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Expand virtual machines hard disk – automation

March 30, 2016November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion automation, disk, diskpart, expand, PowerShell, PVS, scrupt, VDI, vmware, XenApp, XenDesktop

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Sometimes, at some customers’s place, with an infrastructure already in place (XenApp with PVS or XenDesktop VDI pooled with PVS) the D: drive is too small. The drive where you redirect Windows Event Logs, Logs (UPM for example and/or other applications – services) This is a drive where page file is often redirected as well...

Are we missing something ?

April 18, 2014November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Crystal ball, Data, Desktop, Dropbox, MAM, MDM, RDSH, Sharfile, VDI, Windows

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As you might know I’m the CTO of a super cool company here in France (Activlan) base around Paris and one side of my job is to watch in my crystal ball to know what our customers will need and how they could use us to remain on top of their productivity with their IT. Reducing...

Project VRC released new white paper about impact of antivirus on VDI

January 17, 2013November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion antivirus, CTP, impact, performance, Project VRC, VDI

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I don’t post official announcement from companies usually but I have to good reasons to post this one : This is a very interesting and useful reading, a must know data you need to have in mind and it’s refreshed often enough to stick to the real world environment. Then two of my CTP mates are leading this project...

myCitrix Synergy Barcelona 2012

October 24, 2012November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Citrix, CloudGateway, Synergy, VDI, Windows 8, XenApp, XenClient, XenDesktop

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This year wasn’t as surprising as it has been in the past years on the innovation and “really new stuff”. Perhaps this is is because since I’m a CTP I know a lot more on Citrix plan before the announce it but I think the evolution Citrix brings into their product now will still take...

VDI, ok ? What’s next ?

May 31, 2012November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion BigData, Cloud, Cristal Ball, Data, Desktop, Microsoft, VDI, Windows, XenApp

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This blog is a follow up to the discussion we had in Vienna during the Geek Speak session at E2E event. I had to leave to catch my flight back to France but this discussion was very interesting and I though about it during all my travel time… I’m still on it writing this blog...

Application delivery method

December 28, 2011November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion application virtualization, appv, best practices, compatibility, streaming, VDI, XenApp

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After many years going from a customer to another, speaking with people all around the world, I wanted to share my experience regarding application integration. This is not a new topic but there are so many way to deliver applications today it can become very messy very fast. In a lot of companies I worked...

VDI is overrated

June 3, 2011November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion ChromeOS, Desktop Virtualization, Receiver, ROI, TCO, VDI, View, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, XenDesktop

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VDI is overrated! This is what I thought during several sessions at Citrix Synergy event last week in San Francisco. Of course the desktop, Microsoft Windows most of the time, is very important for companies but I think the battle around VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) takes place at the marketing level… Addressing desktop virtualization is...

VDI Project – Hypervisor war (part.3)

June 3, 2011November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Benchmark, Hyper-v, Project, Project VRC, VDI, vSphere, XenServer

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VDI Project – Not only a XenDesktop project (part.1) VDI Project – The framework (part.2) VDI Project – Hypervisor war (part.3) VDI Project – Desktops and applications delivery (part.4) VDI Project – User Environment Manager (part.5) Cool title right ? If you click on it then this title was just perfect 🙂 Within my desktop...

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