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...
I’ve gained a new respect for marketing since working with some of my colleagues 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I’ve been trying to work through the key questions that need to be answered about VDI by anyone comparing it to the obvious alternatives, these being: A laptop A physical desktop A client side virtual machine, copied or streamed to the PC A web application portal A server hosted desktop...