Alexander Ervik Johnsen is a Blogger, Senior Solution Architect, Technology Evangelist, Author and Speaker, based in Oslo – Norway. Alexander has been working with Citrix, Cloud, Microsoft, Nutanix and VMware products since 1997 as a system administrator, senior consultant and Product Manager. Lastly, Alexander worked for Nutanix as a Cloud Architect.
Currently, Alexander is a Senior SE at Arctic Wolf.
VM Sprawl is an often used term in virtualization that is generally used to describe the wasted resources that can occur when virtual machines proliferate. Hyper9 VEO can detect and prevent VM Sprawl from happening in your VMware environment. With it, you can find, report and alert on: • VMs that have not been logged […]
IGEL Technology, the world’s third largest thin client manufacturer, reported that its UK business grew 73% in the first half of 2010 as organisations invested in their desktop infrastructure to deliver further management savings. In the UK, IGEL saw a 64% increase in its traditional thin client business and a 9% increase in its Universal […]
This article describes how to create a raw logical volume. Prior to XenServer 5.5, XenServer Storage Repositories (SR) used a raw logical volume in a traditional Linux manner. Starting with XenServer 5.5, Citrix XenServer has a newer container in the Microsoft VHD format. Although Microsoft VHD is a file specification, it is used with the […]
sepago, inventors of the Citrix User Profile Manager, offer a new solution for profile migration from today: For the first time, Profile MigratorTM enables network administrators to migrate user settings for Windows operating systems as well as for arbitrary windows-based applications on clients and servers. The effect: Users familiarize themselves with their new work environment […]
Citrix Systems, Inc. today announced it has optimized Citrix® NetScaler® MPX™ to support the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) recommendation to switch to 2048-bit RSA keys, which are used to secure data on the web. NIST issued Publication 800-57, which contains guidelines to move from the current standard 1024-bit RSA keys to 2048-bit […]
Robert Chen, Principal Product Marketing Manager, NetScaler » Citrix announced it has enhanced its NetScaler MPX product to offer easy adoption of 2048-bit RSA key requirements as recommended by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Citrix talks about why the company is leading the industry as the first to adapt its networking technology […]
Here is a list of good Hyper-V Tools. Some of them also gives you the ability to use them with Citrix XenServer, since they are based on the VHD image format. Wim2VHD Creates a Windows Server 2008/Vista/Win7 VHD from media in 5 minutes. VHDtool Command-line tool for VHD manipulation including instant creation of large fixed-size […]
More than 25 companies, including Citrix and Dell, support open source cloud platform to accelerate industry standards Rackspace® Hosting announced yesterday the launch of OpenStack™, an open-source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. Rackspace, the leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, is donating the code […]
Kaviza, the pioneer in affordable plug-and-play desktop virtualization for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), today announced the general availability of Kaviza VDI-in-a-boxTM 3.0 with Citrix HDX – an all-in-one solution that delivers high-definition virtual desktops with high-availability and on-demand scaling for less than the cost of PCs. Version 3.0 combines Kaviza’s strengths in affordability and […]
Kaviza is a next generation virtual desktop company founded by virtualization and VDI leaders from HP, IBM, and venture-backed start-ups. Our mission is to make desktop virtualization affordable, easy and practical. Both IT and end-users should be able to use Kaviza as a better and cheaper way to manage desktops, without having to worry about […]