different than providing an entire local desktop experience remotely. Can RDP do this? Will it need to be extended like ICA? What about the other protocols and vendors out there, like ALP, SPICE, Net2Display, Calista Technologies, Teradici, and DeskTone?

Article by Brian Madden on November 06, 2007.

Two new beta clients for the Mac: ICA and RDP

Both Citrix and Microsoft released beta client software for the Mac this week. Microsoft released Beta 2 of their RDP 6 Mac client that connects to the new Windows Server 2008 TS features, and Citrix released a new Mac beta client that supports many ICA features that were not previously available on the Mac, such as seamless windows.

Article by Brian Madden on November 02, 2007.

Where is all this Virtualization going? Part Two (a year later)

It's been over a year since Ron Oglesby wrote about where he sees this "virtualization thing" going. It turns out that some of his crazy ideas are coming true. So what does he think now?

Article by Ron Oglesby on October 31, 2007.

XenDesktop Tech Preview delayed until early November

The long-awaited (not really) release of the Citrix XenDesktop Tech Preview that was originally slated for October 29th has been delayed until the early part of November. Whoops.

Article by Gabe Knuth on October 31, 2007.

Is is time for VMware to enter the terminal server / application virtualization market?

In an instant, Citrix went from viewing VMware as a strategic partner to viewing them as Enemy #1. Where does that leave VMware? What if VMware fought back and entered the application virtualization space?

Article by Brian Madden on October 30, 2007.

Citrix to VMware: "Don't let the door hit you on the way out!"

Now that Citrix bought XenSource, they officially compete against VMware. Despite being partners in the past, the two companies are now pretending the other doesn't exist.

Article by Brian Madden on October 26, 2007.

Citrix evolves "Desktop Server" to "XenDesktop"

Today Citrix announced a new product called "XenDesktop" that will be a combination of Citrix Desktop Server, XenServer, and Citrix Provisioning Server (formerly Ardence).

Article by Brian Madden on October 23, 2007.

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.