Virtualization by Davis: “Comparative product review CA ARCserve r16 Vs. Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5” plus 16 more

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• Comparative product review CA ARCserve r16 Vs. Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5
• Cisco intents to acquire Cloupia and Meraki
• Why I am Documenting the App-V 5 Schemas
• Studio Simplifies Management in Excalibur – Part I
• Embrane is Citrix Ready
• Bitdefender is Citrix Ready
• SSL Optimierung mit Intermediate Zertifikaten
• XenClient CTO Series – Intelligent Desktop Virtualization as an enabler for next generation computing experience – Part 3
• Some XenApp 6.5 ZDC Replication Calculations
• Red Hat Summit 2013 Call for Papers Now Open
• Webinar: Get the Inside Scoop from Citrix Tech Support
• Social media: Coming to an enterprise near you
• Technotes: Microsoft Security Patch Validation Report for November 2012
• Cisco and Citrix: Delivering the Next Generation of ADCs to You!
• App-V Performance tests
• Emerging trends: Vendors pushing the software defined data center
• How to configure a Windows 7 end-point for Smartcard pass-through

Comparative product review CA ARCserve r16 Vs. Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 Posted: 26 Nov 2012 03:30 PM PST Today, November 26, CA Technologies published a press release where it is announched that according to a comparative product review made by Network Testing Labs, its product CA ARCserve R16 has beaten Veeam® Backup & Replication™ 6.5 in every category. Apparently CA Technologies has contracted the review in order to show the improved capabilities of its product over Veeam Backup & Replication.  The assessment image-based backup, file-based backup, replication/high availability and usability of the two products. Review highlights: • The review called CA ARCserve "a single answer for IT organizations that need both physical server and virtual server backup and recovery."  It said that in a hybrid physical/virtual environment, Veeam Backup & Replication "forces you to license two different vendors' backup and recovery products – one physical, the other virtual. The two-vendor approach doesn't make sense because it's more expensive and less productive." • CA ARCserve supports more virtual platforms than Veeam and protects the entire Hyper-V hypervisor host, while Veeam Backup & Replication does not. "CA ARCserve can thus recover an entire virtual host, as a single entity." • In comparing image-based backup functionality, the reviewer noted that "CA ARCserve's I2 (Infinite Incremental)™ is faster than Veeam Backup & Replication's synthetic full backup process." • Unlike Veeam Backup & Replication, CA ARCserve supports tape and provides a wealth of file-based backup features. CA ARCserve is also "fast, reliable and frugal in its use of storage space, offering built-in data deduplication at no additional cost." • CA ARCserve includes a High Availability component for companies needing maximum system uptime and availability for business-critical servers and applications. "Simply put, Veeam Backup & Replication lacks CA ARCserve's feature-rich, mature ability to replicate, monitor and automatically fail over critical servers," according to the report. Steve Fairbanks, vice president, Product Delivery, Data Management, CA Technologies, affirms: Organizations are looking for comprehensive solutions that can safeguard all of their data and application assets regardless of the platform on which they reside, this new review clearly demonstrates the key strength of CA ARCserve as a singular solution that protects customers' complex environments, while at the same time being easy to purchase, own and manage. Labels: CA Technologies, Veeam

Cisco intents to acquire Cloupia and Meraki Posted: 21 Nov 2012 03:30 PM PST Cisco announced on November 15 and 18 to be intentioned to acquire two privately held companies Cloupia and Meraki. Cloupia, focused on cloud computing platform management with its flagship product Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC), as we mentioned in a past article, according to its management team the company could have been easily a Cisco spin-off, and apparently we were right. CONTINUE READING ON CLOUDCOMPUTING.INFO… Labels: acquisition, Cisco, Cloupia, Meraki

Why I am Documenting the App-V 5 Schemas Posted: 26 Nov 2012 07:35 PM PST One of the great things about App-V 5 is that they have eliminated so many things that were not documented nor well understood. For so many years, my OSD Illustrated and OSD Reference e-book were the only place to find the full OSD file syntax. So it has been sort of disappointing to find a [...]

Studio Simplifies Management in Excalibur – Part I Posted: 26 Nov 2012 02:53 PM PST Over the last couple of weeks a series of blogs have gone out that provide a glimpse of some of the upcoming improvements to XenApp and XenDesktop; focusing on FlexCast 2.0, delivering Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8, provisioning with PVS, and many more great topics planned for the month ahead. For those of you lucky enough to go to Synergy Barcelona you may have… Read More

Embrane is Citrix Ready Posted: 26 Nov 2012 01:45 PM PST Embrane is dedicated to bringing unprecedented levels of agility to the network. For years, enterprises and hosting/cloud service providers have been constrained by the rigidity, high expense and management complexity associated with networking hardware. The introduction of virtual appliances has only marginally improved things. While compute and storage technologies have evolved to support rapid provisioning, programmability and more efficient resource utilization through the use of… Read More

