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InstallFree Nexus for Google Drive >COOL!

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:18:00 0500

Google Drive is pretty awesome. It promises the ability to store your stuff in the cloud and work with your documents from your browser. It's not just a file-storage-and-sync service, but a real collaboration platform....

Citrix NetScaler 10: What's New in Security

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:01:00 0500

NetScaler 10 has already created a lot of buzz thanks to some amazing capabilities ? TriScale, Action Analytics, DataStream Enhancements and more ? that have been introduced. And indeed our marketing team has done a fantastic job of creating the buzz using multitude of mediums. Beyond the entire buzz, there are plenty of features that usually go unnoticed but are very much part of the real meat that NetScaler offers. With cloud era ushering to even greater heights ? apart from all the cloud ena...

User Rights Management Can Kill?!

Mon, 14 May 2012 14:42:00 0500

Removing Local Administrator Rights unilaterally can kill user productivity!...

DynamicOps Cloud Automation Center Virtual Resource Manager Data Sheet

Mon, 14 May 2012 14:41:00 0500

A component of DynamicOps Cloud Automation Center, Virtual Resource Manager (VRM) provides automated self service delivery and management of virtual resources in a shared multi-tenant environment. Virtualization has the potential for improving service delivery while reducing capital costs. However, in order to take full advantage of this technology, enterprises must be able to manage it without having their operational costs skyrocket....

The Bright Side of VM Sprawl

Mon, 14 May 2012 11:59:00 0500

At a high level, it is easy to call the proliferation of virtual machines "sprawl" which connotes a negative use of resources. I think there is subtly here that implies not all this "sprawl" is actually bad....

Dell Enhances Desktop Virtualization Enterprise Offerings with Unidesk

Mon, 14 May 2012 11:37:00 0500

Dell is enhancing its Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DVS) portfolio with the introduction of DVS Enterprise with Unidesk, helping to make it easier and more affordable for IT organizations with complex environments or diverse user needs to implement virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI)....

Windows 8 key combinations inside of Hyper-V

Mon, 14 May 2012 11:22:00 0500

Along with the new user experience in Windows 8, we have introduced a number of new Windows-Key shortcut combinations. For example ? Windows Key + C will bring up the charms bar, while Windows Key + Z brings up the application bar. You can read about all of the various options on the Getting around in Windows 8 post on the Windows team blog....

How too many vCPUs can negatively affect your performance

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:43:00 0500

Customer with small vSphere environment of just two hosts had performance issues and they asked me to investigate the situation. When looking at the technical specs at first glance, you would suspect that this configuration should work. With just two hosts, each dual Quad core CPU, the enivornment had a total of 16 CPU cores. In total there were only 9 VMs running using a total of 23 vCPUs. Usually you can easily run 5 vCPUs per core, if not more....

Gartner: Why would we want a private PaaS?

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:29:00 0500

Private PaaS is overcoming existential angst, to really keep me busy in terms of client inquiries....

AppSense to Acquire Mobile IT Company RAPsphere

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:05:00 0500

AppSense, the people-centric computing company, today announced the intent to acquire RAPsphere, a mobile IT company developing mobile information management solutions enabling CIOs to contend with BYOD in the enterprise and the critical need to protect corporate applications and data on mobile devices. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close within the quarter. This will be the first acquisition made by AppSense and will expand the application of use...

CA Technologies Solution Competencies Added to the Cisco Cloud Builder Partner Program

Mon, 14 May 2012 09:45:00 0500

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that channel partners with expert proficiency in CA Automation Suite for Clouds now meet the Cloud Management Competency Validation criteria for the Cloud Builder designation of the Cisco Cloud Partner Program....

Devon IT Launches New ARM-based FX1 Thin Client at Sub-$200 Price Point

Mon, 14 May 2012 09:03:00 0500

Devon IT, Inc., a leading provider of thin client and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) software and hardware solutions, today announced the FX1 thin client, a dual digital display thin client featuring an ARM®-based system-on-a-chip (SoC). The FX1, built around the DM8148 ARM applications processor from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), is designed to provide users with an advanced, high-performance thin client at a low price....

Citrix AppDNA Software Energizes Citrix Partners to Speed Deployments, Provide Deep Insight to Application Migration Issues and Opportunities

Mon, 14 May 2012 09:00:00 0500

Citrix Summit is always an energizing event for channel partners and system integrators ? and this year Summit includes a new topic: accelerating application migrations with the recently acquired AppDNA application management software....

Citrix AppDNA Software Energizes Citrix Partners to Speed Deployments, Provide Deep Insight to Application Migration Issues and Opportunities

Mon, 14 May 2012 09:00:00 0500

Devon IT Announces Powerful New TC6 Thin Client

Mon, 14 May 2012 08:52:00 0500

Devon IT, Inc., a leading provider of thin client and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) hardware and software solutions, today announced the powerful Devon IT TC6 thin client based on AMD's Dual Core G-T56N 1.6 GHz Processor with AMD Radeon? HD 6320 Graphics. The TC6 will be fully manageable by Devon IT's Echo thin client management software....

Citrix XenDesktop Remote PC Feature

Mon, 14 May 2012 08:27:00 0500

Today at Citrix Synergy Citrix announced the Remote PC feature of XenDesktop. This adds another delivery method to the FlexCast model. A lot of people's reaction have been how is this different from what we have already been doing and that this is not a new feature. This is not a new concept, but addresses challenges with the old/current methods. In the blog post I am going to go over the challenges with past/current methods, how this is different, and what additional features Remote PC pro...

