My blog readers that I continue to help and support--I will continue to do this! No disappearing acts! So don't fret! Also, I will continue to blog as always!
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Desktop virtualization is rapidly being adopted as the best way to deliver Windows® desktops to business users because it offers significant benefits, including user flexibility, desktop management cost reduction, and enhanced data security and access control. At the same time, laptops are fast becoming the desktop of choice in corporate environments, and while they meet the need for a great user experience and the ability to work from anywhere, anytime, they also introduce more complexity and greater risk for corporate data loss.
Now, organizations can extend the benefits of desktop virtualization to mobile laptop users for new levels of portability and security. Citrix® XenClient™ delivers the no-compromise control and security that IT demands and the performance and flexibility mobile laptop users expect.
XenClient is a high-performance, bare-metal hypervisor that enables users to run multiple instances of an operating system simultaneously, side by side, and in complete isolation. To ensure the highest levels of performance for the user, XenClient builds on Intel vPro hardware virtualization technology. XenClient leverages capabilities of Intel vPro technology to improve the user experience with their virtualized desktop.
Attend this webinar and learn how XenClient:
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Effective July 1st, 2010 visionapp NA Inc. will become Claros Systems, Inc. The company will maintain its current location in Auburn CA, and continue to be managed by the same, dedicated team that has served you for the past several years. The leadership team includes Chuck Fritz as CEO, Rick Dehlinger as CTO, and Christine Dehlinger as COO/CFO. Along with the other current employees, Claros Systems brings more than 70 years of IT automation experience to assist you with the design and implementation of agile, adaptive delivery systems.
Sony is recalling about 535,000 Vaio laptops world-wide due to a temperature-control defect that may cause excessive heat and distort the shape of the laptop.
The recall affects some F and C Series Vaio laptops sold after January 2010. The company said it will recall 259,000 units in the U.S., 103,000 in Europe, 120,000 in Asia and 52,000 in Japan.
In the short amount of time since announcing the availability of the Citrix Receiver for BlackBerry Tech Preview (May 7, 2010), we've received thousands of downloads to support select touch and non-touch BlackBerry devices - further allowing Citrix customers the ability to securely access their Windows apps and business information from any smartphone.
- BlackBerry users or IT Admins wishing to install Receiver for BlackBerry 1.0 can download now (see URL listed below).
- For BlackBerry users or IT Admins still evaluating the Tech Preview release, the Online Support Forum will remain available to address questions.
Download Receiver for BlackBerry 1.0.
Read "Receiver for BlackBerry is Now Available" blog.
We are pleased to announce that Symantec has closed on the acquisitions of PGP Corporation and GuardianEdge Technologies, Inc. These acquisitions will enhance Symantec's ability to make data protection more intelligent and policy-driven, enabling control over ownership, usage, encryption, archival and backup -- for a complete data protection solution that customers require today.
Over time, Symantec intends to bring together key features and functionality from each company's offerings and standardize on PGP's key management platform in order to deliver centralized policy and key management capabilities across the entire suite of encryption solutions. Symantec also intends to integrate PGP's key management platform into the Symantec Protection Center, which simplifies security information management by providing customers consolidated access to threat, security and operational dashboards and reporting. Integrating PGP's key management platform into the Symantec Protection Center will further enhance existing integration into endpoint security, data loss prevention and gateway security products. Integrating encryption technologies and PGP's key management platform into the Symantec portfolio will help customers better protect sensitive information regardless of where it is created, used or stored, while providing a consistent key management experience.
PGP and GuardianEdge solutions are ideal for Symantec's worldwide partner distribution network. PGP's customer base crosses enterprise, small and medium business, and individuals. GuardianEdge provides strength in government segments requiring hard disk and removable media encryption. The addition of encryption offerings will help you differentiate your business and provide up-sell and cross-sell opportunities as customers seek to conduct business with fewer vendors.
At Symantec, we value our partners and with the close of these acquisitions our immediate goal is to continue to conduct business as usual with minimal disruption to your business. So for now, please continue to order as you always have from Symantec, PGP and/or GuardianEdge. During the coming months we will be focused on setting a combined roadmap and you can expect to hear more from us as this is finalized and any changes to ordering, support or products are announced. Until then, please continue operating business as usual.
SANTA CLARA, CA » 6/2/2010 » Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS) today announced the immediate availability of Citrix XenServer® 5.6. Unveiled earlier this month at Citrix Synergy™ 2010, the latest release adds new features across the entire product line, enhancing the enterprise-ready, cloud-proven virtualization platform with all the capabilities needed to create and manage a virtual infrastructure at a fraction of the cost of competing products.
Last year, Citrix introduced the Free Edition of XenServer, setting an entirely new standard in the industry by offering an enterprise-ready, cloud-proven server virtualization platform for no cost. Since then, XenServer has been activated for production use in more than 45,000 enterprise datacenters worldwide, including 45 percent of the Fortune 500.
"We started with the free version of Citrix XenServer and went on to deploy the Enterprise Edition in favor of competing products," said Rutger Pannekoek, Manager of Services and Application Engineering, TomTom. "Of course, the cost and quality were important, but we were especially attracted to the open source basis of the product combined with the commercial support by Citrix. Now we have hundreds of virtual servers running on XenServer, which has enabled us to have an always-on and dynamic datacenter, with the ability to easily move workloads between physical servers when needed."
Key Facts and Highlights:
Stratodesk - The first SaaS endpoint provisioning and management
Stratodesk is a unique cloud-based service that cuts your IT costs by desktop provisioning and desktop management. The SaaS approach allows to repurpose any PC or TC hardware and to manage these devices with integrated web-based, hosted management. This solution instantly converts a mess of different platforms into a uniform set of "client devices"-forming the desktop cloud. Each terminal is capable of connecting to VDI installations, server based computing (SBC) environments, the Web and cloud services and/or running Stratodesk's unique "Deskside VDI", a local VM on the enduser's device.
Stratodesk consists of the Stratodesk OS and Stratodesk Management Tool
Stratodesk OS - A Linux based host OS, which can be installed on any desktop device.
Stratodesk OS is using "Deskside VDI". Deskside VDI allows installing a local virtual machine directly on the repurposed device.
Stratodesk Management Tool: This absolutely unique Management Tool unifies Server Based Computing (SBC), Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and takes them all to the cloud - The Desktop Cloud. An intelligent management system now controls assignment of VMs to devices. Even more the Stratodesk Management tool monitors all devices, traditional thin clients (SBC) as well as devices using Deskside VDI. The tool controls the usage of peripherals , and configures remote connection parameters.
No installation is necessary. Stratodesk Management is available globally as a hosted service and is the first hosted management solution for desktop devices worldwide.
Experience these Benefits with Stratodesk:
- Cost saving by less administration. Compared to a standard PC network, SBC and HVD actually increase the overall complexity of your IT structure as long as the desktop devices do not become "thin". The Stratodesk solution is software based, maintenance-free and secure. Administration is limited to roll-out of desired feature updates.
- Cost saving by less hardware purchases. Stratodesk not only allows to better utilize and extend the life-cycle of existing desktop hardware, it also saves cost on the server side: Why buy expensive server-side CPU and storage power for HVD when you can do HVD with your desktop PCs at a fraction of the cost?
- Flexibility. Changing from SBC to HVD or vice-versa is a matter of a mouse click. Traditionally you might have suffered from a vendor-lock-in when buying e.g. specialized Thin Clients - a cul-de-sac with no return.
- Peace of mind. With all your desktops under tight control by the management system, it is easy to adapt to new requirements and provide up-to-date information at the push of a button.
