Virtualization by Davis: “Technotes: How to Configure, Verify, and Troubleshoot TCP Window Scaling on a NetScaler Appliance” plus 19 more

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• Technotes: How to Configure, Verify, and Troubleshoot TCP Window Scaling on a NetScaler Appliance
• Release: Lakeside Software SysTrack Transform
• How Do You Catch a Cloud and Pin It Down?
• App-V streamed Apps don't get the date format
• Get Ready to Blow Your Sales Number this Year!
• Citrix partners with Cisco and NetApp
• Knowledge Creation
• Alliance Partner Momentum Continues to Ramp at Citrix Synergy 2012
• Vyatta Network OS 6.5 with Hyper-V support
• Red Hat Joins the Cloud Security Alliance
• Nimbula joins OpenStack Community
• Release: McAfee New Data Center Security Suites
• HDX SoC-based devices: Changing the economics of virtual computing
• Craig Ellrod Profile
• New Project Accelerator: Fast Track to Better Virtual Desktops
• Technotes: Microsoft Security Patch Validation Report for October 2012
• XenDesktop Site Checker v1.5
• Survey: State of the VDI and SBC union
• Citrix Ready HDX 3D ecosystem accelerates in Barcelona
• Introducing Citrix Auto Support – Help is on the way

Technotes: How to Configure, Verify, and Troubleshoot TCP Window Scaling on a NetScaler Appliance Posted: 17 Oct 2012 04:03 AM PDT Technotes: How to Configure, Verify, and Troubleshoot TCP Window Scaling on a NetScaler Appliance Update feed preferences This article describes how to configure, verify, and troubleshoot TCP Window Scaling on a NetScaler appliance.       (more) Products & Solutions | Support | Communities | News | Events | My Citrix (c) 2012 Citrix Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

Release: Lakeside Software SysTrack Transform Posted: 17 Oct 2012 04:30 PM PDT Today, October 17, 2012 Lakeside Software announced the release of SysTrack Transform at Citrix Synergy in Barcelona. SysTrack Transform will be availabile later this quarter, the product is an extension to the SysTrack data platform architecture, it will be able to accelerate desktop transformation, generating and updating real time analytics, reporting dashboards and workflow. SysTrack Transform imports data from the Microsoft compatibility database, from the Citrix AppDNA application migration software, therefore uses this data to create a Compatibility Score for each application that shows how compatible that application is with the targeted base image. Lakeside Software is also among the finalists of the Citrix Ready Best of Synergy awards for 2012. The awards will be assigned to the company that delivers the most innovative solutions based on Citrix technologies. Brinton Baker, chief marketing officer, Lakeside Software, said: SysTrack Transform enables IT management to quickly and efficiently implement Windows® 7 migration, virtualization and other projects in complex, dynamic environments. SysTrack Transform continuously updates the image plan with real-time user behavior data so the image plan always mirrors the environment. Labels: Citrix, Lakeside Software, Release

How Do You Catch a Cloud and Pin It Down? Posted: 17 Oct 2012 04:49 PM PDT Sorry, much like Family Guy, I can't resist a good Sound of Music reference. Now if only I could figure out how to incorporate "flibbertijibbet" into this blog… Anyway, even if you're not singing from a hilltop, I'm sure you've asked yourself that very question or at least something along those lines. How can you ensure your move to the cloud doesn't require a leap… Read More

App-V streamed Apps don't get the date format Posted: 17 Oct 2012 05:00 PM PDT Hi all, I have a somewhat unusual situation here. so the application that I am working with is a time and date format sensitive, and according the developer who written the app, the application does not specify any time, date, or date format and it uses whatever is configured in the system it runs on. To test this, I went ahead and installed it locally on a test VM, and sure thing it takes whatever you configure on the system including the date format. In the other hand this is not happening with the app-v package of this application even though I have the local interaction set to TRUE but it's still not picking up on what's configured on the local system it's running. I even tried rebooting the server to see if that helps the app picks up the configured date format, but that didn't help, and no matter what I change the date format on the system, the streamed app holds on whatever format it has. It's not even keeping the date format of the machine it was sequenced on. Any ideas on how to get this working right now allow the streamed app to take the time of the system it's running on? Any comments are appreciated. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Get Ready to Blow Your Sales Number this Year! Posted: 17 Oct 2012 01:28 PM PDT How? By running your own call blitz! Increase sales pipeline and generate high quality leads by dedicating specific days to making focused calls that will result in a lot of buzz, excitement and closed deals. Check out all the valuable resources (i.e. call scripts, PPT presentation, white papers, etc…) we made available to all our partners on Citrix Marketing Concierge. Search keyword: Shark Days. Through… Read More

