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It’s time to DISRUPT the EUC World!
Shout out to our partner IGEL! Our team will be at Disrupt 2020 in Nashville in January. As technology shifts and changes, new innovators rise up to cast vision. IGEL provides a unique voice which shows new possibilities, inspires innovation, and creates the tools for...
App-V5 and Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.x
Citrix has been working really hard to make sure that App-V 5 is fully supported in XA/XD. This is greatly appreciated and a key integration for a wide range of users. However, it doesn't quite work like we would hope as there is a pretty big "Gotcha"- read on.... I...
Welcome to Citrix Workspace Environment Manager
By Steve Greenberg and Hal Lange Citrix recently acquired Norskale software and in the process added VUEM (Virtual User Environment Manager) and Transformer software to their portfolio. The new name for VUEM is Citrix Workspace Environment Manager (WEM) and it...
Citrix Session Recording is Great!!!
I love that Smart Auditor has come back….. er… I mean Session Recording. This is an amazing tool. The only issues I have with this product is if you want to not use SSL and retention and back to multiple consoles. I could complain about the multiple consoles, but...
Citrix messes with SQL Always On
XenDesktop 7.9 FMA has issues with SQL Always On.... Databases has been a source of controversy since Citrix released XenDesktop. With the merger of XenApp and XenDesktop the main solution for database availability is SQL Always On. With SQL Always On you have the...
Hyper-convergence, Zerto and Disaster Recovery- a Quiet Revolution is underway…
In technology we tend to notice the big headlines that change the I.T. world, but sometimes the biggest changes come along quietly. Think about the early days of Citrix or VMWare, both started as niche technologies that steadily grew over time to change, well,...
Why Citrix Workspace Cloud gets it right
Ok, I am a server hugger, there I said it. I like my servers local, connected by high bandwidth, right where I can see them. I keep multiple copies of my data on-site and use cloud based backup too. I love cloud technology- it's new, it's cool and I leverage it in...
The Dream of the Thin Client 90's is alive with NVIDIA GRID 2.0
Back in the day we called it Thin Client/Server Based Computing and the dream was ubiquitous access to desktops and app from anywhere, on any device. We worked really hard over the years and made great strides toward that goal. Every project since has...
Down the Rabbit Hole of IoT Part II, or, how an innocent hobby leads to creating an IoT Robo Laser Octoblu Smoke Breathing Kitty on Splunk !
If you are reading this, then you have read Part I and taken the BluOctoPill- welcome down into the Rabbit Hole of IOT! Go with the Flow The heart of this demo is the Octoblu framework, an amazing mesh network which is a powerful IoT Gateway between...
Down the Rabbit Hole of IoT Part I, or, how an innocent hobby leads to creating an IoT Robo Laser Octoblu Smoke Breathing Kitty on Splunk !
When I left off on the last blog, my son and I were working on our Laser Kitty. I am happy to report that the project was successful! We completed our laser kitty by experimenting and learning all we needed to program an Arduino, servo motors and a laser and then...