Technology

A few months back, I wrote a blog on how to configure the Raspberry Pi thin client to access Citrix workloads. If you are completely new to the HDX Pi and want to learn more about the benefits, this is a good place to start. Since then Citrix announced the HDX Pi and I have…

AppDisk, an application layering solution was part of XenApp/XenDesktop 7.8 released in late February this year. This post is not meant to cover the basics of application layering or image management as a whole. You can refer to my blog for a quick overview. My goal in this post is to cover the administrative aspects of…

General Announcement and News XenApp 7.8 & XenDesktop 7.8 Available for Download Customers with active Software Maintenance (SWM) or Subscription Advantage (SA)–effective February 17, 2016–can download XenApp 7.8 and XenDesktop 7.8 on Citrix.com. The XenApp and XenDesktop 7.8 release greatly simplifies application management, delivering a 90% time savings over traditional methods. It enhances the user…

In this blog, I try to showcase how Raspberry Pi 2 running ThinLinx and Raspbian Jessie can be effectively used to deliver Citrix apps and desktops in a cost efficient manner.

General Announcements and News Citrix Appoints Kirill Tatarinov as President and CEO Citrix announced that Kirill Tatarinov has been appointed President and CEO, effective January 25, 2016. A veteran Microsoft executive, Mr. Tatarinov will also join the Citrix Board as a director at that time. Citrix Acquires Comtrade’s SCOM Management Packs IP The acquisition of…

General Announcements Citrix Unveils Free Cloud-based Service to Migrate VMware Horizon View Customers to Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop For VMware customers under pressure to improve their app and desktop  experience, gain greater infrastructure flexibility and simplify end user computing management, Citrix is introducing a free cloud-based service to migrate VMware Horizon View virtual app and…

Citrix released Citrix Workspace Cloud (CWC) earlier this week. Most people I talk to agree that CWC is one of the most innovative solutions in the industry right now. You can read more about my thoughts on CWC here. In this post, I want to focus on one of the components of CWC namely Citrix…

NS Insight Center 11 was released earlier this month, and with this release Geo Maps is now available for HDX Insight. It was earlier available for Web Insight only. For those of you not familiar with HDX Insight, it is a tool from Citrix that provides end to end visibility from an end user experience perspective…

The IT landscape has changed a lot the past 5 years. Security is the top concern of most enterprises that I deal with, some being constantly attacked/hacked on a daily basis. IP theft is a major concern with executives and top engineers travelling around the world with highly sensitive data. Up until recently, the options…