19. December 2008 by Tony.

Leveraging Citrix virtualization architecture and GoTo products you receive the exact same training experience that you would by attending an on-site class! Students have a classroom training experience that is very similar to traditional face-to-face instruction. They see the same instructor presentations. They hear the same questions other students pose. They get the same course book and they work on the same hands-on labs. They are participating in the same live, instructor-led training event-the only difference being that the instructor isn’t in the same room with them.

Students may then participate from their own location or even from home.

Contact CentriServ for enrollment at CTXonline@centriserv.com or call 1.866.312.7163 for more information.

• CTX-1735: Citrix NetScaler 8.1: Operations, Administration and Advanced Features
• CMB-200-1I: Implementing the Citrix Desktop Delivery Infrastructure
• CTX-1310: Citrix Access Gateway 8.1 Enterprise Edition: Administration
• CTX-1265AI: Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 Platinum Edition: Fast Track
• CMB-301-1I: CCEA for Citrix XenApp 4 Fast Track (Experienced Administrators)

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17. December 2008 by Tony.

VMware lately published a whole bunch of must read technical papers:

Storage Design Options for VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Companies planning to deploy VDI face decisions about the use of both local and shared storage,
and in the case of shared storage solutions, choosing between differing technologies available in
today’s market. Selecting the appropriate storage model is important for both performance and costs reasons. Certain solutions require less overhead than others, as do different implementations of the same technology. Costs can vary greatly depending on which storage options are chosen. Fortunately organizations can leverage a myriad of best practices to help drive these costs down, while improving performance. This paper provides information on technical concepts related to storage implementations in a VMware ® Virtual Desktop Infrastructure ( VDI) environment.

VMware View Reference Architecture Kit

This reference architecture kit is comprised of four distinct papers written by VMware and our supporting partners to serve as a guide to assist in the early phases of planning, design and deployment of VMware View based solutions. The building block approach uses common components to minimize support costs and deployment risks during the planning of VMware View based deployments.

SQL Server Workload Consolidation

Database workloads are very diverse. While most database servers are lightly loaded, larger database workloads can be resource-intensive, exhibiting high I/O rates or consuming large amounts of memory. With improvements in virtualization technology and hardware, even servers running large database workloads run well in virtual machines. Servers running Microsoft’s SQL Server, among the top database server platforms in the industry today, are no exception.

Using IP Multi Cast with VMware

IP multicast is a popular protocol implemented in many applications for simultaneously and efficiently delivering information to multiple destinations. Multicast sources send single copies of information over the network and let the network take responsibility for replicating and forwarding the information to multiple recipients.

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15. December 2008 by Tony.

VMware launched the latest version of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) suite, once known as Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM), now being called VMware View. The new product adds features and tools to help better manage physical and virtual clients, storage, and enterprise applications.

The release demonstrates VMware’s commitment to desktop virtualization in 2009. During September at VMworld 2008, VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz announced the company’s new desktop initiative and dubbed it VMware vClient saying that it would solve the “desktop dilemma.” The vClient initiative is part of several new product offerings to help VMware keep control of the virtual datacenter.

To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, Bright Articles - VMware Moves VDI Forward with the Launch of View 3

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