Walking through the App-V 5.0 Beta Server Setup (Part 1)

Mon, 14 May 2012 08:25:00 0500

The App-V 5.0 Beta Server is made up 3 components ? Management Server, Publishing Server and the Management Database. The components are dependent but have varying requirements and actions to have them successfully deployed. The goal of this series of blog posts is to walk you through the process of deploying the App-V 5.0 Beta server in your environment....

WHIPTAIL Introduces ACCELA and INVICTA, Changes Speed of the Storage Industry

Mon, 14 May 2012 08:04:00 0500

WHIPTAIL, the world leader in high performance 100% solid state storage arrays, today publicly launched INVICTA, the world's first scale-out, modular, enterprise class solid state storage platform, as well as ACCELA, the next generation of the world's most widely deployed all flash storage array. INVICTA and ACCELA are available now through WHIPTAIL as well as over 100 partners worldwide....

Citrix and the Mobile Enterprise

Mon, 14 May 2012 08:01:00 0500

Citrix has evolved from humble beginnings into a supplier that really can reduce its customers overall costs, deal with a herd of remote computing devices while making the environment manageable and secure....

New Citrix Tech Preview: Multi-tenant VDI Capabilities for Cloud Providers

Mon, 14 May 2012 07:57:00 0500

(Before I get to the exciting news, please note that this Tech Preview is targeted at our nearly 2,000 Citrix Service Providers, who have been waiting for a way to get some of the benefits available with VDI, but have not had a cost-effective Microsoft SPLA-compliant option. If you are an enterprise customer deploying VDI, you already have tons of options with XenDesktop and VDI-in-a-Box.)...

Personalized VDI for less than a PC ? Tech Preview

Mon, 14 May 2012 07:52:00 0500

Citrix announces a technology preview of Project Aruba that extends the simple affordable all-in-one Citrix VDI-in-a-Box with personal vDisk technology to reduce costs by delivering highly personalized virtual desktops with the cost-efficiency of desktop pools. The solution delivers transforms Windows into a simple VDI-based cloud service ....

ExtraHop Networks Builds First-Ever Agentless Performance Monitoring Solution for Citrix Desktop Virtualization

Mon, 14 May 2012 07:38:00 0500

ExtraHop Networks, the leading provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutions, today announced the launch of the first-ever agentless APM solution that is verified Citrix Ready® to be compatible for Citrix XenDesktop®, Citrix XenApp?, and Citrix NetScaler®. With real-time analysis of virtual desktop wire protocols, the ExtraHop Citrix Module for XenDesktop and XenApp enables IT teams to identify and resolve small issues before they become major probl...

Dell Cloud Introduces Simplified Cloud-Enabled Solutions for Running SAP� Applications in the Cloud

Mon, 14 May 2012 05:57:00 0500

Dell Services today announced the first offers in its new Dell Cloud suite for SAP® solutions, further enriching Dell's portfolio in support of SAP solutions. For customers looking to move their SAP solutions into a secure hybrid, public or private cloud, Dell Cloud for SAP Solutions provides two easy-order offers that blend a set of SAP-certified enterprise-class cloud services....

VMware View 5.1 UI Enhancements

Mon, 14 May 2012 05:22:00 0500

I recently wrote about What's New in VMware View 5.1 (Beyond Marketing) and highlighted some of the User Interface modifications in this release of View, including the multi-lingual support....

Citrix Previews XenClient Enterprise (the NxTop stuff... ;)

Mon, 14 May 2012 04:31:00 0500

You have probably already heard the news that Citrix has acquired Virtual Computer. We are excited and eager to incorporate the best features from Virtual Computer's NxTop client hypervisor with Citrix XenClient. The combined product will be called XenClient Enterprise and will be available by the end of next month....

Citrix Gets in the Game - Buys Virtual Computer to Merge with XenClient - AWESOME

Mon, 14 May 2012 04:30:00 0500

Today, Citrix announced the acquisition of Virtual Computer, who is joining forces with us to build the industry's best client virtualization solution....

Centrix Software helps enterprises apply right flavor of virtualization with new analytics in WorkSpace iQ

Mon, 14 May 2012 04:20:00 0500

Centrix Software, a leading provider of workspace computing solutions, today announced a new set of reports within WorkSpace iQ, its award-winning end-user computing analytics solution, which will help desktop and virtualization architects select the best types of virtualization technology based on analytics focused on the user and their technology consumption patterns....

Centrix Software Joins Microsoft System Center Alliance Program

Mon, 14 May 2012 04:16:00 0500

Centrix Software, a leading provider of workspace computing solutions, today announced that it has joined the Microsoft System Center Alliance Program. The company is integrating WorkSpace iQ, an end-user computing analytics solution, with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager....

AppDNA 6.1 Outlines Path to Reach Windows 7 Deadline, Speed Virtualization Projects

Mon, 14 May 2012 04:09:00 0500

This week, Citrix announced AppDNA 6.1, a new version of the application migration software suite coming later this quarter. AppDNA 6.1 will help enterprises reach the Windows XP migration deadline and speed virtualization projects ? making it easier for you or your Citrix partner to install, setup and get started with the AppDNA software. AppDNA 6.1 also will bring further work to combine user, machine and group information from the Citrix Desktop Transformation Accelerator (Lakeside Softwar...

Dell and Red Hat Collaborate for Embedded Solutions through Dell OEM Partner Program

Mon, 14 May 2012 03:56:00 0500

Dell and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced they have signed an agreement to produce Dell and Red Hat hardware/software solutions for IT manufacturers worldwide. Enabling fast time-to-market and considerable cost reductions, Dell OEM Solutions group, as part of its recently announced Dell OEM Partner Program, will offer flexible, integrated systems based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss Middleware Solutions. Now manufac...