The St.Bernard iPrism works with Citrix's Application Virtualization platform - XenApp, and works quite well. Seen as a perfect complement to each other the Citrix NetScaler and XenApp products were tested with the St.Bernard iPrism Web Filter. Both companies offer architectures of one-arm (out-of-band) and two-arm (in-band) deployments. At Citrixlabs in Santa Clara, CA, USA, we tested both the out-of-band and in-band configuration of the iPrism Web Filter. We loved the fact that the iPrism is auto-discovered by the management software, so no console cable was needed.

With NetScaler:

We deployed the iPrism Web Filter behind the NetScaler in our proof of concept datacenter in Santa Clara, CA, USA, and configured the NetScaler for NAT (Reverse NAT) for outbound connections to the Internet. NAT is often performed by the Firewall. The Web Application Firewall, also part of the Citrix NetScaler, was configured for protection of inbound security threats to websites and web applications.

The iPrism was configured to monitor outbound traffic from the internal subnet of 172.16.104.0/24, and block all traffic to offensive websites, and monitor traffic to all other websites. The Real-Time monitor in iPrism gave us a detailed report on the users and IP Addresses that were going out to which sites on the internet. We could see who was accessing what, and which content was being blocked. Particularly nice, was the fact that the iPrism automatically authenticated each user to the Citrixlabs domain controller, every time they surfed a new website, without them knowing it. This was very useful for keeping a tight grip on security and for compliance reporting.

With XenApp:

The powerful value is in the integration with XenApp. We plugged the iPrism in as an in-line device, and configured it to work with Citrix XenApp©, formerly known as Citrix Presentation Server. One of the key questions that will arise in this situation is with all of those Citrix XenApp thin clients logging into the XenApp and then launching browsers to the internet, how does iPrism keep track of them. By adding the XenApp IP Address to the iPrism configuration, the users are tracked using "Session Based Authentication" - this catches each individual user and IP Address in each browser session and in the reports. We were impressed by this and determined the iPrism to be an excellent fit into a datacenter outfitted with Citrix.


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This is the very first edition of a highly buzzed virtualization event held in London, UK, from Oct 14 to 16. The event is three days long: first day (Oct. 14) is dedicated for distributors and resellers, second and third day are for the attendees.

But wait a minute. Another trade show? The answer is, Not really!

So what makes Virtualization Congress special, VC is shaping up to be a truly unconventional conference.

• No Slide allowed on Stage - Only 1-hour long demos: the product is being showed while applied to a specific use case, hopefully matching the ones that attendees may have back at their datacenters.
• It's independent, following the very successful model we know from BriForum, Virtual Congress is an independent and unbiased conference.

Never mind the level of expertise attending the conference: Simon Crosby, Mark Russinoivch, Richard Garsthangen, Scott Herold and many others.

Citrix as usual will be there supporting the conference as a platinum sponsor and deliverying the keynote, you will be able to interact with our top experts and product specialists, so feel free to stop by our booth and say hi to myself, Simon, and others.

Anything else? Yes. Citrix Certified individuals (CCA, CCEA, CCIA) will receive an amazing discount to sign-up for the conference, an amazing 25% off the regular price or $400 US dollars for a pass. *Details coming soon, stay tuned.

I'm looking forward to this event and I have here a video invite from Simon to share with all.

In the meantime you can check out the following links for more information.

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Memory is a big concern for XenApp on a 32bit operating system like Windows 2003 Server.  In the default state, Windows 2003 can only "see" 4GB of memory, which is split up into two equal parts: Kernel Memory (2GB) and User Memory (2GB). Kernel Memory is further broken down into 4 other parts:

• Paged Pool: Memory space used by the system and kernel level components that can be paged out of physical RAM and into the page file
• Non Paged Pool:  A section of memory guaranteed to always reside in physical RAM and is used by the operating system for certain kernel level processes
• System Page Table Entry : An index table that tells the operating system where the virtual memory actually resides in physical RAM or on the page file
• System Cache: Maps open files in memory for better performance. This is where the registry hives are located as well
  

Once the system has started, the different sections of kernel memory cannot be re-allocated. The system tries to allocate these 4 areas appropriately, but they might require "tweaking". However, the four areas cannot all be set to the maximum level as that would go over the 2GB limit of kernel memory.

