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.

Disk image management in VDI environments: VMware, Ardence, shared disks, and the offline goal

A few weeks ago I wrote about VMware's OnDemand streaming announcement and that it might challenge Citrix's Ardence solution. One potential advantage VMware might have over Ardence is that VMware's solution will work offline. Is offline important in the VDI space? If so, what technological hurdles have yet to be solved, or is everything in place today?

Article by Brian Madden on September 24, 2007.

A sneak peak at Feature Pack 1 for Presentation Server 4.5

Tomorrow, Citrix will release Feature Pack (not Feature Release) 1 for Presentation Server 4.5 to the general public. Michel Roth of ThinComputing.net has put together a great write-up on the new features and changes.

Article by Michel Roth on September 20, 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.

A brief look inside Citrix's Evaluation Virtual Appliances

Thanks to some clever thinking by Citrix and Microsoft, channel partners, consultants, and time-conscious systems admins all over the world (with beefy internet connections) can get a taste of the Application Delivery good life in about 10 hours and 10 minutes with Citrix's Evaluation Virtual Appliances.

Article by Gabe Knuth on September 04, 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.

A short guide to virtualizing Presentation and Terminal servers on VMware ESX 3

Many people would love to virtualize at least part of their Citrix or Terminal Server farms, but so far the performance just hasn’t been up to par (or close enough to make it worthwhile). In this article, René gives you several tips on optimizing your Citrix or Terminal servers for use on virtualized hardware.

Article by Rene Vester on August 28, 2007.

You've heard of Hardware Virtualization and Application Virtualization. Let's look at OS Virtualization.

OS-level virtualization in products like Virtuozzo offers a different take on virtualization than VMware, Xen, Viridian, or SoftGrid. How is OS virtualization different, and is this something that we should be thinking about?

Article by Brian Madden on August 27, 2007.