Archive for the ‘Citrix’ Category

Brian Madden Breathes Fresh Air Into VMworld (2009-2-24)

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.  [...]

AP08 – Virtualizing Citrix XenApp Application Server Session (2009-2-24)

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 Is Best… According To VMware & Me! (2008-7-24)

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 [...]

ICA File Builder (2008-7-21)

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 [...]