Free to Shop: Citrix Dazzle delivers virtual app store
Self service, drag and drop application provisioning store, combined with desktop personalization features, give end users more control of their virtualized desktops.
View ArticleHiding in plain sight
This company is doing the annual bill-of-materials update to its ERP system, and it turns out the easiest way to get the update tool working for dozens of users is virtualization. But not everyone is...
View ArticleWhich white knight will save Novell?
Investors pray for a quick payday. Wall Street's view? No way.
View ArticleFrom bare metal to pay as you go: Citrix bares all
Among the more interesting developments at Synergy: A pay as you go NetScaler app accleration appliance, bare metal implementation of McAfee software that runs alongside the XenClient hypervisor are...
View ArticleTaming the laptop
Laptops have always been a challenge to manage and frankly not a lot has changed to improve the situation recently. Recently Citric announced availability of trial downloads of their client hypervisor....
View ArticleIntel's purchase of McAfee is a head scratcher
Intel's intended acquisition of McAfee for $7.68 billion is a real head-scratcher. They could have purchased comparable security technology or more attractive security businesses for much less. This...
View ArticleCardiac unit resuscitated by paper after virtual PCs go dark
A Citrix upgrade gone bad shows why virtual PC environments must be held to a higher standard of performance and availability than the desktop computers they replace.
View ArticleGoogle and other titans form Open Networking Foundation
Google, Facebook and Microsoft are among the heavy hitters of the tech industry that have teamed up to support a new, cloud-focused initiative called Software-Defined Networking (SDN).
View ArticleSuspended virtual desktops: Approach with caution
Suspending active virtual Windows desktops and the applications running within them may let users get back to work faster but it's not exactly a recipe for stability.
View ArticlePublished desktops versus virtual machines: Citrixs hosted shared virtual...
Virtual desktops without VDI: So what's the catch? Insider (registration required)
View ArticleThree tech companies pull ads from Limbaugh show; LifeLock remains and should...
Three tech companies did the right thing by pulling their advertising from Rush Limbaugh's right-wing radio show after Limbaugh called a female law student a "slut," and "prostitute." But the security...
View ArticleYour best resources are right next door
In the government sector we are all having to face reduced budgets, reduced staffing, reduced resources, while also facing increased workloads, increased demands and an ever changing technology...
View ArticleI think we've found a work-around
User calls this support pilot fish to report he can't launch any applications from Citrix on his home computer. And because it's company policy to guarantee Citrix access from any employee's machine,...
View ArticleWindows Phone still fails in the enterprise, says Citrix report
Windows Phone still hasn't managed the crack the enterprise, and has only a 7% share in new adoptions in corporations, according to a recent report by Citrix. That number hasn't budged since the last...
View ArticleAnother highly complex virtualization issue solved
This user in a government agency is the guinea pig for a new Citrix system, and the level-3 support pilot fish responsible for the project is pretty sure there won't be any help from levels 1 and 2....
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