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19. August 2009 by Tony.
Well I finally got the portal together: http://serendipity.vdiready.com
And uploaded my recently sanitized VDI assement here
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14. August 2009 by Tony.
— Like the Byzantine Empire before it, IBM has cast another bronze tube meant to spit Greek fire at Microsoft and break its siege of the desktop.The ingredients this time consist of Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system and Virtual Bridges’ Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment (VERDE) 2.0 larded with IBM’s own Smart Client desktop software otherwise known as Lotus Symphony, Notes and Lotus applications, basically e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets, unified communication and social networking.
Together they form the Open Virtual Client Solution (OCCS).
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6. August 2009 by Tony.
Apparently like the Citrix marketing department is making a preemptive strike to the upcoming VMworld conference…
Regardless of motivation, I’ve attendend many of their webinars in the past and have found them worthwhile.
Free education is still Education
Catch them if you can:
In this session, we’ll discuss Best Practices for Simplifying Implementation of Provisioning Services using new features of Provisioning Services 5.1.
You’ll learn about:
Register Below:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/232926936
Join the discussion and get the answers you need on virtualizing your servers and how Citrix® XenServer™ gives you…
Register Below:
http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/events/event.asp?eventID=1855869
Learn how to provide maximum availability, automatic disaster recovery and secure remote access to your Citrix XenApp™ environment with the seamless addition of Citrix® NetScaler™ and Citrix XenServer™.
Register now for this informative seminar — you’ll discover how
NetScaler and XenServer can make your XenApp environment
even more robust by providing:
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to make your XenApp
environment more dependable than ever. Sign up for this
complimentary seminar today!
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http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/events/event.asp?eventID=1856259
If you are seeking to learn more about the most effective way of delivering Windows applications as a service then you don’t want to miss this. Join us as we chat about what makes XenApp a logical choice for application management and virtualization. You will learn about functionality that enables you to centrally manage a single instance of each application and deliver it to users for online and offline use, while providing a better than installed user experience. Attend this webinar and get the answers and insight you need about purchasing or upgrading to XenApp 5.0. Grab your coffee and be part of the discussion!
Attendees will receive a Starbuck’s gift card valued at $5.00
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http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/events/event.asp?eventID=1856255
If you are seeking to learn more about advanced application delivery controllers that improve upon Load balancing and help ensure application availability, increased security, and reduced TCO for web application delivery and cloud computing environments, then you don’t want to miss this. Attend this webinar and get the answers and insight you need about network load balancing technologies. Grab your coffee and be part of the discussion!
Attendees will receive a Starbuck’s gift card valued at $5.00
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http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/events/event.asp?eventID=1856254
Don’t let your basic load balancer hold back your network infrastructure any longer. Join us for this webinar and find out how you can get a smarter, more efficient application delivery network to ensure app availability, increase security and reduce TCO for web applications and cloud computing environments.
Learn how Citrix® NetScaler® delivers more applications to more users including advanced Web 2.0 apps without increasing network & server costs.
In this webinar learn how Citrix NetScaler:
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http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/events/event.asp?eventID=1856101
Join us for this Webinar and hear firsthand from experts at Citrix and CSC how you can cost-effectively implement a more secure and accessible enterprise desktop environment for your workforce. Find out how Citrix and CSC have joined together to deliver desktop virtualization as a managed service to their clients. Also, learn how this technology has transformed the operations of both commercial and public sector enterprises and provided quantifiable business value.
Register now to learn how CSC & Citrix:
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http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/events/event.asp?eventID=1856100
Recently, Guy M Turner, Inc. consolidated their IT infrastructure with XenServer and NetApp and added disaster recovery for servers running everything from specialized trucking to crane management applications.
Join us for a live Webcast to learn how they used NetApp with Citrix XenServer and XenApp to address their challenges.
Specifically, you will learn how Guy M Turner was able to:
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http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/events/event.asp?eventID=1856107
“Once organizations have determined to implement a virtual desktop solution, and the environment has been designed to align with business and user requirements, users must be seamlessly migrated from their physical endpoints to their new virtual desktop. Ideally, users should be unaware their desktop is now virtual. Without building a proper environment and migration plan, users will be forced to learn a new system, reconfigure their application settings, and re-build their personal environment.
This TechTalk focuses on the process, options and recommendations for successfully migrating users from their physical endpoints to virtual desktops.”
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http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/events/event.asp?eventID=1855107
“When an organization identifies the need for a VDI solution, infrastructure architecture must be carefully designed. Virtualizing a user’s physical desktop and migrating the image into the data center will provide a VDI solution, but requires different management, maintenance, and support from a local desktop to meet the needs of the users.
This TechTalk focuses on the core design decisions that impacts the overall virtual desktop design. These decision areas include understanding the users, organizational layout, current organizational infrastructure.”
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http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/events/event.asp?eventID=1855106
“Everyone uses a desktop device, regardless if they are running virtualized applications on XenApp, web-based applications or locally installed applications. While virtual desktops are all the rage in IT, many organizations are trying to figure out where VDI fits within their infrastructure. Some organizations are following an all-or-nothing route where every user is converted to a virtual desktops but many others are trying to align the VDI solution to specific user requirements. When does a user need a full-blown virtual desktop vs. a desktop appliance vs. an offline desktop?
This TechTalk, which is part 1 in a 3-part series, will look at understanding and identifying how organizations should align their users with the correct desktop solution.”
Register Below:
http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/events/event.asp?eventID=1855105
Do you have questions about the best way to rapidly and efficiently deploy virtual desktops; how to handle VDI boot storms; or how to meet demanding recovery requirements necessary to make desktops continuously available? Get answers in real time and watch a brief VDI demo.
Join us for a live online Q&A/chat session with a panel of NetApp and Citrix experts who can answer basic and expert-level questions. You’ll have the opportunity to ask specific questions, as well as see the answers to questions asked by your peers.
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http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/events/event.asp?eventID=1855038
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4. August 2009 by Tony.
Building Citrix Provisioning Server Farm
New Citrix Provisioning Server Farm step by step guide:
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4. August 2009 by Tony.
While you may have seen our yourtube video, Devon IT asked for our help with co-producing a similar video for them.
Perhaps we should go into marketing:
Support for Locally Streamed Desktop Devon IT http://www.citrix.com/tv/#video/676/
Citrix has recently highlighted the ability of XenDesktop to be used to stream the operating system to the endpoint for local execution. The submissions in this category will highlight how the partners’ solutions are ideally suited to receive streamed desktops. Examples of ways to illustrate value are inclusion of the Operating System streaming client and the ability to include hardware resources (CPU, GPU) required for local execution.
Doug Brown : DevonIT did an amazing job showing us a streamed XenDesktop and they explained it all and showed it all in a really “cool” fashion. Good stuff!
Sumit Dhawan : DevonIT demonstrated this the best - showing the most challenging use case
Chris Fleck : DevonIT makes use of the Citrix Provisioning Server Streaming OS feature of XenDesktop yielding a great admin and user experience.
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