2024 has been an exceptionally challenging year for our family. My father has battled Parkinson’s disease for over two decades, and this year, complications arose that affected his well-being. I cherish the ten days I spent with him in the hospital, reflecting on my upbringing. As a father to two young girls, I’ve gained profound…
A Tribute To My Dear Grandfather, Dr. Samuel Krishnamurthy
Leadership and Teams: What We Can Learn From India’s Historic Test Series Victory in Australia
Cricket is a religion in India that over a billion people follow, and I am no exception. Yesterday, cricket fans around the world witnessed something truly historic, with India defeating the hosts, Australia in a 4 game test series. This is just the second time India has ever won a test series in Australia and…
2020: A Year Of Change
reMarkable 2 – As Close As It Gets To Writing On Paper!
I’ve always been one who likes to write things down in order to grasp what is being shared. I’m always scribbling, whether it be meetings, reading a book, watching a webinar etc. However, I’ve always had two issues related to note taking. First, its always hard to find information when I most need it. Second,…
Social Media, Personal Brand And Career Success
I was recently interviewed by my peer Sara Baker on a podcast as part of “Career Month” at Citrix. The topic of the conversation was Personal brand and how it can lead to career success. We covered a lot of topics including what defines your brand, building a brand, importance of social selling, the do’s…
Synergy 2019 Breakout Sessions That You Don’t Wanna Miss!
Every year, I try to compile a list of sessions that I highly recommend. This year, I’m a bit late, but better late than never. So here goes: SYN101: Citrix Virtual Assistant and Productivity Analytics (Kedarnath Poduri, Omar ElNaggar) SYN145: Privacy, security, data and trust: a look at the future of data risk management (Steve…
Citrix acquires Unidesk: Here’s why customers should care!
Application layering has been a hot topic in the End User Computing space, specially the last 24 months or so. Layering allows you to decouple applications or groups of applications form the underlying operating system thereby enabling you to manage them indepedently. There are quite a few players in this space including AppVolumes by VMware…
How to enable Local Host Cache in XenApp/XenDesktop 7.12
Local Host Cache (LHC), which was a key feature of the IMA architecture in XenApp 6.5 and earlier was reintroduced for the first time in the FMA based XenApp/XenDesktop 7.12 release. You can learn more about LHC in detail in my previous blog on the topic. Prior to 7.12, users were able to access resources…
XenApp/XenDesktop 7.12 Local Host Cache Explained
With the release of XenApp and XenDesktop 7.12 Citrix brought back one of the most requested features from the XenApp 6.x days – The Local Host Cache (LHC). For those of you new to this term, it essentially provided a way for users to connect to their XA/XD published resources while the SQL based database…