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Citrix XenApp is the product that really started this whole "desktop virtualization thing" back in the 1990s. (Well, back then it was called Citrix MetaFrame, then MetaFrame Presentation Server, then just Presentation Server, and finally XenApp.) Citrix XenApp is still Citrix's main product. It's used to extend Microsoft Remote Desktop Session Host / Terminal Server environments via server-based computing to users inside and outside of the firewall. I actually wrote two books about Citrix XenApp (well, MetaFrame) in the early 2000s. They're still available online if you want to read them. You can also read the definition of Citrix XenApp at SearchVirtualDesktop.com.

Our post-keynote podcast LIVE from Citrix Synergy 2013 with guests Shawn Bass and Jeroen van de Kamp

Are you missing Synergy this year? Is there just too much information coming out of twitter to make sense of what's happening? We're here to help! Join Jack Madden and myself (with Brian chiming in somehow, despite the fact that he's playing hooky this...

by Gabe Knuth on May 22, 2013 : 0 comments , 1,427 views
Is it too late for Terminal Server live session migration?

Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, most of us in the SBC space dreamed of a Terminal Server feature called "live session migration." We wanted to be able to take a fully running user session from one server and instantly and transparently move it...

by Brian Madden on April 29, 2013 : 15 comments , 4,529 views
ShareFile doesn't (fully) work on XenApp? Now Citrix is making apps that "don't work on Citrix?"

A few weeks ago I was in Phoenix having lunch with (non-tweeting) Hal Lange and Joe Shonk of Thin Client Computing , and over a meat loaf sandwich (which I assume is native Phoenix food), I listened to their stories from the trenches. One such story was...

by Gabe Knuth on April 17, 2013 : 12 comments , 5,804 views
Project VRC's State of the Industry survey results: 32% of VDI is stateless, and over 50% of companies don't use third party UEM. These results and more!

Last year, Project VRC invited people around the world complete an extensive survey that asked them to describe their desktop virtualization environment. 662 people took part in the survey, and since it closed, Project VRC has been busy making sense of...

by Gabe Knuth on March 14, 2013 : 7 comments , 9,817 views
VMware launches Horizon Suite, but it still has a ways to go to meet expectations. Here's our complete analysis:

Today, VMware is launching Horizon Suite , which we first learned about at VMworld last fall. Coming out of VMworld, I remember having the impression that despite being let down in the past by announcements that were never seen through to releases, VMware...

by Gabe Knuth on February 20, 2013 : 5 comments , 11,305 views
Do you have design principles for VDI? How does VDI fit into your broader infrastructure strategy? - Part 1 of 2

In October I wrote a post highlighting that the CapEx Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) focus is drowning out OpEx considerations and asked the question why bother with VDI? This generated some robust comments which essentially argued the following...

by Harry Labana on November 29, 2012 : 4 comments , 6,162 views
Citrix Excalibur, a look at the new management interface, and the end of XenApp? A video from Citrix Synergy Barcelona

One of the first videos we shot from the show floor at Citrix Synergy last week was that of Excalibur, which is the first release coming out of Project Avalon. Announced during the keynote, Excalibur is the unification of XenDesktop and XenApp functionality...

by Gabe Knuth on October 24, 2012 : 6 comments , 13,413 views
Just what, exactly, does Splunk do? Jason Conger explains it all from Citrix Synergy 2012

I had a briefing with Splunk the week before Citrix Synergy, but when I sat down to write about it, I wasn't sure that I could do it justice. The general idea is that Splunk can take any data, any log, from anywhere in your infrastructure and add it to...

by Gabe Knuth on October 22, 2012 : 2 comments , 6,570 views
Gabe's Citrix Synergy Barcelona keynote wrap-up: Merging XenApp and XenDesktop, Mobility, and more. Plus, GTM with Kinect?

