The App Factory

Citrix Application Packaging and Deployment Guide

leew — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:45:39 +0000

The GIDWIM document was designed by Alexander Ervik Johnsen (www.ervik.as) to be a guideline for Citrix application packaging and distribution. A list of Best Practices for technologies such as Citrix XenApp and Citrix Desktop. In this guide Alexander has gone in to great detail on how to use the following to automate and ease the pain of manually installing Citrix applications.

The GiDWiM Guide 5.0 includes the following new features:

· Application Streaming

o In depth look at Citrix Application Streaming

o How-tos

· XenApp 5.0 features etc…

· New Installation Manager that ships with XenApp 5 for Windows 2008 Server.

· More tips and tricks

· Added several applications to the “how-to” list

Download the article at source here : http://www.dabcc.com/downloadfile.aspx?id=250

Application Virtualization Galore

leew — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:28:30 +0000

For many environments, jumping into application virtualization is an ‘as-needed’ endeavor. There are a few big players in the space, including VMware ThinApp, Citrix XenApp, Microsoft App-V, Symantec EndPoint. If you didn’t see February/March issue, Ken Da Silva did a great review of ThinApp and its smooth interface. In my opinion, application virtualization is the boutique segment of the larger virtualization market and can be tough for many organizations to find a use case.The exception is XenApp, since Citrix has been in the application and presentation virtualization space for quite a long time. Further, many organizations have already invested heavily in Citrix installations. These have also made natural transitions to server virtualization, with Web front end servers and presentation servers being converted to VMs. It is also darn cool to virtualize a server that is already a virtualization solution - a “double-dip,” if you will. Read the full article at source here http://virtualizationreview.com/blogs/weblog.aspx?blog=3861

Citrix Unveils Dazzle and Other Desktop Virtualization Advances at Synergy Show

leew — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:19:57 +0000

The string of new desktop-related products Citrix Systems is announcing at its user show in Las Vegas this week may elate some customers. But its rhetoric about continuing to compete with VMware in server virtualization and cloud computing could confuse others, and even overshadow the real, mostly free client software that should be the focus of attention, analysts say.

Citrix, the leading player in desktop and application virtualization, will announce three major new applications this week at its Synergy conference.

The first is Dazzle, an iTunes-like front end for the desktop client of Citrix’ XenApp application virtualization server.

Dazzle is designed to be as attractive and easy to use as iTunes or any other Web-based consumer application, according to Wes Wasson, chief marketing officer of Citrix Systems, who briefed the press and analysts by phone Monday. Read the full article at source here : http://www.cio.com/article/491752/Citrix_Unveils_Dazzle_and_Other_Desktop_Virtualization_Advances_at_Synergy_Show

The benefits of Application Streaming in a Citrix environment

leew — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:14:39 +0000

These days all we hear about is virtualization and application streaming. Now, thanks to Microsoft’s intention to acquire Softricity, (if you do not know them, do not worry; just keep reading) the whole streaming thing is now even hotter than before. In this article I will try to give all the newbies in this somewhat new technology what it is all about and how it can help you a LOT in a TS/Citrix world. Read the full article at source here http://www.msterminalservices.org/articles/benefits-Application-Streaming-TS-Citrix-environment.html

The benefits of Application Streaming in a Citrix environment

leew — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:13:11 +0000

Extending Software as a Service To any device including the iPhone

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:12:36 +0000

It’s here - The Citrix Service Provider program AND Receiver for iPhone 1.0. This is the most exciting announcement since I’ve been here at Citrix. Can you imagine the power of the most successful application delivery technology on the planet coupled with the highest growth mobile device on the planet? We’ve been working on both at Citrix for a while and now they are both available together.Today Citrix announced the creation of a new licensing approach for service providers. The Citrix Service Provider program that enables hosting services companies to access our technology in a subscription licensing arrangement to rapidly expand the delivery of applications for Windows based Software as a Service. Read the rest here http://community.citrix.com/blogs/group/xenapp

SaaS and the Cloud - How to deliver applications, Phase I

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:09:17 +0000

I was on a webinar with Goldman Sachs last week and their most technically astute analysts were talking about the future of virtualization in relation to Public and Private Clouds as well as the ability to deliver next generation applications using Web 2.0 technology. I posed the question to them, “What about the tens of thousands of applications that have been written in Windows that either can’t or won’t make the transition to ‘webification’” (a cool term I dreamed up at the spur of the moment!). The answer was predictable but unfortunately had been left out of the entire discussion until I brought it up. The analyst responded, “Whoever figures out how to get those [Windows] apps into a SaaS model has a huge opportunity in the market today.” Read th rest at source here http://community.citrix.com/blogs/group/xenapp

Citrix Receiver for iPhone Community Site is Live!

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:57:46 +0000

The site is now live and you can access it by clicking on the following link:http://community.citrix.com/iphone

How to Make a VMware ThinApp Application Package

admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:54:32 +0000

Here are the prerequisite instructions on how to make a ThinApp application. They will cover the basics for creating the package and are “as is” and contain nothing in relation to capturing any specific package. This is so you have an overview of what basic items and steps are needed in order to properly create and build ThinApp packages.Read the full article at source here

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Release Candidate is Now Available!!

admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:19:37 +0000

The Microsoft Application Virtualization team is very excited to announce that our version 4.5 Release Candidate is now available! We’ve been working incredibly hard since the Beta release to bring you the best version of the product to date and we think we’ve achieved that goal! Since the Beta release, we have added several new features, fixed bugs and made sure the product was ready to scale for enterprise deployments. Our TAP customers (selected customers who work closely with us to deploy the product into production prior to its final release) will be expanding their deployments to thousands of production users with this release in order to help us validate the product’s full feature set, as well as performance and scalability. (more…)