Citrix partners with Cisco and NetApp Posted: 17 Oct 2012 02:59 PM PDT This is a busy period for virtualization and cloud computing. The OpenStack summit started on October 15 in San Diego California, VMworld Europe just finished a few days ago and another event already started in Barcelona today, October 17, Citrix Synergy. Citrix started the sessions with a couple of important announcements, the expanded partnership with Cisco into three strategic areas of cloud networking, cloud orchestration, and mobile workstyles. Besides Citrix also announced an extension of its collaboration with NetApp to deliver an integrated cloud orchestration and storage solution. Focal points of the partnership between Cisco and Citrix: Cloud Networking: Cisco and Citrix intend to jointly integrate the Citrix NetScaler application delivery controller (ADC) to seamlessly coexist with other Cisco network and security services, such as Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) and Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA). The companies also intend to integrate Cisco Nexus 1000V with Citrix XenServer® to enable enterprise and service provider customers to build clouds based in part on key open source technology. Cloud Orchestration: Cisco and Citrix intend to develop an integrated cloud solution for enterprise and service provider deployments based on the companies' best-in-class portfolios. This will include the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), Cisco Nexus Series switching, and Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) components, as well as Citrix's leading cloud orchestration solution — Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack. Mobile Workstyles: Cisco and Citrix intend to develop "mobile workstyle and BYOD" solutions that give mobile users a unified way to securely access business apps, data, voice and collaboration services from any device, anywhere. Partnership Momentum: Since the start of their partnership, Cisco and Citrix have more than doubled business together by deploying tens of thousands of new virtual desktops to small and large customers across the globe through the successful implementation of Cisco's Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) smart solution with Citrix XenDesktop. Citrix Senior Vice President of Strategy, Wes Wasson, said: Citrix and Cisco share a common vision of computing in the mobile and cloud era, and have a strong shared culture focused on openness, user experience and a relentless commitment to customer success. Extending our successful partnership to new areas like cloud, mobility and networking will allow us to bring some amazing new innovations to our joint customers in both the enterprise and service provider markets. On the other side, the partnership between Citrix and Netapp will focus on: NetApp OnCommand® Unified Manager. NetApp virtual storage console (VSC) for Citrix XenServer®. NetApp Vice President, Data Center Platforms, Patrick Rogers, said: The Citrix Cloud Platform powered by Apache CloudStack provides our mutual enterprise customers worldwide with a simple, easy-to-deploy architecture for transitioning from current IT infrastructure silos to private and hybrid clouds. The platform continues to gain momentum, and NetApp looks forward to working with Citrix on integration work that helps accelerate the transition to a shared, agile data infrastructure. Labels: Cisco, Citrix, NetApp, partnership

Knowledge Creation Posted: 17 Oct 2012 12:19 PM PDT I am currently conducting research for my doctoral dissertation regarding knowledge creation. The main objective for this organizational development project is to quantify learning effectiveness and innovativeness by measuring a learner's propensity to apply their knowledge. Please fill out this 5 minute anonymous survey to help me further my research: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/knowledgecreation The swift pace at which organizations have to deal with change and competition in… Read More

Alliance Partner Momentum Continues to Ramp at Citrix Synergy 2012 Posted: 17 Oct 2012 12:17 PM PDT From a personal standpoint, the fact that I needed to squat with our PR team until the wee hours of last night, turning the Indigo restaurant at the Barcelona Hilton into our new office, is a great indication of just how many exciting things we have going on with our partners this event. As Mark unveiled in his keynote today, Citrix is driving against a… Read More

Vyatta Network OS 6.5 with Hyper-V support Posted: 17 Oct 2012 12:38 PM PDT Today, October 17, Vyatta announced the general availability of Vyatta Network OS 6.5 with new features such as  Hyper-V Support, Policy-Based Routing (PBR) and BGP Multipath among the others. Furthermore the introduction of Hyper-V support, Vyatta Network OS 6.5 also delivers some improvements to its product: Policy-Based Routing (PBR) Virtual Tunnel Interface (VTI) BGP Multipath IPSec support for IPv6 Improved Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Dan Tuchler, Vice President of Marketing at Vyatta. We are seeing a growing trend of datacenters deploying multiple hypervisors to provide the desired amount of flexibility and to properly serve the end-user, by adding support for Hyper-V, Vyatta now supports all of today's top hypervisors and is the only networking company to provide software-based networking for VMware, Microsoft, Xen and KVM. The features released today further strengthen Vyatta's enterprise-class networking and security solution, all the while delivering improved agility to datacenters, the deployment of these technologies better prepares datacenters to rapidly react to changing business and application demands, to support private cloud infrastructure and provides a strategic roadmap toward Software-Defined Networking. Labels: Hyper-V, Release, Vyatta

Red Hat Joins the Cloud Security Alliance Posted: 16 Oct 2012 09:00 PM PDT Cloud Computing Team

Nimbula joins OpenStack Community Posted: 17 Oct 2012 11:29 AM PDT On October 15, the OpenStack summit started in San Diego, California. The four days event is sold out this year, forcing a live streaming of the key note sessions. One of the biggest news of the first day was the announcement of Nimbula joining OpenStack Community. CONTINUE READING ON CLOUDCOMPUTING.INFO… Labels: Nimbula, OpenStack, OpenStack Summit, Partnership

