Login

Please login to Techworld.com

Forgot password?
Need your new account confirmation email resent?
Forgot email?

Not a member yet?

Register for a Techworld Account and enjoy unlimited access to our extensive white paper library and exclusive Enterprise multi-user software trials. Account members can also comment on articles and access best practices guides.

CITRIX

Topic Zone

Latest News

Alcatel-Lucent brings 40G Ethernet to core switches

Alcatel-Lucent this week at Interop will flesh out its data center fabric vision with 40G Ethernet and higher-density 10G Ethernet capabilities on its core switches, as well as enhanced software for its top-of-rack and core switches.
Canonical releases Ubuntu Linux 12.04 'Precise Pangolin'

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ?Precise Pangolin? has been released by Canonical after months of widespread anticipation abou the popular Linux distribution.
Open source cloud solutions criticised by VMware

VMware has been stung into a response after weeks of attack on its cloud offerings from open source rivals.
Citrix buys cloud-based software platform maker Podio

Citrix has acquired Podio, a maker of a cloud-based software platform for project management and collaboration.
Enterprise social network Yammer picks up Office tool maker OneDrum

Enterprise social networking vendor Yammer announced this week that it has purchased OneDrum, maker of software that allows users to work on Microsoft Office documents and other files collaboratively. Terms were not disclosed.
Terremark offers private cloud that offloads traffic spikes to public platforms

Terremark is offering enterprises a new private cloud storage service that includes the option to burst into a public cloud to handle big spikes in traffic.
Citrix abandons OpenStack in favour of CloudStack

Citrix has abandoned its Olympus OpenStack distribution and will focus instead on its open source CloudStack operating system, which it has contributed as a project under the Apache Software Foundation.
Dell to buy thin-client company Wyse Technology

Dell has signed an agreement to acquire thin-client hardware and software company Wyse Technology, to expand its desktop virtualisation offerings.
Dell Desktop as a Service product offers virtual clients in the cloud

Dell said this week it is expanding its virtual desktop offerings into the cloud through a partnership with another company.
Atlantis combats storage bottlenecks with ILIO for Citrix XenApp

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) specialist Atlantis Computing is moving into virtual server optimisation with the launch of its ILIO optimisation product for Citrix XenApp.

Latest Features

Six simple steps to adopting consumerisation

Most businesses are accepting, even embracing, consumer technology. What do they know that you don't?
Citrix says desktop virtualisation is the key to enterprise security

One of the main reasons for deploying desktop virtualisation is the security advantages it can provide, such as keeping sensitive data off the endpoint, according to Citrix.
Citrix targets virtualisation, orchestration layers instead of "cloud washing"

With scores of new cloud companies popping up and so many existing players jumping on the cloud bandwagon, we wondered where the traditional enterprise networking vendors stood?
Juniper sticks to strengths with cloud strategy

Juniper has a three-pronged cloud strategy that includes selling networking gear in the data centres of most major IaaS players, providing secure connections between virtual data centres and cloud customers, and orchestrating how virtualised resources get allocated to cloud application services.
Cisco catching up with the cloud

The only place Cisco plays directly in the cloud is in the SaaS arena with its WebEx collaboration, video and telepresence services, which account for about $1 billion of Cisco's $40 billion in annual revenue.
Ten top strategies for starting a server virtualisation project

The benefits of server virtualisation are so significant at this point that implementing it is a no-brainer.
Managing mobile devices: 10 lessons learned, via Forrester

Modern CIOs and their IT department face a new, complex set of mobile device security and manageability challenges as employees bring in their various smartphones and tablets to the workplace, and as additional devices are rolled out across the enterprise.
Top 10 best new features of Windows Server 8

Microsoft claims 300 new and improved features in Windows Server 8, but after a few days in Redmond watching demos and stepping through lab sessions, we wonder whether the marketing guys accidentally left off a zero.
Four reasons why Windows Phone will beat Android and iPhone

Microsoft has a relatively long history with mobile operating systems, stretching back to the mid-nineties and Windows CE. Developed originally for "embedded systems," Windows CE quickly found its way into PDAs and eventually phones, and while consumers never warmed to the platform, it did achieve a level of success in the enterprise.
Desktop virtualisation: How to succeed

If you've already virtualised the servers in your data centre, desktop virtualisation may seem like the next logical step. But businesses are finding that the benefits of hosted virtual desktop technologies are more nuanced. The advantages may be harder to quantify and harder to justify based purely on traditional ROI calculations.

