I had the chance to spend the morning being briefed by VMware on their current VDI offerings and their longer term roadmap, a lot of it is NDA but it’s useful to take a look at the broad themes and to contrast their approach to that of Citrix and to...
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 client At some...
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 be up...
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 modifying the...
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 Works...
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 virtualising, but some...
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 a...
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...