Author: Bas van Kaam

Father of three, EMEA Field CTO @ Nerdio, Author of the book Van de Basis tot aan Meester in de Cloud, Co-author of the book Project Byte-Sized and Yuthor of the book: Inside Citrix – The FlexCast Management Architecture, over 500 blog posts and multiple (ultimate) cheat sheets/e-books. Public speaker, sport enthusiast: above-average runner, 3 x burpee-mile finisher and a former semiprofessional snooker player. IT community participant and initiator of the AVD User group Community world wide.

VMware Cloud Pod Architecture – what it is and how it helps

Average time to read: 4 minutes

When dealing with multiple datacenters, spread over multiple sites or continents even, you are faced with a couple of challenges. For one, you do not want to manage your desktops and/or applications on a per site or datacenter basis. Neither do you want your users in, let’s say New York to connect up to a desktop somewhere in Europe, in most cases anyway. And if you do, you would like to have full control when it comes to assigning desktops and/or applications — or entitlements as VMware likes to call them. Flexibility is key. This is where VMware’s Cloud Pod Architecture can help.
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Going to Citrix Synergy? Don’t miss these CTP hosted sessions – complete overview

Average time to read: 8 minutes

During Citrix Synergy, the CTP hosted sessions are among the highest rated, and with good reason. They are, almost without exception highly technical and will provide you with an unbiased view in every way possible. Below you will find an overview on all Synergy session presented by Citrix CTP’s, or Citrix Technology Professionals in full. Note that I’m not saying other sessions are less interesting or of a lower quality, not at all. It’s just that being a CTP myself I’d like to advertise the program (and its members) from time to time, that’s all really.

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Inside Citrix: Web Interface & StoreFront — XML-based user authentication

Average time to read: 5 minutes

Initially, with the introduction of StoreFront it relied solely on its authentication service for user authentication purposes. This, as you might be aware is different from Web Interface, which will directly contact one of the configured Delivery Controllers where the Broker/XML service will take over. Since Web Interface is still widely deployed and used in (large) production environments (and StoreFront now also supports XML based user authentication) I would like to talk, in a bit more detail about both authentication methods available today.

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For your convenience – 100+ Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop FMA facts listed!

Average time to read: 15 minutes

I like, no wait, I love lists… there, I’ve said it. But no, really, I think (bulleted) lists are one of the best ways to share facts and knowledge. That’s also why I used multiple lists in my book, dozens of them containing hundreds of bulleted (FMA) facts. Throughout the various chapters I highlight multiple so-called ‘FMA facts’, 116 in total to be exact and I conclude each chapter with a list of key takeaways. This post is meant to share with you most of the FMA Facts that I came up while writing The FlexCast Management Architecture, though I did slightly alter quite a few of them.

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IoT use-case: The Connected Cow! Yes, really.

Average time to read: 4 minutes

In my role as Technology Officer for the Detron ICT Group I have the privilege of visiting and talking to other companies on an ongoing basis. One company I recently visited was Fujitsu where they showed us, and we talked about their cloud and IoT portfolio. Very interesting and exciting stuff to say the least. While the so-called Connected Cow was only one example of what they do when it comes to combining IoT and clout technologies, it’s a special one for sure and it definitely got my attention.

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A walk down memorylane – The Citrus… I mean, Citrix ICA and Microsoft RDP early days…

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I am sure you’ve all heard the rumours surrounding Citrix, yes? That they are supposedly working together with Goldman Sachs on a potential sale process, no? Have a look here, here or here and here. Whilst this might be true or not I thought this might be a good time to reflect and have a look at how Citrix became the company they are today. A (high level) history lesson if you will.

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Take the state of Disaster Recovery online survey. Win one of two Amazon echo dots!

Average time to read: < 1 minute

A couple of close community friends are running an online survey around disaster recovery services. I’ve taken it myself and it will literally take you 3 minutes to complete. Please do me and my friends a favour and have a look. Be sure to sign up when you’re done to enter their price draw. Here’s the link to the survey http://bit.ly/winadot Continue reading Take the state of Disaster Recovery online survey. Win one of two Amazon echo dots!

De Detron bloggers borrel – een (beknopt) overzicht

Average time to read: 2 minutes

Deze week hebben we onze eerste Detron bloggers borrel gehouden waar we, onder het genot van een hapje en drankje, uitvoerig met elkaar hebben gesproken over de meest uiteenlopende onderwerpen rondom het schrijven, onderhouden en publiceren van blogs plus overige technische artikelen en aanverwante als whitepapers, infographic ‘s, survey ‘s, presentaties en meer.

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Citrix XenDesktop Essentials – all facts listed!

Average time to read: 4 minutes

A couple of days ago Citrix shared with us the pricing and purchasing options of their latest Citrix Cloud based service, XenDesktop Essentials. This post is meant to clear up a few misconceptions and to answer one or two questions you might have. Due to license restrictions, Microsoft didn’t allow Windows desktops to be offered from multi tenant cloud platforms. As a result of current changes to their Windows 10 PUR, or Product Use Right agreement this has now changed. Windows 10 desktop machines are soon to be available from the Azure cloud/Marketplace Read on to learn more…

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The application layering technology cheat sheet, version 3.0!

Average time to read: 2 minutes

Throughout the past year and a half I have had some very positive feedback on the application layering cheat sheet, needles to say that I will continue to update the sheet going forward. Currently I am up to version 3.0 already. The main goal is to highlight some of the most important features and capabilities of each product and changes/additions when compared to the previous cheat sheet, version 2.0 in this case, though I will never be able to include all changes, features, and so on of every product. As such, this is by no means meant as an exclusive list.

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