http://steves.seasidelife.com I'm Steve Richards a strategist and all round tech enthusiast working on enterprise desktop, application delivery and collaboration solutions. I work from home by the coast in the North West of England. All the views expressed in this blog are my own. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:54:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Open source has always been difficult at Microsoft, they've struggled with how to use its obvious value as a development and delivery model, but the SharePoint podcasting kit seems to be a great example of how to do it right.  Although SharePoint itself is unlikely to ever be ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/16/open-source-at-microsoft/ I picked up a few useful bits of information during iForum this week: Citrix predict that between 30 and 50% of people will be mobile by 2010 Some form of rights management is required when delivering to unmanaged PCs.  For example XenApp has a type of rights management, ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/12/some-useful-facts-and-predictions-driving-application-delivery-and-mobility/ This was a very difficult session to follow, so the following notes are not that great Multi-media virtualization to any end point, over the ICA channel Apollo Streaming media 3D graphics Remote audio/video extensions, not in XenDesktop - but it is supported with the Linux Wyse thin ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/11/citrix-multi-media-over-the-ica-channel/ Challenges How do I ensure that users get their own personalised workspace How do I ensure that end user productivity impact is minimised during the migration How do I deal with some continued use of some local applications How do I ensure that my Virtual machines continue to ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/11/iforum-notes-on-res-powerfuse/ Delivered by Steve Maytum - VP - End user platforms Today 54,000 managed XP desktop, two builds.  Modified the Gina to add a "borrow" button to RDP to a CPS environment or RDP to the users desktop PC,  this is similar to what CSC have done, but my ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/11/credit-suisse-case-study-note/ XenDesktop running Vista Client is running XPe Showed AutoCad, great 3D model rotation using 5mb/sec Vista 3D flip worked fine WPF 3D app - patient records system - worked fine Call of duty game - worked ok Full screen video worked well too Still working on high quality audio ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/11/citrix-apollo-demo/ Why change Presentation Server to XenApp? The future is going to be bigger than the past Seen as a way to communicate that Citrix is relevant to the mainstream It simplifies the message What is the advantage of XenApp on XenServer? XenApp itself is not always worth ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/11/iforum-panel-discussion/ Five simple predictions from Citrix with my comments Virtualization will be assumed, the hypervisor will just melt into the hardware, the focus will switch from cost reduction to flexibility and agility Applications will be delivered and not installed, not so sure about this one,  I think its true for ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/11/iforum-five-simple-predictions/ I've had a day at iForum and feel ready to make a few comments on the reality of XenDesktop compared to the position presented by Citrix so far.  First off though I will say that I am impressed by the vision that Citrix presented, the coherence of the vision and the ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/10/xendesktop-some-notes-post-iforum/ I've gained a new respect for marketing since working with some of my colleagues in CSC recently.  However for me marketing needs to work towards 3 key goals: provide a framework that's allows for complexity to be reduced at a high level, but then gradually decomposed to lower levels of detail help ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/10/citrix-marketing-scorecard/ The network load balancer is going through a period of change The concept of a load balancer is still relevant However load balancers need to do more to earn their living, reducing cost, increasing security and optimising traffic The load balancer of the future is best thought of as an Application Delivery ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/10/notes-on-iforum-netscaler/ Delivered by Sumit Dhawan - Senior Director - Desktop Virtualization Group Key points: Current desktop process is slow, complex, insecure and costly to maintain Task workers 30%, Office workers 55%, Mobile workers 15% Office workers seems to me to be way to broad a classification Office workers are characterised as needing a "personalized" environment Task ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/10/iforum-session-desktop-virtualization-is-it-hype/ IGEL is number 3 in thin clients Access is diversifying, computing is centralising - at least that IGELS idea Do PC cards to pu in legacy PCs, traditional thin clients, thin tablets and up to quad head clients Target 5 minute rollout per device! Connect device to KVM How to configure define profiles for each location deploy ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/10/igel-at-iforum/ A few random notes about this session: Applications run businesses Doesn't mention multiple classes of apps Enterprise defined Business area defined Team defined End user defined - work related End user defined - personal Doesn't mention that there may be different approaches to these different classes of apps It seems to me that the: primary benefit delivered by the ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/10/iforum-application-virtualization/ These are the key things that I took away from the iForum keynote by : Mark Templeton at Edinburgh. It's started late! 1 Million Citrix servers currently in operation, in 200,000 companies Citrix NetScaler sits in front of many large scale web sites today, 75% of Internet users touch NetScaler every day Citrix ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/10/a-few-thoughts-on-the-iforum-keynote/