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Presentations Selected talks and presentations... It’s conference season again. Shawn and I were accepted to present our newest remoting protocol comparison results at Synergy in San Francisco. Our session is part of the Geek Speak Live! conference track and we will be presenting on Friday, May 11. This year we will concentrate on mobile devices and how Citrix compares to Microsoft RemoteFX as included in the beta version of Windows Server 2012. Get prepared to see exciting new facts if you have the opportunity to come and see us in San Francisco.
Client of the Future
A couple of months ago, Citrix invited me to join a GeekSpeak Live panel session about the client of the future. I was on stage with three other virtualization experts, and we were having a lively conversation about what we think where remoting clients will be going. One of the other speakers on the panel said that he believes that client platforms will consolidate and one day everyone will only own one multi-purpose device. I strongly disagreed and I still do – here is why. Read more..
MVP Summit 2012
Only 10 more days before I will be leaving home, heading to Redmond. It’s Microsoft MVP Summit again. Like every year I’m really looking forward to meeting with the Microsoft RDS product team and other MVPs for a couple of day. In contrast to last year there seems to be a good chance to learn about the real hot stuff this time. Windows 8 Beta is coming closer. This is good news because as soon as the Beta is officially released I can start talking and writing about it without violating my NDA. Yeeha!
Back to Tech
When I started working as a technical director for AppSense at the beginning of 2011, the deal was that I can use a good part of my working time for contributing to the RDS/VDI expert community in a vendor-independent manner. What this means is that AppSense is paying me for doing stuff that is not necessarily related to only AppSense products, like looking into the technology behind Microsoft desktop virtualization, Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop or VMware VDI. Read more..
New Tutorials
A couple of days ago I created a new section on my website, called Tutorials. I want to use this section as a library for documents I create when testing new RDS or virtualization functionalities or when preparing for delivering presentations or training classes. I started uploading a couple of documents I have already created in the past. Check them out and tell me what you think. Read more..
VDI in the Cloud at HP Discover 2011
A couple of days ago I had the opportunity to attend HP Discover 2011 in Vienna. AppSense was one of the exhibitors there and I presented our sponsor session at day 1. It was my first time at Discover and I must say that I was impressed: 7,000 attendees, 270 executive meetings and 533 track sessions combined with a big exhibition hall full of HP technology and partners from HP’s eco system.
Besides evangelizing attendees and HP staff about the value of AppSense User Virtualization, I spent some time trying to find out what HP’s story is around desktop remoting and desktop virtualization in combination with their cloud offerings. Read more..
How to Compare Remoting Protocols
If you want to learn about a good way of comparing remoting protocols such as Microsoft RDP/RemoteFX, Citrix ICA/HDX, VMware/Teradici PCoIP and Quest EOP, this article is for you. As you may already know, Shawn Bass and I have invested substantial time into testing and comparing the most popular Windows remoting protocols in our vendor-independent labs over the last months and years. Presenting our results at major industry events such as Microsoft Tech-Ed, Citrix Synergy, VMware VMworld and BriForum created some buzz in the market. Occasionally, vendors like Citrix and Teradici made some controversial public comments about our findings and conclusions. Read more..
Citrix Synergy Europe 2011 – Impressive and Confusing
I’ve been in Barcelona last week, attending Citrix Synergy. If I were a Citrix customer, I’d be both impressed and confused after this event. There is a simple reason for this: While Citrix introduced amazing new products and announced spectacular acquisitions, they missed to present a clear strategy or just a simple overview. What is a customer supposed to do now? Stay with the products he already bought and just upgrade them? Move everything into the cloud? Collect information about all the new Citrix components and products in order to build the big overview picture themselves?
Let’s dig into the details and take a look at the things Mark Templeton and a handful of live demo specialists covered in a two and a half hour keynote on Wednesday morning. Read more..
New Website Design
It’s done. My website goes from the old wtstek.com design that seems to come from the 80′s of the last century to a modern theme. Graphics design and usability improvements are from Katie Lancaster, Mangoberry Web Design and Services. Many thanks, Katie! Read more..
RemoteApp on Windows 7
Many people know RemoteApp programs as applications that are accessed remotely through Remote Desktop Services on Windows Server 2008 (R2). RemoteApp programs appear as if they are running seamlessly on the end user’s local computer. Not many people know that RemoteApp programs are also configurable on Windows 7. Read more..
