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Accelerated SSO SSLVPN Access to Citrix XenDesktop

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:04:00 0500

How often have you found that there is a lot of "How To" or run-book style documentation out there, but none of them seem to completely address the combination of your requirements? And while you have expertise in one or more product areas, have you found that making the pieces work together seems challenging sometimes?...

Startup Sheds Light On Virtual Machine Network Traffic

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:03:00 0500

Virtualization does more than just consolidate servers in the data center, although that's been its primary role. Virtualization opens up the opportunity to manage servers in new ways. By watching traffic between virtual machines and from virtual machines over the network, Xangati has produced a new management tool....

Devon IT Announces Zero Client Solution with PC-over-IP� Capability

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 0500

Devon IT announced the availability of its TC10 zero client model to meet the needs of users requiring high-powered virtual desktop functionality....

How To Personalize Your Virtual Desktop Environment Using AppSense Environment Manager

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:59:00 0500

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a solution for client computing that offers a wide range of benefits over the traditional ways of deploying user desktops. This document looks at how VDI compares to the existing solutions, discusses their strengths and weaknesses and then looks at some of the management challenges that need to be addressed to build a successful VDI implementation. Particular focus is paid to the management of the user?s ?personality profile? - the combination of corporat...

Citrix Asks "What is Consumption Based Licensing?"

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:00 0500

The best representation of this type of license is a service such as mobile phones. For years now consumers have paid for usage when it comes to mobile phone services. Starting with voice, you pay so much per month for each voice "minute" used. The currency can be different but typically the unit of measure is the same... minutes per currency. ...

How to Migrate Unstructured Data to the Cloud

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:53:00 0500

Growth in the population of unstructured files will soon drive 75 percent of the demand for new storage capacity. By providing an allocation of cloud storage to users, storage and desktop services managers can effectively place storage management of user files into the hands of the departments, with built-in chargeback mechanisms that make them pay for the storage used....

Wyse Software and Hardware Innovations Deliver Unprecedented TCO, Security, Manageability and User Experience for Client Virtualization Environments to Support Private and Public Clouds

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:46:00 0500

Wyse Technology announced the availability of its highest performing thin clients based on a software solution designed to significantly increase security across virtual clients. The new Wyse C10LE and V10LE include in the latest version of Wyse ThinOS, the industry's most popular purpose-built thin client software....

3PAR Adds Sub-Volume Tiering, SSDs to Arrays

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:43:00 0500

3PAR has combined automated sub-volume data movement with solid-state disk (SSD) drives to squeeze more performance out of its high-end InServ Storage Servers at a lower overall cost compared to Fibre Channel configurations. ...

Elastra Offers Trial Version of Enterprise Cloud Server for VMware vSphere 4

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:39:00 0500

Elastra Corporation, the leading provider of application infrastructure automation software, today announced the availability of a free trial version of Elastra Enterprise Cloud Server (ECS) for VMware vSphere 4 customers....

Enabling the Desktop of the Future - On-Demand Webinar

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:48:00 0500

How will IT teams enable the desktop of the future? What technology and best practices will IT use to manage and deploy applications? What role will application virtualization play, and what tools will help IT move to application virtualization? How will IT prepare 64-bit applications for deployment to Windows 7? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this Webinar. Want to know how one IT team converted 150 MSI packages to App-V overnight? Watch this Webinar....

Today's New Virtualization Related Community Videos - March 11th, 2010

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:30:00 0500

The following new virtualization related videos we added to the DABCC Community Video show where we try to find the best new virtualization videos on the net so you dont have to: Citrix Receiver 1.2 Announcement Video...

Xangati Releases Xangati for ESX - Live Enterprise-wide Virtualization Visibility

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:13:00 0500

Xangati today released two groundbreaking new products ? Xangati for ESX and the Xangati Management Dashboard. Designed to decrease the management burdens of virtualization experts, Xangati?s new line of virtual appliances offers extensive monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities like no other solution on the market today and does so at a fraction of the cost. To take a free test drive and see what you?ve been missing....

Citrix Releases Receiver 1.2 for Windows

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:12:00 0500

Citrix just released Citrix Receiver for Windows 1.2 for download. Citrix Receiver for Windows together with the Citrix Merchandising Server is used to deliver enterprise computing as a service....

Citrix Releases Receiver for Mac v1.2 for Download

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:10:00 0500

Citrix just released Citrix Receiver for Mac v1.2 for download! With Receiver for Mac, along with Citrix XenApp and Dazzle, you will be able to search for and run Windows apps as if they were locally installed on your Mac....

Download Xangati for VMware ESX ? Virtualization Visibility / Management

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:04:00 0500

Xangati for ESX provides first of its kind video-like visibility into the virtual communications traversing a vSwitch within the same host. Xangati?s plug and go installation will eradicate the blind spots that have cost customers like you dearly?in terms of project delays, higher than planned budgets and a lingering set of performance issues that often burn up cycles you don?t have....

