23. March 2009 by Tony.

Join us for a Webinar on March 24th

Join CentriServ for a look at the newest versions of XenServer, Provisioning Server, XenApp and XenDesktop. Learn how the latest in Citrix Virtualization can save your company money, management time and resources.

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6. February 2009 by Tony.

While I’v just begun looking at their products I have to admit that the marketing is rather unique…

Check out the movie:

vmSight - the Movie

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14. January 2009 by Tony.

from Raj’s Blog

A Few months ago we did a bakeoff between Vmware VDI and Citrix Xendesktop solution.
Few things that are worth a mention for differences between these:
1. Citrix ICA protocol for remote desktop connectivity is better with multimedia apps than RDP 5.x.
2. Both RDP and ICA are bandwidth hogs, ICA might be slightly better over low latency link. Average bandwidth usage over WAN without any policing/acceleration technology was 300kbps with both ICA and RDP.
3. Citrix Presentation server has a great option of saving the disk space for multiple cloned desktops and also upgrading/patching only one master image and refreshing all desktops from it.
4. Citrix Access gateway for secure connectivity from outside seems like a separate purchase.(didn’t test it)

We didn’t go ahead with the whole project at that time.
Now Vmware has announced availability for VMware view that addresses point # 1,3 and 4 above. We are currently doing a bake off of vmware view and I will soon post how it went.

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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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15. July 2008 by Tony.

In doing some research for an upcoming presentation I discovered that many  power companies are now offering rebates to clients for deploying solutions that reduce energy consumption. On such piece of Software is  Power Save by Foroncis, Power company rebates range from 10% - 100% of the purchase price!

You have to love  the fact that the power company pays for your software AND you svae money on your power bill as well.

While you will have to do some homework anf fill out the appropriate forms presenting this concept at the next board meeting is a no-brainer

You can Demo Power Save HERE 

and below is a partial list of power companies and their incentives :

Silicon Valley Power: 80% Rebate
State: California

Pacific Gas & Electric: 100% rebate
State: California

Southern California Edison: 100% rebate
State: California

San Diego Gas and Electric: 100% rebate
State: California

Sacramento Municipal Utility District: $10/license
State: California

Wisconsin Energy Corporation: 50% rebate
State: Wisconsin

BC Hydro: $3/license
Province: British Columbia

Manitoba Hydro: 100% rebate
Province: Manitoba

Bonneville Power Administration (BPA): 100% rebate
State: Washington, Montana, Oregon, Idaho

Oregon Department of Energy: 35% rebate
State: Oregon

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