When you live in Boston, and it’s the middle of January, how do you tell your wife and the mother of your 4 sons that you have to go to Orlando, Florida, Disney World, for work? If you’re like me, you don’t. You send her a text and leave in the middle of the night.

Recently I had the pleasure of teaming with my fellow RESonians Gene Bonacci and Josh Goodstein to sponsor the Citrix annual Sales Kick Off (SKO) in the Peabody hotel and convention center in the heart of sunny Orlando, Florida. The weather was pleasant but certainly not what I would call ... READ MORE>>

Hot of the press from the Citrix team, RES has been selected as a 2011 Citrix Ready Solution of the Year Award finalist. RES is excited to be named a finalist by Citrix in this prestigious award two years in a row! We hope you enjoyed getting a preview of the great RES and Citrix demos we have planned for Synergy earlier this week. In other related Synergy news, RES has —not one— but two exciting breakout sessions at next week’s event.
Managing FlexCast delivery with the RES Dynamic Desktop Studio will be led by CTO Bob Janssen and Jeff Fisher, VP, Business Development. They will show you how you can effectively and efficiently ... READ MORE>>

Citrix Synergy is next week, and we’re excited about some great demos we have planned at our booth (#308) and in the Desktop Transformation Pavilion (#803). Here’s a quick preview of what you can expect to see from RES: Analyze your Current Environment for Successful Desktop Transformation – In this demo, attendees will receive a preview of the new RES Baseline Desktop Analyzer. Gather valuable data for users segmentation and optimal desktop virtualization with a lightweight, non intrusive desktop sampler application. Accelerate Deployment and Adoption of XenDesktop – RES Solution Architects will show you how to make pooled desktops feasible for a greater number of users, which allows you to persist user state and data from session-to-session when using ... READ MORE>>

Recently I’ve spend some time troubleshooting a customer's PoC for XenDesktop 4 with Citrix HDX 3D Pro Graphics support. The scenario All the prerequisites for installation were perfectly met: Seperate DDC with Platinum licenses, Online plugin 12.0.33 (shipped with de HDX 3D Pro Installer) and de HDX 3d Pro server msi. The DDC runs on 2003 x64. The HDX 3D Host runs on a physical Windows XP SP3 X86 with VDA version 4.0.5010 (VDA 4 SP1) - Nvidia Quadro 6000 Graphics card. The Client is Windows XP SP3 with Citrix Online Plugin 12.0.33 and runs RES Workspace Manager with the Windows shell as default shell. The actual problem When a user session (with RES Workspace ... READ MORE>>