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  • A Look at Microsoft "Hyper-V Server" on a Notebook

    Summary This article is a personal look at trying the Microsoft Hyper-V Server. It is not a formal "review", but more of a personal observation, in trying to use the product differently than perhaps Microsoft intended. In this article, a look...
    by Tim Mangan , November 30, 2008 : 8 comments , 940 views

  • Do you think VMware is catching up to Citrix in the desktop space? Balderdash! Citrix needs to catch up to VMware.

    I heard an analyst the other day who said that with VMware's View and vClient announcements over the past few months, they were finally starting to catch up to Citrix in the desktop space. "Are you kidding me?" I thought. "The tables...
    by Brian Madden on November 25, 2008
    19 comments , 3,810 views

  • How should we do product reviews on BrianMadden.com?

    One of the best things about being part of TechTarget is that Gabe and I can spent a lot more time writing. In the very old days (of 2003), I did a fair amount of honest-to-goodness products reviews. We haven't really done too many (if any?) of these...
    by Brian Madden on November 24, 2008
    8 comments , 765 views

  • The Best of Two Worlds in App-V

    In our latest master level training class on Microsoft App-V 4.5 in Boston last week, Christopher Cawvey asked a question that lead us down an unexpected path; through it we may have discovered a new way to deploy virtual applications to terminal servers...
    by Tim Mangan on November 23, 2008
    4 comments , 1,292 views

  • Details about Microsoft Calista start to emerge, but much is still unknown

    It's been almost a year since Microsoft bought Calista Technologies , a non-shipping set of technologies that leverages host and client-based GPUs for 3D and multimedia remoting. Since the acquisition, Microsoft has been mum about the technology....
    by Brian Madden on November 21, 2008
    6 comments , 1,721 views

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  • BrianMadden.com is now part of TechTarget

    I'm happy to announce that we have been acquired by TechTarget . This is really cool because it means that Gabe and I can focus 100% on writing and interacting with the community, and we don't have to be weighed down by all the operational minutia...
    by Brian Madden on November 20, 2008 : 22 comments , 2,736 views

  • Viewpoint on GM and IT

    We've all been hearing about how the big 3 automakers are coming with "hat in hand" to Washington to get their hands on $25 billion to help them survive. There are many opinions out there about this and I'm not going to share everything...
    by Michael Keen on November 20, 2008 : 0 comments , 801 views

  • Virtual Desktops and N=1

    This will probably shock a lot of you, but this will probably be my shortest post ever. It's been the buzz for quite some time. We spent a great deal of time talking about it at the last BriForum, I hear about it from customers in almost every meeting...
    by Michael Keen on November 19, 2008 : 8 comments , 1,414 views

  • Geek Speak Road Trip #2 Registration Info

    hey all, well now that we have a few things solidified (nothing like cutting it short on time huh?), I wanted to share with you all here in the Midwest the registration link for the event. I hope that if you are around you will plan to make it to the...
    by Michael Keen on November 18, 2008 : 2 comments , 460 views

  • XenApp 5 Feature Profile: Special Folder Redirection

    Now that the early adopters have had their fun with XenApp 5, the path has been cleared for the wait-and-see crowd to get their hands a little dirty in the sandbox. Citrix has announced over 50 new features and enhancements, and we're going to take...
    by Gabe Knuth on November 17, 2008 : 10 comments , 2,200 views

  • Enterprise Architecture: another component to an agile and flexible enterprise

    In the last post I spoke about the importance of IT governance. Although IT governance is critical to the success of having a flexible and agile enterprise, having an overarching enterprise architecture to show how all the components of the enterprise...
    by Michael Keen on November 17, 2008 : 1 comments , 564 views

  • What does Microsoft Azure have to do with us? Hint: not much today.

    By now you're surely aware of the [relatively] huge announcements Microsoft made last month about their new Azure platform . Basically Microsoft is buying hundreds of thousands of Dell servers that they will run themselves. They also wrote their own...
    by Brian Madden on November 17, 2008 : 2 comments , 1,586 views

  • In the culture of innovation, leadership is key

    I've often blogged about innovation here as it related to using the technology we work in to innovate. Now I want to take a different tack and look at the culture of innovation in a broad scope and share some of my thoughts and experiences. In all...
    by Michael Keen on November 14, 2008 : 1 comments , 921 views

  • IT Governance; the foundation for an agile and flexible enterprise

    I did a post week or so ago on Simplification, Standardization, and Integration and the Citrix Delivery Center. Now I want to lay the foundation for how those design principles are put to work. The foundation for any agile and flexible enterprise is IT...
    by Michael Keen on November 14, 2008 : 0 comments , 590 views

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 will be 64-bit only. Think about what this means for terminal services!

    One of the announcements that come from PDC was that Windows Server 2008 R2 would be 64-bit only . At first I just thought, "It's about time!" and it really didn't sink in. But a few days ago it hit me like a ton of bricks. "Holy...
    by Brian Madden on November 13, 2008 : 18 comments , 4,394 views

  • Sun Rays get a firmware upgrade for better video performance. Wait... what?

    InternetWeek reported a few weeks ago that new firmware for Sun Ray clients is available , and that one of the key new features is multimedia redirection. This is funny because I thought the whole point of Sun Rays was they were so thin? Check out this...
    by Brian Madden on November 12, 2008 : 5 comments , 1,606 views

  • Want to know if your app runs on Citrix? Check the "Citrix Ready" website

    This is actually pretty cool. Citrix recently launched the new " Citrix Ready Community Verified " portion of the Citrix Community site. Unlike a lot of vendor "ready" programs that are just a shakedown for payments from ISVs to be...
    by Brian Madden on November 11, 2008 : 5 comments , 2,385 views

  • How to Deploy the XenApp Web Plugin (ICA Web Client) v11 via Web Interface 4.6 and Web Interface 5.0

    For those who would like a quick “Google-able” article on how to deploy the new XenApp Web Plugin (formerly known as the web client) this is the article for you. To do this, you basically follow the instructions from CTX114097, “Deploying...
    by Katie Koepke on November 10, 2008 : 1 comments , 1,987 views

  • VMware gets into the mobile phone virtualization business

    Apparently VMware bought some technology from a company called Trango Virtual Machines last month which they're launching today as the "VMware Mobile Virtual Platform" (VMware MVP). The point of this is not so a user can run multiple VMs...
    by Brian Madden on November 10, 2008 : 2 comments , 1,746 views

  • Geek Speak Road Trip #2 coming to Des Moines

    Yes, it's true. The hit event of last year's Synergy and the latest Partner Summit conference is coming back to Des Moines on December 4th, 2008. Last June we (Citrix and Alliance Technologies) brought Geek Speak out on the road for the first...
    by Michael Keen on November 09, 2008 : 8 comments , 775 views
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