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Ok, the truth first. I normally don’t watch football. I like my baseball and hockey, thank you. (A’s and Sharks for the win!) But when the 49ers were demonstrating so much awesome in one season, even I got caught up in the excitement. But with the Giants taking the win last weekend, my interest in the Superbowl waned and I find myself getting all Peter…

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It’s official!  I’m headed to my first HIMSS tradeshow and it’s one of the largest healthcare IT conference and exhibits in the world. Citrix will have a bigger presence this year and I’m excited about all the education we have to offer just in our booth… Booth #4465. New for this year is that you will be able to experience so many exciting demos that will…

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Last week we discussed those excellent troubleshooting utilities which can act as savior in support/escalation cases (http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/01/27/excellent-diagnostictroubleshooting-utilities-on-netscaler/). This week’s focus is on the Technical support tools we have in Diagnostics module. Many times when you open up a support case, first thing you would be asked is to provide the “Tech Support File”. What is this file and how you get it? Single place where…

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IPv6 Migration – What, Why and How The first step for a Service Provider is to understand and define the scope of IPv6 deployment: It can range from assigning IPv6 addresses to customers, upgrading the backbone to IPv6 or supporting the content providers migrating to IPv6.  Choice of technology will purely depend on the network segment(s) being migrated to IPv6 and emerging connectivity requirements. Upgrading…

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Another busy month of attacks in January, this time it is about High Orbit Ion Canon (HOIC) that is an app to facilitate DDoS attacks on web servers.  See below for latest blog analysis on this.  It has link to both HOIC and LOIC (Low Orbit ION Canon) with details of the different attack approaches such LOIC using Java script embedded in a web page,…

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We spoke with Rick Echevarria of Intel and Mitch Parker of Citrix on their collective perspectives around the partnership and the market for desktop virtualization.

My son got a new lock for school yesterday, it’s a Master Lock model 1500i.  As opposed to the classic twist dial, this new modern lock has a joystick sequence to open.  Push the “bar”: Up, Down, Left, Right then pull to open.  He brings it home; hey dad, look at this shiny new lock!  As a computer programmer, my immediate response is “wow, that’s…

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I am pleased to announce that Self-paced Online Technical Training is available for Citrix VDI-in-a-Box partners. CVB-200-1W: Getting Started with Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5 Learn everything you need to know to implement VDI-in-a-Box. To be specific, here’s what you will learn- Identify a typical VDI-in-a-Box customer environment Discuss key product features Import and configure vdiManager Create desktop images and templates Create and connect to the grid…

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Citrix Marketing Concierge has posted campaigns on VDI-in-a-Box offering a plethora of resources, videos, and even a campaign specifically with a Demo. Now, we bring Americas and EMEA partners a campaign focusing on the whitepaper, “Top 5 VDI Considerations for SMB.” Citrix VDI-in-a-Box is an affordable all-in-one VDI software appliance designed for SMBs. Allowing your customers to deliver centrally managed virtual desktops for less, to…

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Ask your customers! Based on industry estimates, Citrix expects the personal cloud market to be a multi-billion dollar opportunity by 2015. Partners, don’t miss this opportunity! Check out the brand new Cloud Ready Seminar in-a-Box campaign on Citrix Marketing Concierge. This extremely successful Citrix seminar toured the U.S. late in 2011 so now, it’s your turn! Go to the site, customize your invitation, set up…

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Cisco Live! is in full swing and the message is clear. In the year of the London Olympics, ‘good enough’ is not satisfactory. The conference keynotes kicked off yesterday with a presentation from Cisco’s CTO Padmasree Warrior, who quoted some incredible statistics on just why Cisco won’t settle for creating ‘good enough’ networks: by the end of the decade, global annual internet traffic will be…

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One of the more common requests I see is how to prevent brute force login attacks to the Citrix Access Gateway or NetScaler AAA for Traffic Management Login pages. Like many other web applications that have a public facing HTML form used for login, this is an assumed risk. Part 1 of this article looks at how you can use the NetScaler HTTP Rate Limiting…

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It’s time to make your network cloud ready — without expensive “appliance sprawl.” Learn how to consolidate your network services with full performance, isolation and functionality. Attend this 45-minute webinar featuring real customer deployment examples, and you’ll learn how to leverage new data center architectures to consolidate critical network services. We’ll show you how to: •    Achieve the highest consolidation density •    Deliver true multi-tenant…

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Is the desktop just another application? Building on Daniel Feller’s recent blog post (http://blogs.citrix.com/2011/12/05/the-desktop-is-just-another-application/) We’ll be looking at the Citrix Flexcast model, to discuss the effectiveness (or not) of the sum of the parts: and importantly – how do you …

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Citrix Synergy in San Francisco will deliver even more targeted content this year, with four session tracks and over 100 breakouts presented by Citrix experts and guest speakers. The content will be divided into four tracks: Cloud Platforms, Apps & Desktops, Networking and Mobility. You can now get a first look at several of the key sessions by visiting the Synergy site. This “sneak peek” is a preview of the full session agenda, which will be announced at the end of February.

Our customers often ask how XenClient and XenDesktop work together. Citrix’s vision is to empower people to work from anywhere, on any device. For example, a mobile executive might use XenDesktop while at the office and XenClient while on the road. Citrix ShareFile ensures that whatever device a user is on, all their documents will always be there with them. We call this follow-me-data. I’ll…

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Recently, three new articles related to planning and deploying Citrix XenDesktop have come out to help you with getting a XenDesktop environment up and running with VMware vSphere.  Two come from Citrix Consulting services; a Planning Guide incorporating Citrix Consulting best practices from the field and the lab, and a Deployment Guide with step-by-step instructions to help you get your base configuration up and running.  The third document is a…

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Today I’ve created my first hosted mobile app running on XenApp. It’s no stunning app, but it shows how to handle the API using C#. As an API Reference I’ve used the following site: http://www.citrixcloud.net/mobilesdk/ For development purposes only, I’ve installed the Mobility Pack, XenApp Mobile SDK and Visual Studio 2010 on my XenApp demo server. First I’ve created a new C# Windows Form project and…

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One of the common issues people have been reporting in the forums is around getting StoreFront services working together with Access Gateway. We now have a KB article that should help resolve many of the common questions. You can access it here: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131908 If you have other questions or comments on StoreFront services, please let us know in the forums: http://forums.citrix.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1383

Citrix partners, come one, come all! Have you heard about Citrix Marketing Concierge and have wanted to see what the hype is all about, but it’s only been available to the Americas? Well, wonder no more! Now also available in EMEA,  Citrix Marketing Concierge is bringing Citrix partners a live training webinar on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 9:00 am EST. Register today and join…

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