Yesterday, Citrix made us laugh, made us cry, and, occasionally, made us groan in awkward agony during the opening keynote of Citrix Synergy Barcelona 2012. The highlight of the show, for me, was Excalibur, which answers years of wishing for a combined...

by Gabe Knuth on October 18, 2012 : 3 comments , 6,415 views
Gabe Knuth, Jack Madden, and Shawn Bass for a live podcast from Citrix Synergy Barcelona

While Brian is jetting about Asia, Gabe, Jack, and Justin are on the scene at Citrix Synergy in Barcelona. We did a live podcast to wrap up the announcements from Mark Templeton's opening keynote, and Shawn Bass was here to help us distill the information...

by Gabe Knuth on October 16, 2012 : 0 comments , 4,224 views
Citrix revises end of life dates for XenApp, but what does that really mean?

Back in January I wrote a blog article called " Citrix plans to end support for XenApp 6.0 in 2013. What's that? You're still migrating to 6.0? " which received over 20 comments and over 15k views. For some, it was a bit of an eye opening as they were...

by Shawn Bass on July 05, 2012 : 0 comments , 7,269 views
Citrix XenApp and Windows Server support and End of Life timeline

Over the past few months I've had more than one conversation about how the product lifecycle for Citrix XenApp and Presentation Server doesn't jive with Microsoft's timeline for Windows Server 2003 R2. If this were true, it would be particularly alarming...

by Gabe Knuth on June 06, 2012 : 1 comments , 10,035 views
Setting the stage for Citrix Synergy (Make a prediction and you could win a signed book!)

With just a few days to go before Citrix Synergy, I thought it would be wise to use today's post to take a look at what we expect to see next week. Synergy doesn't start until Wednesday, but Monday and Tuesday are already full for us with meetings and...

by Gabe Knuth on May 04, 2012 : 14 comments , 7,319 views
Citrix plans to end support for XenApp 6.0 in 2013. What's that? You're still migrating to 6.0?

A few months ago Andrew Wood wrote a nice blog article about the end of life of a number of key XenApp-related products, and it reminded me of some conversions I've been having with a number of my customers about this topic. Like all big vendors, Citrix...

by Shawn Bass on January 17, 2012 : 22 comments , 27,231 views
Citrix Synergy Barcelona Keynote News and Notes

Good Morning! While you may just be getting to the office, I've been awake for a few hours, spoke in a session, and attended the Citrix Synergy Barcelona Keynote. This year, there we announcements aplenty. So many, in fact, that not all of them made it...

by Gabe Knuth on October 26, 2011 : 2 comments , 6,092 views
The impact of Application Virtualization solutions in VDI, THE Reality Check

We ( Sven Huisman , Jeroen van de Kamp and Ruben Spruijt ) are pleased to announce the long awaited release of the Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC) Phase IV whitepaper. As promised: this one does a true deep dive on Application Virtualization in VDI...

by Ruben Spruijt on June 15, 2011 : 4 comments , 12,310 views
Citrix Synergy 2011 Video: Gabe interviews Citrix about What's new in XenApp 7

At Citrix Synergy 2011 in San Francisco, Gabe Knuth talked to Citrix's Ramesh Krishnaram about what's coming in future versions of XenApp . (Citrix didn't specify *when* these features would come, or what the next version of XenApp would be. But all the...

by Justin Meisinger on May 27, 2011 : 0 comments , 6,103 views
Citrix makes XenDesktop Trade-Up program permanent, adds CCU option

Today, Citrix announced some changes to their Trade-Up to XenDesktop program that a lot of people already knew about due to a leak on Twitter a few weeks ago. It's official now that Citrix is making the Trade-up to XenDesktop program a permanent way...

by Gabe Knuth on January 17, 2011 : 2 comments , 9,920 views
Citrix announces XenDesktop 5. Here's our full analysis & what you need to know.

Last week at Citrix Synergy 2010 Berlin, Citrix surprised everyone by announcing XenDesktop 5 , the latest iteration of their main desktop virtualization product suite which will ship by the end of the year. XenDesktop 5 actually has quite a few changes...

by Brian Madden on October 11, 2010 : 17 comments , 137,188 views
What exactly is an "enterprise app store?" (No seriously... what is it?)

There's a lot of talk about "enterprise app stores." I'm not sure what the exact definition of an enterprise app store is, but the analogy most used is something like "imagine Apple's iPhone App Store, except for corporate IT...

by Brian Madden on August 05, 2010 : 28 comments , 12,902 views

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