Just a week ago, I wrote about the introduction of XenDesktop Essentials - which allows you to run virtual Windows 10 desktops in the Azure cloud if you meet certain criteria. Today, I noticed that the other shoe has dropped,...
Category: Citrix
Citrix, Licensing
What’s Happening to Citrix Subscription Advantage?
Once upon a time, there was a scrappy little software company called Citrix, which had a fairly small, but fiercely loyal and extremely technically competent reseller channel. Because Citrix was focused on growing their software sales and improving their product,...
Citrix, Virtualization
Citrix Releases XenApp and XenDesktop v7.11
On September 8, Citrix released XenApp and XenDesktop v7.11. One of the big milestones in this release is compatibility with Windows Server 2016. At the recent Citrix Synergy 2016 conference, Citrix committed to be compatible with Windows Server 2016 on...
Citrix, Security, Virtualization
Citrix Secure Browser Service Delivers Web Apps Quickly and Simply
According to Gartner, over fifty percent of corporate applications are now delivered via the browser. Unfortunately, many Web applications, especially legacy applications, require a specific version of Internet Explorer, and/or require Flash or Java functionality that may or may not...
Citrix, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
Licensing Office in a Remote Desktop Environment
Update – January 19, 2015 After posting the last update a week ago, I spent more time rooting around the Microsoft Web site, and ended up in a relatively painful 45-minute chat session with a Microsoft “Licensing Specialist.” A large...
Citrix, Cloud Computing, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
Cloud-Based VDI vs. DaaS – Is There a Difference?
With nearly all new technologies in the IT space comes confusion over terminology. Some of the confusion is simply because the technology is new, and we’re all trying to understand how it works and how – or whether – it...
Citrix, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
The Elusive Windows Companion Subscription License – a Solution In Search of a Problem?
In our post entitled “What Licenses Do I Need,” we discussed the licensing required, from both Citrix and Microsoft, for a XenApp or XenDesktop deployment. But there was still an unknown factor: When that post was published, Microsoft had recently...
Best Practices, Citrix, Cloud Computing, Virtualization
Data Gravity and Cloud Computing
Last July, Alistair Croll wrote an interesting post over at http://datagravity.org on the concept of “data gravity” – a term first coined by Dave McCrory. The concept goes like this: The speed with which information can get from where it...
Citrix, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
What Licenses Do I Need?
Earlier this week, I had a long discussion with a client (you know who you are) about what licenses they would need for a deployment of “zero client” devices. We’ve written a lot about Microsoft and Citrix licensing, about XenDesktop...