The next couple of weeks should see a major new version of AppSense’s flagship product, DesktopNow, become available for download.
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Docker: What Is It? Hint: It’s Not a Harbour Worker
There is a lot of buzz about a “new” technology called Docker. I say “new” in quotes, because most of us greybeards should remember a technology called “containers,” circa 2004, and the arguments about which was better: virtualization or containers. Well, it seems that the wheel has turned full circle, and we are back in …
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Microsoft StorSimple Hybrid SAN Links Data Center Back to Azure
Two years after its acquisition of cloud storage gateway vendor StorSimple, Microsoft is introducing new physical and virtual appliances into a hybrid cloud storage service that will blur the lines between on-premises SAN and Azure cloud storage for its customers.
Part 2: Citrix Monitoring — EdgeSight/Director vs. Third-Party Tools
Part 1 of yesterday’s “Citrix Monitoring Tools” article described inherent Citrix monitoring functionality and presented an overview of Citrix EdgeSight/Director. Part 2 will cover specific features of EdgeSight/Director, based on a comparison with key third-party monitoring solutions. However, before we delve into that core subject matter, applications should be discussed.
Part 1: Citrix Monitoring Tools — Past and Present
Monitoring and managing a Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop environment can depend on the embedded Citrix components or, if they are deemed insufficient, third-party tools. From a realistic standpoint, (aka, non-marketing), this article will review the inherent Citrix tools, and Part 2 will focus on third-party tools.
XenApp is Back, and Citrix With It
In a Wednesday blog post Berger admitted in public what many inside and outside Citrix have known for years; “we over rotated and SBC* became a second class citizen to VDI.”