This topic presents an interesting problem. A disk is made up of sectors which are arranged as clusters by the file system. Both NTFS and FAT use a cluster model to clump together sectors into bigger chunks. The cluster model has been around since the original DOS and still runs strong today. The boot sector [...]
Archive for the 'Citrix Ideas' Category
Blocks Versus Files
November 12, 2008ICA Stream - Citrix Product Idea 187
August 18, 2008“ICA Stream” is the oldest idea I have in the product ideas database. It was submitted March 23, 2002. The basic premise was being able to record and playback ICA sessions. This idea later became a part of Project Iris and eventually became a product called “SmartAuditor”. This first submitted idea [...]
Single User ICA Server - Citrix Product Idea 431
August 17, 2008This idea was documented in an email on May 30, 2003. It had been an idea that I had advocated from years before but it seemed like a good time to document it with the hopes that it would get better chances. The basic idea was to sell a single user version of [...]
Session Recovery Idea 422
August 12, 2008Here’s another idea ahead of its time. This one also came from iForum 2003, but from a different customer.
At the time it seemed like a largely unsolvable problem with MetaFrame. This has since changed with the advancement of virtualization and the implementation of XenDesktop.
Here’s the text:
A customer was asking for the ability to recover sessions [...]
Offline Access Idea 2003
August 12, 2008In recent developments Offline VDI has gained much interest. Offline support has been a common request of Citrix for many years. Until virtualization came around, it looked pretty hard to accomplish this goal in a believable way.
I was busy searching for interesting old ideas in the Citrix Product Ideas database and stumbled across [...]
Server Based Computing versus Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
August 3, 2008One of the things I did not see coming was the pending battle between Server Based Computing (SBC) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). This first became obvious at BriForum 2008 with sessions titled such as “SBC vs VDI”. The resulting discussions were very lively and ran throughout all the different VDI discussions. [...]
Visions of Nirvana - Less Is More
February 18, 2008I must commend Chris Fleck at Citrix. He has put forward a vision of a world that does not need laptops as we know them today. In January, Chris posted an article calledThe Nirvana device a Smartphone as a PC alternative on the official Citrix blog site. The idea is brilliant. [...]
Tasting Tomorrow
March 16, 2007You never know where the future might take you. Tomorrow is going to be different from today as today was different from the day before. Even in “Groundhog Day” the same day was different every time. They say that you cannot predict the future. They even say that you can’t go [...]
Files, Folders, and Folly
December 22, 2006The concept of files has been around for quite some time. I just tried to find out how old the idea was but did not find a date. Instead, I found a very exciting entry at Wikipedia about file folders. If you feel you need to know more about how many different [...]
In the Spirit of Innovation
November 6, 2006As you may already know, Citrix has an internal program for gathering product ideas from employees. In a previous post, I asked for customers to submit ideas so that I could forward these ideas into the product ideas database. The good news is that two of you (Alexander and Simon Bramfitt) submitted ideas [...]