Many of you are probably saying, "But I can use the PAE switch on Windows 2003 to go above the 4GB limit". You are correct, you can go above the 4GB limit, but are you aware of the consequences of this action?

1. You must be using Windows 2003 Enterprise or Data Center.  This setting does not function in Windows 2003 Standard.
2. The PAE Switch does NOT change the kernel memory limitations of 2GB
3. To use the extra RAM, more System Page Table Entry memory is used
4. If you have more System Page Table Entries, you will end up with less Paged Pool, System Cache and Non Paged Pool
   

Talk about being between a rock and a hard place. Adding more RAM and enabling the PAE switch "might" give you more scalability but at a great cost for a more expensive operating system, more RAM and special optimization configuration analysis and implementation. The reason I said "might" give you more scalability is because you will now likely run out of kernel memory before you run out of user memory. So you just bought a more expensive operating system and more RAM that will sit there wasted. 

Now I know some of you will add a comment saying something to the effect that you are using the PAE switch and ended up increasing single server scalability by 60, 70, 80 or even 90%.  All I can say is congratulations and I applaud you  . You are lucky as you have the right set of apps for this to work as well as it has.  But I want you to think about going down a completely different route.  Virtualization...

Keep using Windows 2003 Standard but virtualize it with XenServer. Upgrade the RAM on the physical servers so it can support 2-4+ virtual servers. In the end, you will end up with a system that is more flexible, scalable and easier to manage. 

If you interested in learning more about sever virtualization for XenApp, then take a look at the following:

• TechTalk Recording: Make Server Virtualization work for XenApp (http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/events/event.asp?eventID=1679445)
• White Papers
  • Reference Architecture
  • Implementation Guide
  • Design Considerations

Daniel

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One of the features of the Citrix Delivery Center Podcast is called the Citrix Countdown. The Citrix Countdown is focused on giving insight into our Knowledgebase articles and Citrix Technical Support in top five countdowns.

In the first Citrix Countdown on Episode One, Jim West from XenServer Technical Support counts down the top five most popular XenServer Knowledgebase articles over the last 30 days.

Here is the list from the first ever Citrix Countdown -

Listen to the Citrix Delivery Center Podcast to hear Jim cover each article in brief.

Citrix is all about virtualization. They have a suite of tools that enable IT departments to virtualize almost everything. Citrix is a Microsoft Certified Partner and, to some extent, a competitor. How does this Partner Competitor relationship work? Microsoft is very interested in virtualization technologies and with the advent of our hypervisor technology, HyperV, and application virtualization software, SoftGrid, you can bet that we'll compete hard with other virtualization vendors.

Here, we meet Simon Crosby, formerly of XenSource now working for Citrix (Citrix purchased XenSource). We discuss the relationship between Microsoft and Citrix, the complexities of building scalable, sercure, reliable and performant virtualization technologies and the future of virtualization. It's a very interesting conversation and Simon is quite the conversationalist. Enjoy.

In case you haven't heard or seen , I'll be hosting a live TechTalk on Wednesday, July 23rd at 1PM Eastern covering the virtualization of XenApp on XenServer. For those of you who have read my blog, I know there are 5 of you, will know that I've been working on this aspect of server virtualization for some time.  I plan on covering what you should virtualize, how you should do it and how to make dev/test environment better with this solution. So if you want to hear me talk on a great topic, don't forget to register here.

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We are all used to the familiar commands to configure IP Addressing on *nix and *dows types of systems, however there is a little bit of a trick involved with XenServer. 

Imagine if you had built your XenServer in one location and then transported it to another location where a different IP Addressing scheme was being used.  In order to have XenCenter come in contact with the XenServer again, you will need to re-configure the Management IP Address.  Since you probably won't RTM, and you don't want to rip your hair out trying to figure it out, the steps are outlined in this XenServer Tip.

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The last time I wrote about XenServer and XenApp, I focused on a whole set of items like manageability, availability, flexibility and utilization.  This time, I want to focus directly on utilization as based on the feedback I've received it seems it's the one many people are interested in.

