Chromebook / Chromebox for XenApp 6.5

Citrix recently announced that the newly released Receiver for Chrome 1.5 now supports Web Interface 5.4. While that may not seem significant at first, let’s revisit what has changed with Chromebook, as well as with Chromebox, in the interim and take a look at the impact on business adoption. This new combination changes the cost and …

Six Features You Absolutely Need on Your Storage in 2015

It’s 2015, but you would think it was 1995 based on what we’re still using in our data centers for enterprise storage. We still have gobs and gobs of spinning disks, sucking power and boring us to death while they find our data. Convergence is largely unconverged—we still have separate Fibre Channel and IP data …

In the New Year, Can CISOs Move On?

On the December 18 Virtualization Security Podcast, we were joined by Rafal Los (@Wh1t3Rabbit) to discuss whether it is time for CISOs to move on. Should CISOs start to look beyond simply the problems at hand? Should they drive security into all decisions made at the business and architecture levels? The discussion was mixed, to …

Hotel Goes Medieval on Personal Data Access

How many of you “road warriors” out there have to pay for hotel Wi-Fi?  How many of you take your own personal MiFi out on the road with you because of the exorbitant charges that the mainstream hotel chains charge? (For example, $22 per night for the Hilton in Lyon, or $10.95 a day for …