22. December 2009 by Tony.

Just plain funny:

Welcome to the Virtual Desktop Challenge with Brian Madden. Play this “Jeopardy” style game and test your knowledge in the virtual desktop space. Top point scorers are eligible for prizes so play now and see if you are an expert on virtual desktop!

http://www.virtualdesktopchallenge.com

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21. December 2009 by Tony.

ABSTRACT:

Today’s businesses are tasked with providing the most effective work environment for their users, while meeting budgetary restrictions and maintaining security initiatives. In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchVirtualDesktop.com and Citrix, you will discover how virtual desktops can be used to meet the growing demands of today’s businesses. Gain insight into the significant benefits associated with virtual desktop technology and explore the top ways VDI can be used to improve the security of your organization. Learn how to determine whether or not available virtual desktop technologies will meet your users’ needs and enhance their work capabilities. Get it here

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6. October 2009 by Tony.

Citrix’ announced today a “Trade Up” program whereby existing Citrix XenApp customers can get XenDesktop licenses at a significant discount. Also, if you trade up 100% of your XenApp licenses you’ll get two for one!

Personally I think this move is a stroke of genius. Strategically; if you already have XenApp (which most enterprises do) why would you consider any other VDI product? Couple this with the fact that XenDesktop is hypervisor agnostic and that you can even run the XenDesktop agent on physical PC’s (see http://vdiworx.com/category/pandemic/) and XenDesktop is a slam dunk!

• Trade-up all active XenApp licenses at once, get 2X the XenDesktop 4 licenses
• Trade-up your XenApp licenses, save between 50%-80% on XenDesktop 4
• Trade-up includes 12 months of Subscription Advantage on XenDesktop 4

 Want some more info? Try www.citrix.com/tucalculator and see for yourself then email for a “Trade Up” quote today

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21. September 2009 by Tony.

Load balancers are required to fairly distribute traffic among multiple servers. Organizations should not have to purchase expensive load balancers to fully utilize their server infrastructures. With Citrix NetScaler VPX, they can evaluate an advanced load balancer for FREE.

NetScaler VPX Express provides a free load balancer that can be used in almost any environment. With the NetScaler VPX Express, organizations can:

• Load balance client requests for free
• Offload servers of process-intensive tasks for free

The free NetScaler VPX Express load balancer enables any company to test the industry’s most advanced load balancer at no cost. Even though it’s a free load balancer, NetScaler VPX Express still provides full NetScaler load balancing and traffic management. As a free load balancer, NetScaler VPX Express can be installed on off-the-shelf servers to provide the most affordable load balancing in the industry. Not only can organizations evaluate the load balancer for free, but they can smartly select the most economical server hardware to meet their particular load balancer requirements. The free NetScaler load balancer is ideal for small and medium size organizations that are just getting started with high-volume web applications.

To download the free NetScaler load balancer, please click here to download NetScaler VPX Express

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8. September 2009 by Tony.

a few questions to ponder:

If I take one disk image and stream it to 1000 Physical thin client devices devices using Citrix Provisioning Server  (not quite VDI) what licenses do I need?

According to the VECD Licensing guide:

These two diagrams illustrate the two core architectures possible with Microsoft VDI: static and dynamic.

In static mode, there is a one-to-one mapping of VMs to users. The more users you have, the more VMs you need.

VMs are stored on a SAN or NAS and execute on the server. Desktops are presented on the PC or thin client, depending on the situation.

In a dynamic [Centralized] architecture there is only one master image. Instead of having to manage many dedicated images, you support one image that is automatically replicated as needed for users.

One would think that if you’re using bare mental provisioning you would NOT need a VECD license as the image is running on the local device.

After all VECD stands for “Virtual Enterprise Centralized Desktop”

Any comments?

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