I attened the VDI vs TS presentation this afternoon presented by, the quite possibly mental, Brian Madden. I have to say that I haven’t been to a presentation that frank in a long time, possibly even ever!
I won’t rehash everything from the presentation because you can read the crux of most of the discussions here. [...]
Delivered by Michel Bond & Holger Temme, who are Global Solution Consultants at VMware.
Now that 92% or customers feel confident that mission-critical apps run well on VMware, these have included some of the following in production:
SQL Server
Oracle
IBM DB2
SAP
So there is no reason not to virtualise Citrix XenApp servers. It is very easy to virtualise everything [...]
VMware recently published an article on the Virtual Reality blog that raises some interesting points as to why VMware is better than Xen & Hyper-V.
Some of the areas that get particular analysis are:
Uptime
Direct driver model
Memory management
More interesting still are some of the comments to post, have clearly been made by Citrix & Microsoft employees or [...]
Check out the Smart Citrix Client tool that was written by the guys at Virtual Technologies Software.
A really cool tool that allow fast and simple connection to a MetaFrame Server or a published application and to export the connection to an ICA file.
Works perfectly with lots of customisable options:
Display Settings
Local Devices
ICA Cache
Brilliant and it just [...]