I was just with a client and needed a tool to launch a direct ICA connection to a server.  I knew such a Citrix tool existed, but for the life of me I couldn’t remember the name of it.  My Google skills also somewhat deserted me at the time and it was only later that [...]

So I’ve had a chance to play with the new Citrix XenClient Express RC for a couple of days now, I was lucky enough to have a laptop on the HCL (a Lenovo T400) with enough RAM to cope with multiple VM’s. When testing I’ve tried to keep in mind that this is a a 1.0 release candidate and not as yet ready for production. Ian Pratt has famously said that if he knew how hard this was going to be he wouldn’t have done it, so was all that effort worth it?

This list is taken from the CTX125133 article Citrix XenClient 1.0 RC User Guide. Although as yet the HCL list is currently very small, I bet Citrix will be relying on third party vendors to OEM XenClient and add their own drivers.

As I’m pulling together my session for BriForum I need to choose which Cloud provider to use for the demo.  I’ve come up with a list of seven pre-requisites I need and thought I’d share them with you.  I’ve refined this list as I’ve experimented with various providers to try and judge their suitability.  This [...]

BriForum this year will be running from June 15th to 17th in Chicago, this is a conference that I have wanted to go to for a long time, but never before had the chance.  This year not only will I be going for the first time, but will be speaking alongside my colleague Rick [...]

To set out why I think this topic is important. I think that user installation of applications is the key differentiator for VDI over terminal services, as I said in a previous post Why is VDI changing into Terminal Server? the difference between Terminal Services and VDI is actually very small without it.

With the release recently of the Amazon workflow studio library for Citrix’s Workflow Studio product, one of the major pieces fell in to place to enable us to cloudburst XenApp into the EC2 cloud. Now it’s here I want to have a look at whether we now have all the tools we need to start putting this into practice.

With the announcement of the inclusion of the PC over IP (PCoIP) Teradici in VMware View this week at VMworld. I think that there is something people may be missing.

Generally the ICA client doesn’t get much attention, undeservedly so in my opinion. So I decided to make this guide as a quick reference sheet for all you need to know about the Windows client for Citrix XenApp.

If remote protocols are almost exclusively used in regard to business applications, why are games important? The reason is that if I try and think of what would be the hardest thing to do over a remote protocol, it would be to play games with the same quality as you would see them on your desktop.