By Shawn Bass on
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 10:27:01 AM
Wilco van Bragt has a nice article in a series of articles describing alternative products to Citrix Presentation Server. It's definitely worth reading.
MSTerminalServices.org - Alternatives to Citrix Presentation Server (Part 1)
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Thursday, June 21, 2007 8:05:29 AM
In a recent blog entry titled "A brief architecture overview of VMware ESX, XEN and MS Viridian", Massimo does a great job explaining the architectural differences between the competing virtualization products from VMWare, Microsoft, and the open source Xen. While it's clear that there's no true winner from an architectural perspective, my personal thoughts are that many people are going to adopt Viridian simply because it will be made available more easily and cost effectively. Time will tell though.
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Thursday, June 07, 2007 8:21:36 AM
So those Mac user's out there that have been using the Coherence feature of Parallels virtualization product, you need to checkout this video posted on VMWare's VMTN blog. It's pretty amazing!
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Wednesday, June 06, 2007 7:50:41 AM
Michael Burke has a nice article up on MSTerminalServices.org on high availability and recovery strategies for TS Licensing Servers. Hopefully most of you are aware that in the absense of a functional TS Licensing environment, your entire Citrix environment is useless. To that end, Michael has some great info on how you should design your TS License servers for high availability.
Read the full MSTerminalServices.org article.
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 1:44:14 PM
Tim and Kevin (both regulars on SoftGridGuru.com) have announced that they have built training courseware on SoftGrid and will be conducting independent training classes on the courseware. While this is unofficial training, I'm extremely excited to see this type of thing available for the SoftGrid platform. I think it's going to be a great opportunity once SoftGrid starts to gain more traction in the industry. Besides, I'm already biased on supporting independent training.
Read the forum posting on SoftGridGuru. Add read more about the training on the GridMasterTraining.com.
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 12:49:21 PM
In a forum post on SoftGridGuru, smileyej posted links to download locations for SoftGrid 4.1 SP1. The strange thing is that the download links are public?!?! Mistake? Get 'em while they're hot!
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 7:10:41 AM
Citrix has posted information that their acquisition of ThinGenius's load testing product has been productized as Citrix EdgeSight for Load Testing and will be available beginning June 24th, 2007. This announcement came with the official launch of EdgeSight 4.5. Pricing for the load testing product is $7500US for 100 virtual users (approximately 1k more than previous pricing under ThinGenius). Frankly I'm surprised this was launched as quickly as it was. It seems Citrix is really getting this M&A thing down pat now.
Read the official press release for full details.
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Monday, June 04, 2007 3:49:39 PM
Microsoft has posted additional details on the SoftGrid Team Blog about the outstanding survey for participation in the SoftGrid 4.5 Technology Adoption Program (TAP). Here are some of the interesting plans for SoftGrid 4.5 (bold emphasis is mine):
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By Shawn Bass on
Monday, June 04, 2007 8:51:49 AM
While it can't be used in a production environment, Microsoft has posted a Tech Preview release of SoftGrid 4.2. SoftGrid 4.2 brings support for Windows Vista and Side-by-Side (SxS) support for things like Office 2007 and Visual Studio Express. The release of 4.2 is slated for July 2007. Read the full details at the SoftGrid Team blog entry.
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Saturday, June 02, 2007 10:07:35 AM
From this forum thread on the official Citrix Support site, I found a link to a published KB article about the effects of WAN optimization technology on Citrix ICA traffic. View the whitepaper from Citrix Consulting at the following link:
CTX113505 -
FAQ - Truths and Myths of Presentation Server and WAN Optimization
Shawn
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