How-tos

How to migrate applications to Windows 7 successfully

How to cut power bills by getting rid of PCs

How to understand Microsoft Office licences on Citrix virtual machines

How to set up a virtual server

How to manage multivendor virtualisation

How to access server-hosted Windows applications anywhere

How to set up virtualisation for small businesses

Case Study: Australia's medal-winning WAN

Slideshows

Also in slideshows:

The hottest virtualisation products at VMworld

Six cool features in vSphere 4.1

Fighting the dark side: Tech's heroes and villains

Featured White Papers

A mission-critical virtual desktop environment

Virtual desktop environments increase security and simplify management because the infrastructure is in a firewall protected, centralized datacenter that is easily managed by local resources.
Download whitepaper

Taking your web application performance, scalability and reliability to the next level

This white paper examines how app delivery controller (ADC), Cirtix netscaler, boosts web application performance and scalability by optimizing delivery over networks, offloading compute-intensive processes and making it easy and inexpensive to scale out related infrastructure.
Download whitepaper

The business case for home working

This new UK brief looks at quantifying the financial and environmental benefits of this growing trend. It shows how twice weekly home working, by those with compatible jobs and a desire to do so, could save UK companies, employees and the community over £4,300 per year per participant. The the national level, the savings would total over £32 billion a year
Download whitepaper

Citrix® GoToAssist® 8.0

This guide is for Citrix® GoToAssist® customers and other stakeholders that need to understand how GoToAssist impacts information security risk and compliance in their environment.
Download whitepaper

The Forrester Wave?: SSL VPN Appliances, Q4 2006

Forrester evaluated leading SSL VPN appliance vendors across 57 criteria and found that Juniper Networks maintains its SSL VPN leadership thanks to its superior reverse proxy technology and focus on secure mobility. Aventail trails close behind with its fully integrated endpoint security and similar strength in mobile device access. Citrix Systems and Microsoft also provide leading technology that focuses on access and acceleration for corporate apps.
Download whitepaper

Recommended in Virtualisation

Recommended News

Mozilla ships Firefox 8, patches 8 bugs and adds Twitter search

BlackBerry services struggling again but there is no outage, says RIM

RackConnect updates with security, automation features

Hackers poison Brazilian ISP DNS to infect users with banking Trojan

Question of the day!

Are your management tools adequate for a hybrid cloud?

Follow the conversation at @Know_Cloud

Question of the day!

Are your management tools adequate for a hybrid cloud?

% of Techworld readers agree with you

Yes

TBC

What are the key management tools you need to take advantage of the hybrid cloud?

Follow the conversation at @Know_Cloud

Featured Reviews

Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition review

Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors, and the best that AMD had to offer, with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today, Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, an £800 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon. read more...

VMWare Fusion 4 review

Fusion 4 is the newest version of VMware's virtualisation solution for the Mac, which allows you to run multiple operating systems within Mac OS X. Since we reviewed Fusion 3, VMWare has added support for Lion and the ability to create OS X Lion virtual machines, reduced the consumption of system resources to zero when you aren't running a virtual machine, redesigned the settings window, and much more. read more...

Dell PowerEdge R715 review

New 16-core AMD Opteron 6200-series CPUs in the Dell R715 bring huge bang for the buck to wide virtualization workloads, but not until your OS supports it read more...

NetworkClean review

Facebook is a lot of fun...until you realize that much of the information posted there could be found by someone you might not want to see it. Like your boss, or potential boss. Your mother, or your potential mother-in-law. Ever wonder how your Facebook page might make you look to someone else? NetworkClean can show you: This free service scans and monitors your Facebook account, alerting you to any problems lurking there. read more...

HP Folio 13 review

The HP Folio 13 is a sleek 13.3-inch Ultrabook that comes in a slim profile measuring just 18mm thick. HP positions it as a business-grade laptop that eschews an optical drive for portability and crams in a battery that the company says is good for up to 9.5 hours. The HP Folio 13 also includes a number of business-centric capabilities ignored by other computer makers. read more...