Citrix XenApp is a technology that delivers applications to users.
Previous versions were an extension of Microsoft’s Terminal Services, allowing for specific applications installed on a Terminal Server to be available to the users, without giving the users access directly to the desktop. This simplified securing the Terminal Server [...]
I was recently at a Citrix Partner seminar, they covered a slew of their products.
I’ve worked with Presentation Server/XenApp for a while, but I’ve never been had the chance to play with anything else. It looked very interesting and I want to play with XenServer and NetScaler.
I will [...]
Some programs don’t play well with others, some programs are very finicky. Some programs are too much work to install on every desktop and create massive management headaches trying to keep them up to date. For programs like this there is a solution: Application Vitualization.
Application virtualization’s objective is to decouple the application from [...]
Microsoft’s purchase of SoftGrid has enabled them to release an application virtualization product, called App-V.
What is application virtualization? That is a question for another time.
How does MS do application virtualization? At it’s simplest (and it can get quite complicated) it is a sandbox for an application to run in. The sandbox [...]