Tag: XenDesktop
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, 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
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...
Best Practices, Business Practices, Citrix, Cloud Computing
It’s Been a Cloud-y Week
No, I’m not talking about the weather her in San Francisco – that’s actually been pretty good. It’s just that everywhere you look here at the Citrix Summit / Synergy conference, the talk is all about clouds - public clouds,...
Citrix, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
Thin Clients vs. Cheap PCs
We have, for a long time, been fans of thin client devices. However, if you run the numbers, it turns out that thin clients may not necessarily be the most cost-effective client devices for a VDI deployment. Just before writing...
Best Practices, Citrix, Virtualization
Top 10 VDI Mistakes (According to Dan Feller)
Dan Feller is a Lead Architect with the Citrix Consulting group, and has written extensively about XenDesktop. We found his series on the top ten mistakes people make when implementing desktop virtualization to be quite enlightening. In case you missed...
Citrix, Virtualization
Machine Creation Services and KMS
We’ve written extensively here about the challenges of using Citrix Provisioning Services to provision VMs that require key activation (i.e., Vista, Win7, and Server 2008/2008R2). We publicly rejoiced when the news broke that PVS v5.6, SP1, supported both KMS and...