Here’s another idea ahead of its time. This one also came from iForum 2003, but from a different customer. At the time it seemed like a largely unsolvable problem with MetaFrame. This has since changed with the advancement of virtualization…
One of the things I did not see coming was the pending battle between Server Based Computing (SBC) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). This first became obvious at BriForum 2008 with sessions titled such as “SBC vs VDI”. The resulting…
Just this morning I received an email internally about XenDesktop 2.0 documentation. Sometimes it is easy to lose track of this kind of information. Personally I had no idea where it was stored. Here is a sample of what it…
Citrix has officially announced that XenDesktop will be made available during Citrix Synergy on May 20, 2008. This project has been in the works for more than two years now. It saw a major shift when Citrix acquired Xen Source. …
Brian Madden was in Sydney recently and got the chance to gather more detail about PortICA from the actual developers. As expected, he has taken the time to summarize his findings in a recent post about PortICA. It is a…
Did you know that typeface with Terminal Services is usually downgraded from the usual local experience? Microsoft has the ClearType technology which normally improves the look of text by rounding the edges with different colors giving the characters more rounded…
During Summit 2008, a video was released from Mark Templeton. The video is fairly brief and summarizes the current visions of Citrix. At this time, the concept of XenApp was first introduced. The video seems to be missing the typical…
Some people have had trouble downloading the XenDesktop Beta (Feb 2008) and I concluded that at least I could help by providing the XenDesktop Getting Started Guide online. The guide is provided with the download kit so this is really…
For those of you following XenDesktop news, there is now confirmation that the XenDesktop Beta has begun. This is not to be confused with the Citrix XenDesktop Tech Preview which came out last year. Internally this is viewed as being…
Citrix has officially announced the name change for what was called “Citrix Presentation Server”. The original NDA announcement came during Citrix Summit and it was quickly written about on the web. I’ve been avoiding the topic like the plague since…
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