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Last week the enterprise focused file-sharing company ShareFile was acquired by Citrix. The press release bills the acquisition as an acceleration of Citrix’s Cloud Data Strategy and I, for one, welcome our new Cloud Data overlords. All joking aside, I’m looking forward to Synergy Barcelona even more now that all of the Dropbox/Box.net rumors have [...]
After upgrading my wife’s 2010 13″ MacBook Pro to OS X Lion I got bit by a nasty bug that affects the volume control buttons on the keyboard. Whenever she tried to adjust the volume the on-screen display would come up as usual, but instead of increasing/decreasing/muting the volume it would display a little
While preparing for a customer briefing on XenDesktop 5.5 and XenApp 6.5 this morning I decided to search for recent blog posts to review. Turns out there were tons of individual postings, from release announcements to deep-dives on specific new features. I also found a bunch of Citrix partners blogging about this major release — [...]
If you’re having problems launching the NetScaler Configuration Utility, here are a few troubleshooting steps which should come in handy. I was recently working with a customer that had a pair of boxes in one datacenter that worked just fine and a pair of boxes in another datacenter that failed [...]
With the much anticipated release of XenServer 6.0 on Monday, I got the urge to take a stroll down memory lane. For those that don’t know, I joined Citrix back in February 2008 and my sole responsibility was spreading the word about XenServer: educating partners, customers and those within Citrix [...]
Simple Question:
Is desktop virtualization a key stepping stone for cloud computing in the enterprise?
Sure, as someone that spends most of their day (and quite a few evenings) working on desktop virtualization and cloud computing projects — okay, mostly desktop virtuailzation, but cloud discussions are increasingly common and I enjoy the blog/twitter [...]
Trying to find a quick and painless way to add an ISO storage repository to your XenServer without using CIFS or NFS? I was searching for just that after attaching an external USB drive with all my ISOs to my XenServer (running version 5.6 FP1, aka “Cowley”, in my case). Since there’s no direct method [...]
A couple weekends ago I spent some time getting Vyatta Core 6.1, vyatta-xenserver_VC6.1-2010.10.16_i386 to be precise, deployed in my lab. I found a few tutorials for configuring Vyatta with VMware products, but didn’t really see anything for XenServer. Citrix highlighted the possibilities fairly soon after the XenSource acquisition in a blog post, but that was [...]
First, I’d like to say thanks to everyone that checked out Better XenCenter. The response to my first release has been extremely positive and for that I’m thankful. As a way to show my appreciation, I’ve get a new version of the plugin for everyone. New features include:
Revamped the tab pages. Instead of assuming [...]
UPDATE (01/23/2011): The Better XenCenter plugin has been renamed XenCenter Consoles+. The old landing page will redirect you to the new one automatically. See my announcement for details on the name change.
A lot of people may not be aware of this, but XenCenter, the management console for Citrix XenServer, [...]
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