<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?><rss version='2.0'><channel xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'><title>BrianMadden.com - Industry Buzz</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com//content/section/</link><description>WCMS Articles By Section</description><copyright>All rights reserved</copyright><language>en-US</language><managingEditor>brian@brianmadden.com</managingEditor><image><title>Your Independent Application Delivery Resource</title><url>http://www.brianmadden.com/logos/brianmaddenmedshadow.gif</url><link>http://www.brianmadden.com</link></image><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Citrix Virtual Design Studio enters beta. Requires OpenGL and x64. Wait... what?</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Citrix-Virtual-Design-Studio-enters-beta-Requires-OpenGL-and-x64-Wait-what</link><description><![CDATA[ Michael Chang, a marketing manager at Citrix responsible for this beta program, just emailed me a PowerPoint presentation about this product. I&#39;ve attached it above.Citrix Virtual Design Studio. Is this the product that was announced at Summit a few months ago that lets you design your Citrix...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:25:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>5697</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>A short guide to virtualizing Presentation and Terminal servers on VMware ESX 3</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/A-short-guide-to-virtualizing-Presentation-and-Terminal-servers-on-VMware-ESX-3</link><description><![CDATA[Basic tips to help virtualize Terminal Servers and Citrix Servers on ESX3Sever Based Computing has, for a long time now, been the most used method of centralization and consolidation of applications. Bringing applications to the user without the worries of physical location has been a key aspect in...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:53:39 GMT</pubDate><guid>5540</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>DeNamik releases the free LoadGen 1.1 </title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/DeNamik-releases-the-free-LoadGen-11-</link><description><![CDATA[Daniel Nikolic has just released version 1.1 of their LoadGen tool. This tool is completely free for simulating loads of up to 150 users per server. (You can buy licenses for more users if you want to go higher than that.) The idea behind LoadGen is that it is a dirt-simple tool that can run and...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:40:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>687</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Updated: Lanmanserver and Lanmanworkstation Tuning</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Updated-Lanmanserver-and-Lanmanworkstation-Tuning</link><description><![CDATA[Fileserving in Windows environments is usually of critical importance. After all, if you can't reach your files or have to wait five minutes every time you browse a share, the heat starts to build up in the IT department.<br/> File serving is more than just saving a file to your home directory. I...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>598</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>The Excruciating Detail of the Citrix Logoff Process</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/The-Excruciating-Detail-of-the-Citrix-Logoff-Process</link><description><![CDATA[Several months ago, Kevin Goodman and I created a huge wall chart that detailed all of the steps in the Citrix Presentation Server logon process. Due to popular demand, we've just created a similar chart for the Citrix Presentation Server Logoff Process.<br/><br/>You can get this thing right now be...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>627</guid></item><item><category>White Papers</category><title>An in-depth review of DeNamiK's free LoadGen stress test utility</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/An-in-depth-review-of-DeNamiKs-free-LoadGen-stress-test-utility</link><description><![CDATA[This White Paper provides a review of the DeNamiK LoadGen from This 18-page technical review is based on the very first beta version of the product, as well as discussions with the product architects on what we should expect with the final release.<br/>From the paper summary:<br/>It was surprising...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2006 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>594</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Citrix buys Application Performance Management vendor Reflectent. Is this a YAM?</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Citrix-buys-Application-Performance-Management-vendor-Reflectent-Is-this-a-YAM</link><description><![CDATA[Those of you who attended Citrix iForum last October (or who To analyze this deal, let?s first look at what an APM vendor is. (We?ll get to the ?YAM? part later.) Traditionally, server monitoring products (such as Citrix Resource Manager, Lakeside Systrack, or Microsoft Operations Manager) have...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>589</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>The excrutiating detail of the Citrix logon process: A huge wall chart</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/The-excrutiating-detail-of-the-Citrix-logon-process-A-huge-wall-chart</link><description><![CDATA[Kevin Goodman and I spent some time together last month and put together this huge, poster-sized, very detailed chart that details the entire Citrix logon process. It was for a session that we gave at BriForum a few weeks ago. And of course, now that we're done, we're releasing it for...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>587</guid></item><item><category>Videos</category><title>BriForum 2005 Video: Tim Mangan on Measuring Perceived Performance of Virtual Machines</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/BriForum-2005-Video-Tim-Mangan-on-Measuring-Perceived-Performance-of-Virtual-Machines</link><description><![CDATA[In this session perceived performance?a technique to measure terminal server performance in terms relevant to your users?is explained. Results of recent tests involving both real and ?virtual servers? are presented, with an eye toward understanding how to improve perceived performance in the virtual...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>568</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Troubleshooting Slow Citrix and Terminal Server Logons</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Troubleshooting-Slow-Citrix-and-Terminal-Server-Logons</link><description><![CDATA[What exactly is a slow logon? It depends on your environment. Some companies have logon processes that complete in a few seconds, while others take a few minutes. Unfortunately, there are some environments in which the logon process takes several minutes; even 20-30 minutes is not unheard of. This...