Release: McAfee New Data Center Security Suites Posted: 17 Oct 2012 11:39 AM PDT On October 15, McAfee announced the release of four new Data Center Security Suites. The subsidiary of Intel Corporation is going to deliver solutions that help secure servers and databases in physical, virtualized and cloud-based data centers. McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Server provides a complete set of blacklisting, whitelisting, and optimized virtualization support capabilities for basic security on servers of all types McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Server–Hypervisor Edition provides a complete set of blacklisting, whitelisting, and optimized virtualization support capabilities for basic security on servers of all types and is licensed per Hypervisor McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure provides comprehensive security for virtual desktop deployments without compromising performance or the user experience McAfee Database Server Protection provides data base activity monitoring and vulnerability assessment in a single suite, for all major database servers in the data center Candace Worley, senior vice president and general manager of endpoint security at McAfee, said: McAfee is leading the industry with these new solutions for protecting servers in the data center, the combination of whitelisting, blacklisting and virtualization in a single solution, offers an optimal security posture for protecting servers in the data centers. These solutions address the need in the industry to offer solutions that provide the highest level of protection with minimal impact on the resources they are deployed on and in a wide range of customized licensing options. Labels: McAfee, Release, Security

HDX SoC-based devices: Changing the economics of virtual computing Posted: 17 Oct 2012 02:45 AM PDT As the Citrix HDX System-on-Chip (SoC) initiative gets ready to celebrate its first anniversary since being unveiled here on stage at Synergy Barcelona, Citrix partners continue to radically alter the dynamics of enterprise desktop virtualization by delivering game changing end points to the marketplace. At the Synergy Barcelona 2011 keynote, Citrix introduced an ecosystem of new device partners committed to providing HDX technology on innovative end point devices based on standard… Read More

Craig Ellrod Profile Posted: 17 Oct 2012 08:37 AM PDT Craig Thomas Ellrod has more than twenty years of experience in the computer industry and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from California State University, Chico, and a Masters in Business Administration from Pepperdine University. He has held many positions in the computer industry including software programmer, technical support, field and corporate system engineering, technical and product marketing, product management and sales. He… Read More

New Project Accelerator: Fast Track to Better Virtual Desktops Posted: 17 Oct 2012 03:30 AM PDT If you're like many IT professionals starting a desktop virtualization project, chances are you are asking yourself the following questions: How much hardware and storage am I going to need? What is the architecture going to look like? What steps do I need to build into my project plan? Who do I need to include on the team? We get it. These are tough questions… Read More

Technotes: Microsoft Security Patch Validation Report for October 2012 Posted: 16 Oct 2012 08:51 PM PDT Technotes: Microsoft Security Patch Validation Report for October 2012 Update feed preferences Microsoft October, 2012 Security Patch Validation Report       (more) Products & Solutions | Support | Communities | News | Events | My Citrix (c) 2012 Citrix Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

XenDesktop Site Checker v1.5 Posted: 17 Oct 2012 06:20 AM PDT Hello Citrix community! Since this is my first Citrix blog post, I thought I'd give a quick introduction. My name is Kenny Baldwin, and I've worked on the Citrix global escalation team for the past three years, supporting both XenApp and XenDesktop. I presented at TechEdge 2011, and am an active participant in the support forums. I'm writing this post because I'd like to share… Read More

Survey: State of the VDI and SBC union Posted: 17 Oct 2012 08:11 AM PDT Virtualization.info has reported numerous of times about Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC) in the past. The project lead by Sven Huisman, technical consultant at PQR, Jeroen van de Kamp, Enterprise Architect and CTO at Login Consultants and Ruben Spruijt, Technology Officer at PQR already delivered a couple ofpapers providing valuable insight into Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Server Based Computing (SBC) deployment scenario's. Now, Project VRC has launched a survey because they want to provide more insight about the non-technical issues related to VDI and SBC deployments. The survey which should be able to give some insight into these non-technical issues can be found here: https://nl.surveymonkey.com/s/ProjectVRCsurvey2012 Labels: SBC, Survey, VDI

Citrix Ready HDX 3D ecosystem accelerates in Barcelona Posted: 17 Oct 2012 04:31 AM PDT At Synergy Barcelona Citrix announced a new collaboration with partners that will deliver Design Engineer Virtual Workstation solutions to meet the growing demand for secure anytime, anywhere access to 3D design applications. Partners have agreed that the goal is to help customers harness the value of their globally disperse resource base in a secure and efficient way. To build out a vibrant ecosystem that enables… Read More

Introducing Citrix Auto Support – Help is on the way Posted: 17 Oct 2012 04:25 AM PDT We can finally reveal the top secret news following the Synergy keynote in Barcelona today. I'm delighted to introduce Citrix Auto Support, which is available to use now (an earlier version was known as TaaS). The tool our support experts use is now open for all! This is kind of a big deal, so I hope you'll read to the end. Citrix Auto Support is a… Read More

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