Goodbye Secure Gateway, Hello Access Gateway VPX

February 19, 2010 by Jarian Gibson 8 Comments

When Citrix started selling the Access Gateway product line, Secure Gateway became an endangered species.  The only question was how would you take a free product like Secure Gateway and transition customers to a paid product like the Access Gateway product line?  Well Citrix has done it by releasing the Access Gateway VPX that includes an Access Gateway Platform License that provides Secure Gateway functionality without requiring Access Gateway Universal licenses.  In this blog post I am going to go over the Access Gateway Platform License and Access Gateway VPX.
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XenServer “Midnight Ride” Features and Thoughts

February 13, 2010 by Jarian Gibson 6 Comments

Citrix has announced some of the new features in XenServer “Midnight Ride”.  This will most be likely be XenServer 6.0.  The public beta of XenServer “Midnight Ride” is targeted for mid March.  In this blog post I am going to go over some of the new features in XenServer “Midnight Ride” and my thoughts on those announced new features.
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Using XenDesktop with Hyper-V

February 5, 2010 by Jarian Gibson 1 Comment

Recently I have worked with Hyper-V and SCVMM in my lab to get more hands on with Hyper-V R2. I also recently started working with XenDesktop and Hyper-V using the lab manuals I received when I attended Citrix and Microsoft VDI Training back in November. Using XenDesktop with Hyper-V is a pretty straight forward process. In this blog post I am going to go over the process of using XenDesktop with Hyper-V.
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