Tagged: VDI

IGEL at iForum

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...

iForum Application Virtualization

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...

A few thoughts on the iForum Keynote

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...

Key questions for VDI

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...

iForum objectives

I’m at Citrix iForum in Edinburgh today,  the conference starts tomorrow and lasts for two days.  There are a couple of CSC people giving talks.  I’m not speaking but I will definitely be listening.  I’ve got a few objectives from the next two days: I want to get a general...

Offline VDI

VDI is a pretty cool for a whole host of use cases, but what we really need is a single infrastructure for virtual and physical PCs.  We are nearly there: Citrix provisioning server can stream a base operating system to virtual and physical PCs Application virtualization and streaming can stream...