ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Don't expect Citrix to follow VMware in pushing for industry-wide MAM standards.
Citrix CEO Mark Templeton discussed the issue of mobile application management (MAM) standards during a Q&A session with media and analysts today at Synergy 2013. Citrix's focus is on providing the best overall user experience, and MAM is just a part of that, he said.
"If standards evolve ... we'll follow those standards," Templeton said. "We're not a fighter...
Today's opening keynote for Citrix Synergy 2013 LA is over. Here's the live blog I typed during it. It's in reverse order, so read from the bottom-up. Key takeaways are XenDesktop 7, XenMobile, and the Worx stuff. Tune into the live streamed podcast with analysis from Gabe Knuth, Jack Madden, Shawn Bass, and Jeroen van de Kamp at 1:00pm PST. ~~~~ 12:03 Mark just finished up with a video about the future or something. 11:52 Moving on to NetScaler. I'm not going to write much about this unless...
Are you missing Synergy this year? Is there just too much information coming out of twitter to make sense of what's happening? We're here to help! Join Jack Madden and myself (with Brian chiming in somehow, despite the fact that he's playing hooky this year) as we break down the announcements made during the Citrix Synergy 2013 keynote with the help of Shawn Bass and Jeroen van de Kamp. There's going to be a lot to talk about, like ***** and ******, and we'll explain just what the hell is going...
Last year at BlackBerry's annual user conference there was a strange unease blanketing the entire affair. The company was transitioning to a new CEO, it was struggling to get the new BlackBerry 10 platform out the door, and it's big answer to its problems curiously seemed to be a fancy mobile cellphone camera, a luxury car that can run QNX, and hiring Alicia Keys to do whatever it is that Alicia Keys does (I still DON'T KNOW why the two have joined forces).
Fast forward a year later and the...
At BriForum London this year, I walked around with a video camera recording booth demos with each of our sponsors. Those videos can be accessed below by clicking on the sponsor logo or by browsing through all of our videos at www.brianmadden.com/videos.
One of the most fun parts of Citrix Synergy is Geek Speak Tonight! Geek Speak Tonight! features experts (both community members and folks from Citrix) debating the technology issues facing our community today. It's pretty informal and off-the-cuff, and there are always some good laughs, too.
This year's session takes place at 4pm to 6pm on Tuesday, May 22, at Citrix Synergy in Anaheim, California. The first hour of the session, moderated by Dan Feller (Twitter @djfeller) from Citrix, will...
As you're hopefully aware, BriForum 2013 London is taking place this week. I kicked off the conference yesterday morning with a 20-minute "State of the Industry" keynote presentation. Check out it:
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Basically I explained our evolving view of desktop virtualization, covering the two big changes of the past year that enable VDI to be used in many more scenarios than the past. (This is also covered in the evolution from last year's VDI Delusion book to...
Big news from BriForum 2013 London, which kicks off today! It’s been a little over a year since Gabe, Jack, and I published the first edition of our book, The VDI Delusion . While we're incredibly proud of that book, in hindsight we're not sure if we picked the best title. Calling it The VDI Delusion scared many people away as they thought it was a book about VDI haters and that we were anti-VDI. (And with a title like that, who could blame them?) Of course VDI had been talked up by so...
Today VMware announced that Horizon Mobile for Android, their dual-persona mobile virtualization product, is finally available on two phones from Verizon (the LG Intuition and the Motorola RAZR M). We’ve been waiting for this release for a long time, so today’s announcement feels important. However, there still some interesting surprises that could change the way we think about Horizon Mobile.
Horizon Mobile for Android consists of a guest virtual machine that separates corporate...
Blog posting on BrianMadden.com might be a bit light this week as we scramble to put the final touches on our BriForum 2013 London conference which takes place this Thursday and Friday in London. (If you haven't registered yet and like to attend, you still can .) But much like yesterday's post , I've got a bunch of little ideas that I'm interested in getting out there, so I figured this week is a good week for them. What I'm interested in today is that idea that thanks to the recent...
It's been awhile since we've talked about User Installed Apps (UIA) on the site. But with the news (rumor?) that AppSense is stopping development on their StrataApps UIA project , I'm starting to wonder if UIA even matters anymore? No, actually we've been wondering this a lot. I think I'm ready to say that UIA doesn't matter anymore. (By UIA, I'm talking about some kind of dynamic run-time app packaging environment that could automatically encapsulate Windows apps that users install when...
