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Choose Your Own Adventure at EUC Unplugged!

Conversation with Doug Brown and Steve Greenberg

Shout out to our partner IGEL! Our team will be at Disrupt 2020 in Nashville in January. As technology shifts

Citrix has been working really hard to make sure that App-V 5 is fully supported in XA/XD. This is greatly appreciated and a key integration for a wide range of users.

Citrix recently acquired Norskale software and in the process added VUEM (Virtual User Environment Manager) and Transformer software to their portfolio. The new name for VUEM is Citrix Workspace Environment Manager (WEM) and it available as a free entitlement for existing XenApp/XenDesktop customers here.

I love that Smart Auditor has come back….. er… I mean Session Recording. This is an amazing tool. The only issues I have with this product is if you want to not use SSL and retention and back to multiple consoles.

XenDesktop 7.9 FMA has issues with SQL Always On.... Databases has been a source of controversy since Citrix...

In technology we tend to notice the big headlines that change the I.T. world, but sometimes the biggest changes come along quietly. Think about the early days of Citrix or VMWare, both started as niche technologies that steadily grew over time to change, well, everything.

Ok, I am a server hugger, there I said it. I like my servers local, connected by high bandwidth, right where I can see them.

Back in the day we called it Thin Client/Server Based Computing and the dream was ubiquitous access to desktops and app from anywhere, on any device. We worked really hard over the years and made great strides toward that goal.

When I left off on the last blog, my son and I were working on our Laser Kitty. I am happy to report that the project was successful!

If you are reading this, then you have read Part I and taken the BluOctoPill- welcome down into the Rabbit Hole of IOT!

As I wrote about in The Internet of Things, or, the Consumerization of Engineering, last month my son, I and Joe Shonk attended the IoTPhx meet up here in Tempe, Arizona hosted by the awesome Chris Matthieu of OctoBlu.

I had heard about it, but aside from thinking of everything around me having an IP address, and imaging doing silly things with my refrigerator, I didn’t really know what it meant. Recently we heard that Citrix had acquired OctoBlu, a leader in the IoT space and saw some impressive demos of human/device interaction at Citrix Summit 2015 in Vegas.

Over the last several years, many of us in the industry have discussed the need for community driven End User Computing podcasts focusing on virtualization topics for people designing, deploying, and using Citrix, Microsoft, VMware and surrounding technologies.

The speed of change is changing. It’s getting faster and faster and it sometimes feels that if you blink you can miss an important development in technology.

Just got back from Citrix Synergy 2014 happy, inspired and exhausted! It was a great week of learning, collaboration, conversations, and great times with friends and colleagues from around the world. It was an overload of ideas and input, but one things stands out above all else- The character and heart of Citrix President and CEO Mark Templeton.

One of the most exciting developments recently in the Virtualization World is the emergence of mature and highly performant remote 3D Graphics solutions. As expected, Citrix and NVIDIA are leading the charge here with full support for virtualized GPUs in the XenServer hypervisor.

I have had the pleasure of working with Microsoft App-V for a while now and HA has always been a very important item. Load Balancing has been a breeze in the App-V 4.x environments.

This was one of my favorite moments on the expo floor at Citrix Synergy 2013 this week in Anaheim. I took an important...

In our consulting group we spend a lot of time discussing, dissecting and analyzing each project we do. This leads to long debates around what ultimately are the best practices in everything from app virtualization, to VDI vs SBC, to storage, networking, hypervisor and ‘physical versus virtual’.

For 15 years now it has been a tradition at Thin Client Computing to give back to our customers and the community through special events. Our concept is to eliminate the talking heads, sales pitches and self serving agendas and simply share real experience about what works best in practise (and what does not work so well!).

For 15 years now it has been a tradition at Thin Client Computing to give back to our customers and the community through special events. Our concept is to eliminate the talking heads, sales pitches and self serving agendas and simply share real experience about what works best in practise (and what does not work so well!).

Today’s world of open information exchange is very different than just a few years ago where practical technical information was hard to come by. In those dark times, companies feared that acknowledging product issues, flaws or workarounds was a source of negative publicity and would hurt sales and affect stock prices.

You know when you are thinking of someone and then they call you? Well this is how I felt today when I received the announcement today that Citrix has aquired RingCube.

I.T. Professionals and Consultants who have worked for any period of time on hosting (or virtualizing) applications and desktops are acutely aware of the unstructured data that becomes part of a user’s environment.

Welcome to the new website of Thin Client Computing! Much of the site is still under construction. We have redesigned every aspect of the site to best reflect our current activities and the state of the virtualization market today.

This year’s Citrix Synergy was a very interesting and successful event. From my point of view, Citrix has found their stride in representing their unique value add to the market. They took the opportunity to show some early stage technologies, such as the Citrix Receiver for iPhone, Merchandising Server and Dazzle (see my and Joe Shonk’s thought on this here).

There it was….We pulled up to our house and saw a white plastic bag on the driveway, after a moment we realized it was a new set of phone books. My wife and I looked at each other, we hated to do it, but we picked it up and put it directly into the recycle bin. That is how much the world has changed- we wouldn’t even think of using a phone book, it sort of feels like trying to drive to the city in a Model T Ford.

I have been using Citrix products for a very long time. For years I have run my day to day applications as hosted desktops and/or published applications. As corporate types like to say “eating your own dog food”- never quite understood how that phrase came about, but that ‘s another topic for another blog.

Today was the keynote kickoff for Citrix Synergy in Las Vegas. First was the presentation by Garr Reynolds, a fascinating speaker who is versed in Zen philosophy and Japanese culture and the author/creator of Presentation Zen. Garr provided a great perspective on applying the Zen concepts of Beginners Mind, Openness and Nakedness to technology and business- I highly recommend you watch the link.

Citrix Systems Inc. began on April 17th, 1989. When they released their first product “Winview” I was one of the early adopters. I worked as an IT Pro in a progressive company that used NeXTSTEP on the desktop, Novell Netware as the network and key line of business applications in DOS.