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>564</guid></item><item><category>Product Reviews</category><title>60-second review: Citrix Automatic Farm Tuner</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/60-second-review-Citrix-Automatic-Farm-Tuner</link><description><![CDATA[A while back, Citrix released the Automatic Farm Tuner. What does it do? How can it improve your farm's performance? We checked it out for you.<br/>The Automatic Farm Tuner&nbsp; can be used to tweak the data collectors in your farm for optimal performance. It is primarily intended for use in large...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:35:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>562</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>An ADM template file for tuning Citrix zone data collectors</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/An-ADM-template-file-for-tuning-Citrix-zone-data-collectors</link><description><![CDATA[<br/>There are several registry settings that you can use to tweak the performance of the data collectors in your Citrix Presentation Server farm. Here is an ADM template you can use to control this via group policy objects.<br/>CLASS MACHINECATEGORY "System"CATEGORY "Citrix data collector...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>561</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Microsoft White Paper: 64-bit Terminal Services Scaling and Performance</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Microsoft-White-Paper-64-bit-Terminal-Services-Scaling-and-Performance</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft just released a white paper that details their lab test results for scalability testing of Terminal Server running on 64-bit Windows Server 2003. The authors of the paper did lab testing using 32- and 64-bit Windows on three different servers:<br/><br/>2 CPU, 16GB RAM<br/>4 CPU, 32GB...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>548</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>BriForum 2005 Session Videos: A new one posted every week through BriForum 2006</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/BriForum-2005-Session-Videos-A-new-one-posted-every-week-through-BriForum-2006</link><description><![CDATA[It's been just over six months since BriForum 2005, our independent technical server-based computing conference. BriForum was awesome, but one of the problems with it was that only about 250 people were able to come, and our website gets hundreds of thousands of visitors every month.<br/>Therefore...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>515</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Tim Mangan releases free Perceived Performance Toolkit for Citrix Servers</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Tim-Mangan-releases-free-Perceived-Performance-Toolkit-for-Citrix-Servers</link><description><![CDATA[Tim Mangan has been writing about ?perceived performance? of Citrix servers for almost two years. (Read his original paper about the perceived performance of Citrix servers, and a newer paper about the perceived performance of virtual machines.) Basically, his theory is that it doesn?t really matter...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2005 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>478</guid></item><item><category>War Stories</category><title>War Story: The Most Important Spooler Hotfix</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/War-Story-The-Most-Important-Spooler-Hotfix</link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to share a recent experience I had with respect to a migration project from NT4 (MF 1.8) to Win2k (MF XP). I'm presently engaged in a project for a large Fortune 500 insurance company that is in the process of wrapping up their migration. (I know.. NT4 is unsupported, blah, blah.. Anyway,...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>312</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Terminal Server with 8 CPUs and 8GB RAM: How does it scale?</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Terminal-Server-with-8-CPUs-and-8GB-RAM-How-does-it-scale</link><description><![CDATA[Those of you who read this site often know that I don?t usually just post links to other documents. (After all, that?s what Google is for, right?). However, every so often I come across a paper that is fantastic and deserves recognition.<br/>Today I?d like to point out a paper by Dr. Bernhard...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>302</guid></item><item><category>Product Reviews</category><title>60-Second Review: WMSoftware Relevos 2.0</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/60-Second-Review-WMSoftware-Relevos-20</link><description><![CDATA[Installation<br/>The Relevos installation is very straightforward. You?re asked to answer the standard questions such as confirming the license agreement, user information, and installation location. Because Relevos licensing is based on processors, the installation also asks you how many processors...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>300</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame Network Performance Troubleshooting (Part 2 of 2)</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Terminal-Server-and-Citrix-MetaFrame-Network-Performance-Troubleshooting-Part-2-of-2</link><description><![CDATA[This article is Part 2 of a series. I highly recommend that you read Part 1 first.<br/>Building a Network Test Lab<br/>Before you can even begin trying to design and implement a solution, you?ll need to configure a test lab. This is one of the areas where it really doesn?t make sense to try to make...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>295</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame Network Performance Troubleshooting (Part 1 of 2)</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Terminal-Server-and-Citrix-MetaFrame-Network-Performance-Troubleshooting-Part-1-of-2</link><description><![CDATA[This is part one of an article that's turning out to be a lot longer than I expected. I wanted to put it out here to get your feedback so far. Today's section discusses the various networking characteristics and how they affect Citrix and Terminal Server, and how you can figure out if they're...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:10:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>293</guid></item></channel></rss>