Bitdefender is Citrix Ready Posted: 26 Nov 2012 01:35 PM PST There is no dispute to the advantages virtualization brings to organizations. As compute and storage technologies improve; through virtualization organizations are seeing better resource utilization with reduced operational and capital expenditure in their datacenters. The challenge, virtual machines are still susceptible to malicious attack and need to be protected. In many cases organizations use traditional security solutions in an attempt to thwart such risks. However,… Read More

SSL Optimierung mit Intermediate Zertifikaten Posted: 26 Nov 2012 12:12 PM PST Seit der Firmware Version 5.7/Linux bzw. 3.x/Windows des Citrix Repeater ist es möglich SSL verschlüsselten Datenverkehr zu optimieren. Dazu müssen folgende Schritte durchgeführt werden: 1.      Auf allen Repeater Key Store öffnen Aktivieren von SSL Optimization Importieren von Root, Server Zertifikat und Private Key für „Secure Partner" Konfigurieren von „Secure Partner"   2.     Nur auf dem Serverseitigen Repeater Importieren von Root, Server Zertifkat und Private Key für SSL… Read More

XenClient CTO Series – Intelligent Desktop Virtualization as an enabler for next generation computing experience – Part 3 Posted: 26 Nov 2012 10:20 AM PST In the last post of the XenClient CTO blog series, I discussed how the sharing of hardware and software resources results in security challenges for IT.  System virtualization provides unique advantages that can address these challenges. Essentially, system virtualization decouples the operating system from the underlying hardware, thus allowing running of multiple, concurrent operating systems on the same client device and server hardware. This was… Read More

Some XenApp 6.5 ZDC Replication Calculations Posted: 26 Nov 2012 09:17 AM PST With the approaching end of life date for XenApp 5, one of my customers is currently designing their XenApp 6.5 farm and asked for some assistance calculating the amount of data that would be replicated between each zone data collector.

Red Hat Summit 2013 Call for Papers Now Open Posted: 25 Nov 2012 09:00 PM PST Speaking Proposals for the 2013 Red Hat Summit will be accepted through January 4, 2013

Webinar: Get the Inside Scoop from Citrix Tech Support Posted: 26 Nov 2012 08:13 AM PST I am delighted to announce the start of a new series of monthly webinars from Citrix Technical Support. The aim of this monthly webinar is to share the tips, tricks and hidden secrets our support guys use on a daily basis when helping our customers. Each month we will pick a subject that is hot with the support dept, like a hot/common issue, new Citrix… Read More

Social media: Coming to an enterprise near you Posted: 16 Nov 2012 09:56 AM PST Social media in the data center may not be far off, as vendors and emerging technology trends point to increasing use of social networking in the enterprise.

Technotes: Microsoft Security Patch Validation Report for November 2012 Posted: 25 Nov 2012 10:30 PM PST Technotes: Microsoft Security Patch Validation Report for November 2012 Update feed preferences Microsoft NOVEMBER, 2012 Security Patch Validation Report       (more) Products & Solutions | Support | Communities | News | Events | My Citrix (c) 2012 Citrix Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

Cisco and Citrix: Delivering the Next Generation of ADCs to You! Posted: 26 Nov 2012 07:00 AM PST Did you miss the huge announcement? On October 17th Cisco and Citrix announced they  are expanding their strategic partnership! Cisco now recommends Citrix NetScaler as the preferred next-generation ADC solution to their customers worldwide. Want to ensure that your Cisco Cloud Network provides high-performance app delivery, plus intelligent load balancing? Then, trade up to NetScaler! It is recommended by Cisco as the best next-gen Application… Read More

App-V Performance tests Posted: 26 Nov 2012 05:33 AM PST Hello everyone. I would like to ask You about software that I can use to provide App-V performance tests. I want to simulate multiple connections to AppV Streaming Server and verify network traffic / load. Is there any software dedicated for such a purpose? Or maybe I can use some software for RTSP protocol testing? I would be grateful for any ideas. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Emerging trends: Vendors pushing the software defined data center Posted: 12 Nov 2012 01:35 PM PST Virtualization vendors have expanded operations well beyond servers. Their focus lately is on an entire software defined virtual infrastructure.

How to configure a Windows 7 end-point for Smartcard pass-through Posted: 25 Nov 2012 01:17 PM PST Updated: 2012-11-26 There have always been rumours (if you didn't know) that PIN pass-through was not possible when using a Vista/Windows 7 operating system rather than Windows XP. The difference is more thoroughly explained in the provided Citrix article (reference section), hence I will not deep dive into this. However what I want to highlight is that it is possible and provide the how-to. Setup… Read More

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