Citrix Releases Dazzle 1.1.1 for Download

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:02:00 0500

Citrix just released Citrix Dazzle 1.1.1 for download. Citrix Dazzle is a self-service ?storefront? for enterprise applications....

Citrix Releases Merchandising Server 1.2 Virtual Appliance for Download

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:00:00 0500

Citrix just released the Citrix Merchandising Server 1.2 virtual appliance for download. ...

DroboElite Does VMware vSphere

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:49:00 0500

Last week I outlined how I go about provisioning my own lab for testing virtualization and supporting blogging efforts. One of the key points of my ability to have a functional lab is a shared storage device. I use the DroboPro iSCSI storage device. Since I purchased the unit, the Elite version has been released. While the DroboPro and DroboElite are candidates for home or test labs, Data Robotics (makers of the Drobo series) are positioning themselves well for the SMB virtualization market....

The Next Hurdle for Virtualization Technology

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:59:00 0500

As the VMware Express begins its journey across North America - perhaps, rolling into a city near you, there are many out there who don't need to be sold on the benefits of virtualization technology....

Virtual Desktop Start-up Targets VMware and Citrix Users

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:55:00 0500

A virtual desktop start-up Unidesk is aiming to improve deployments of VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop with management software that it says reduces storage costs and gives users a more personalized desktop than the VDI tools by themselves....

VMware releases Tomcat-based Server for Spring

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:53:00 0500

When VMware purchased SpringSource last summer, there wasn't a lot of product overlap between the companies. With today's release of tc Server for Spring, the two companies are moving their product lines together to cover the gaps between their platforms. This new version of tc Server is based on Tomcat and SpringSource's Hyperic monitoring tools....

Virtual Machine Backup Leader, PHD Virtual, Names Thomas Charlton Chairman and CEO

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:52:00 0500

PHD Virtual Technologies, award winning provider of esXpress VM Backup, the fastest multi-VM backup and restore solution on the market, today announced that Thomas Charlton has been appointed Chairman and CEO by the PHD Virtual board of directors. Charlton has more than 20 years of leadership experience in emerging technology ventures, leading past companies to increased profitability and successful acquisitions....

EMC Turns Storage Management Over to VMware Admins

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:50:00 0500

EMC this week boosted its data protection and storage management capabilities for VMware (NYSE: VMW) environments and also unveiled a new email archiving and compliance product....

How to Deploy and Configure CItrix HDX MediaStream for Flash

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:45:00 0500

The following Citrix support article describes how to deploy and configure HDX MediaStream for Flash....

FalconStor And Violin Add SSD To NSS

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:42:00 0500

While I had been waiting for FalconStor to add flash support to their Network Storage Server (NSS) storage virtualization software, I was expecting flash volumes off a Fusion-IO or TMS PCIe flash card with promises of automated tiering to arrive sometime before Snow White's prince. I was pleasantly surprised when the folks at FalconStor called to tell me they were aiming a little higher than that and using Violin's solid state memory array as a cache....

GreenBytes GB-X Series Storage Appliances Achieve Citrix Ready Certification

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:59:00 0500

GreenBytes announced that the company's GB-X Series of inline deduplication storage appliances have been certified as Citrix Ready. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix. ...

Citrix Webinar: Transforming Healthcare with Desktop Virtualization

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:09:00 0500

Delivering desktops as a service to users anywhere is already a reality that can be easily implemented, and is precisely the solution for tackling the challenges that healthcare IT is facing today. Virtual computing can help you dramatically reduce costs, improve patient care and satisfaction, and enhance operational efficiencies to meet your organizational challenges head on. ...

Cloud Computing and The Death of the Sysadmin

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:00 0500

For as long as there have been computer systems, there have been system administrators. These hardy souls are the glue of data centers, provisioning and managingsystems: a mix of hardware, storage, OS, middleware, and application software. The best system administrators are like human Swiss Army Knives, armed with every skill needed to keep a system up and humming. In some respects, system administrators function like auto mechanics, needing keen diagnostic skills and repair capabilities to kee...

Xangati Tackles Virtualization System Blind Spots

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:58:00 0500

Virtualization technologies offer IT departments the opportunity to maximize resources and consolidate hardware, but virtual systems often hide much of the data network managers need to track performance and troubleshoot problems. Network management start-up Xangati this week released a suite of virtual appliances designed to apply Xangati?s traffic monitoring expertise to virtual systems communications, making it possible to better manage application performance in the virtual realm....

Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac vs. Competition

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:55:00 0500

Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac beat the competition and Parallels Desktop 4 in a recent independent comparison test....