25. July 2008 by Tony.

Citrix CEO “The Industry Needs Time to Make Cloud Computing Consumable”
— Referring to Cloud Computing, Citrix CEO Mark Templeton said this week that ‘Customers need the time to get comfortable with it and all that’s different from the proprietary model, and the industry needs time to make it consumable.’ Templeton was speaking to a reporter at the Citrix iForum 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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23. July 2008 by Tony.

I cam across these today while building out our Demo:Reference Architecture: Explains why a 100% physical architecture was reconfigured to include both physical and virtual systems and deciding factors of why XenServer is the best server virtualization solution for XenApp servers.

Implementation Guide: A step-by-step guide showing how to incorporate a XenApp Farm into a XenServer Platinum environment. Demonstrates how to create a golden XenApp image to be provisioned to any number of virtual machines.

Design Considerations: To meet the needs of the business, a solution like XenServer for XenApp must allow for design decisions. This article focuses on a few of the major considerations when integrating these solutions together.

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18. July 2008 by Tony.

VMware has announce their Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solution Track for the reseller Channel. But, if your not a reseller you can get a quick overview from solutiontracks.com

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16. July 2008 by Tony.

I had the pleasure of seeing this demo at Citrix Synergy a few weeks ago and was rather impressed. Essentially, each employee is equipped with a USB stick that allows Web-based access to security-rich servers installed at an IBM® recovery center. In an emergency, you activate the technology by choosing an appropriate scenario and initiating contact with employees.

During an emergency the service combines IBM’s continuity management, notification, and a roll call of available employees with Citrix GotomMYPC and Xenapp to allow access to Applications, Desktops, News, Chat and interaction tools.

While Pricing wasn’t readily available at the time the discussion indicated that it would be a per month/user fee and at the time it seemed that it would be surprisingly inexpensive

Check it out :

Video Demo

Data Sheet

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16. July 2008 by Tony.

Going Green, Virtually.That’s right. No office. No commute. No paper. We don’t require team members to punch a time clock. No spending wasted hours in traffic driving to work just to sit in a desk much farther away from one’s home and family.

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