
Are your C-level executives asking why you haven’t “moved to the cloud?” Publicity is telling them that all businesses should be doing this now. Blindly moving to cloud-based solutions can be an excellent option, but it can also be completely…
Are your C-level executives asking why you haven’t “moved to the cloud?” Publicity is telling them that all businesses should be doing this now. Blindly moving to cloud-based solutions can be an excellent option, but it can also be completely…
Using a new feature of NetScaler 11.1, you can now accomplish just that. This new feature is called AlwaysOn. Essentially, AlwaysOn is a VPN connection feature that automatically can sense when a user device is on or off the corporate…
Windows Server 2016 is expected to release in just about two months. Most XenApp/XenDesktop administrators that I know typically look at the news of such upcoming releases and figure that means that they will start looking into whether their Citrix…
Many organizations today have either Citrix XenApp or XenDesktop in production today. A large percentage of those same organizations also purchased a Citrix NetScaler to encrypt remote access traffic for that XenApp/XenDesktop environment. This is an excellent way to protect…
Here is an excellent updated post on improving security using your NetScaler. There is never a guarantee of an impenetrable defense against an attack, but this is a huge step in the right direction. Following these NetScaler security best practices,…
Citrix XenMobile was named as one of the five Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) suites of products to be ranked in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. It gets high marks for user experience. WorxMail (Citrix’s secure PIM product) added a weekly calendar view,…
Okay, so lions, tigers and bears probably sound a bit scarier to the average Joe, but in the wake of huge data breaches this past year, the news of encryption vulnerabilities caused earth shaking tremors in the IT security community….
It really wasn’t all that long ago that user workstations didn’t typically utilize anti-virus software. The first “IBM Compatible” in-the-wild virus wasn’t found until 1986. McAfee VirusScan was released in 1987. Symantec’s Norton Anti-Virus was released in 1991. Kaspersky Lab…
With a recent update (version 42) released for Google Chrome, the use of NPAPI (NetScape Plug-in Application Programming Interface) is now disabled by default. If you’re like most end users, and frankly, many IT administrators, your reaction to this announcement…
There actually are ways to make a VDI project cost effective. http://blog.unidesk.com/vdi-cheaper-than-PCs