This is certainly old news to most of you. Citrix purchased sepagoProfile back in May 2008 from sepago. sepagoProfile has been rebranded as Citrix User Profile Manager. sepago has produced a white paper about the User Profile Manager for the sake of Citrix.
The User Profile Manager is currently in tech preview and is being supported [...]
Archive for the 'XenDesktop' Category
Sumit Dhawan Speaks About VDI
October 15, 2008
Recently inside Citrix we were notified of a podcast with Sumit Dhawan, Citrix vice president of product marketing. This podcast is available to the public so it seems like a good idea to forward this information on. It is worth listening to since Sumit is very open and honest about VDI and what needs to happen [...]
InfoWorld XenDesktop Review
September 18, 2008
InfoWorld has posted a review of XenDesktop just recently. XenDesktop rated 8.3/10. The review covers the highlights and explains how things fit together. It’s good to see independent analysis.
Richard Croft in Sydney gets credit for finding this one.
Shawn Bass at Geek Speak Live 2008
September 10, 2008Earlier this year, Citrix created a new track as part of Citrix Synergy in Houston. This track, which was called “Geek Speak Live”, was intended to address the more technical aspects of Citrix products. Not only that, it was intended to be largely driven by outside speakers.
The new model was very successful and addressed a [...]
Citrix XenDesktop iPhone Demo
September 8, 2008In June, Adam Jaques from the Advanced Products Group in Sydney demonstrated the Citrix ICA client on an iPhone. The video is on YouTube and can be seen from here:
Keep in mind that this is just a demonstration. If you see this as a valuable thing, please request it either through [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
XenDesktop 2.0 Documentation
May 29, 2008Just this morning I received an email internally about XenDesktop 2.0 documentation. Sometimes it is easy to lose track of this kind of information. Personally I had no idea where it was stored.
Here is a sample of what it has. Click on it to make it readable.
Recent experience says that it pays to read Citrix [...]
XenDesktop Release on May 20 2008
April 20, 2008Citrix has officially announced that XenDesktop will be made available during Citrix Synergy on May 20, 2008. This project has been in the works for more than two years now. It saw a major shift when Citrix acquired Xen Source. Before that the project was more diversified in regards to virtualization. The focus on Xen [...]
