21. December 2009 by Tony.

During any VDI implementation, independent of the product you plan to utilise, some key components need to be properly and carefully designed in order to avoid pitfalls further down the track, or prepare the infrastructure for future growth.

VDI designs should also go through assessment process, just like any other deployment in the physical world, that should take care for the following: Read More

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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.

Whether you’re currently evaluating VDI or have a full scale deployment your input would be greatly appreciated.

It’s a simple 9 question survey about your experiences. Ideally and depending on response; I plan on following up with a more detailed survey next month perhaps detailing Citrix; VMware and hybrid designs.

http://cafesurvey.com/?tin08veh

Also once completed you’ll be able to see the results.

Thanks again,

Tony

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21. September 2009 by Tony.

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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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