Even before the scalability numbers of XenApp and XenServer came out, I had numerous conversations about virtualizing XenApp.  And now that Citrix is showing the XenServer overhead for virtualizing XenApp, those conversations have increased, but I think some critical points are being lost.  A couple of months ago, Citrix did scalability tests to identify that XenServer has roughly a 7-8% overhead when virtualizing 64-bit XenApp, and roughly 20% when virtualizing 32bit XenApp servers.  I was like WOW, 64bit is great, barely any overhead.  But how many people are actually running a truly 64bit environment?

Most people have the hardware, as it has been sold for years. Most people also have access to the 64bit version of Windows and XenApp. So why aren't we all jumping on the 64bit bandwagon? Because it's the applications. Unfortunately, many applications that XenApp environments run are 32bit, and some are still 16bit!  This conversion to 64bit applications will take time (Does anyone else remember the 16bit versus 32bit migration that happened years ago? It wasn't an overnight thing. It took time. And yet there are still 16bit apps out there.)  So this fact makes it highly unlikely that organizations will be able to convert their XenApp environments into complete 64bit setup. This means many will stay with 32bit only or else have mixed 32/64 bit environments.  So let's focus on the 32bit environments, are they virtualization candidates?

Maybe And most likely Yes.

Take a look at many XenApp deployments and what resource do you typically exhaust first?  RAM.  It is because in Windows 2003, we are limited to 4GB of addressable RAM.  So, when we hit that limit, everything else in the system is wasted (processor, IO and networking).  And I've seen some applications take enormous amounts of RAM. Just the other day I was working on some detailed Visio drawings and Visio took 1GB of RAM.  Yes, I said gigabyte.  (Of course the drawing was about the Simpsons and how Homer stays at the forefront of technology - He even had a blog called "Mr X. - All the Muck That's Fit To Rake").  So, a 20% overhead on 32bit systems? I probably wouldn't notice as my entire server is barely utilized except the RAM.  

RAM is easy to install and one of the cheapest things to add to a server.  Use the same hardware and increase the RAM to at least 8GB.  Now, try to run 2 virtual XenApp servers.  You might not double your user concurrency, but you will get pretty close, which will equate to hardware and power savings.

So take a look at your physical XenApp servers. Is the RAM fully utilized? What about the processor utilization levels?  I bet more likely than not the RAM is fully committed and the processors are running at 10-40% utilization. 

Daniel

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Application Virtualization is getting serious attention these days. Many organizations are considering the value of application virtualization as a fundamental part of their overall virtualization strategy. Take a look at the search traffic for the three major types of virtualization: server virtualization, application virtualization, and desktop virtualization. Search traffic for "server virtualization" is trending flat while "application virtualization" and "desktop virtualization" are increasing.

Many people interchange the terms application virtualization and application delivery . Both are important but they are not the same thing.

Application delivery is  about a bigger value proposition - it's about  getting applications to their users. User productivity is a key driver for application delivery. Ensuring applications are always available for these users to be as productive as possible. Improving the user experience is one of the main benefits of a good application delivery system. Application delivery is also about reducing the cost of getting applications to users and ensuring the most secure environment for applications and their associated data.

Application virtualization is a means to an end. Application virtualization is a technology by which application delivery can be improved. Application virtualization like any virtualization technology is about separating the target (the application) from its physical constraints (the operation system and its various components); separating an application from the confines that normally dictate the conditions of how and where the application executes.

A good application delivery system would take advantage of all possible application virtualization technologies to provide users the most flexibility, while considering costs and security. Application Delivery is about business value while Application virtualization is technology to deliver the business value .

And it's FREE! Throw away those behemoths that suck power from every grid in the state and drain your budget. This baby is Free, Open Source and VIRTUAL, meaning you can run as many instances of this router as you want on your choice of hardware. What is even more gratifying is it's faster than the old router technology.

Vyatta has commoditized router, firewall and VPN deployment in the same way that Linux commoditized the operating system market. Vyatta open-source networking offers you an alternative to over-priced, inflexible products from proprietary vendors.

Vyatta software enables customers to build routing and security solutions using standard x86-based hardware of their choosing, ensuring networks will always meet performance requirements. Vyatta open-source software delivers the unique advantage of allowing customers to scale networks from the simplest LAN configurations to large BGP WAN edge configurations using a single software package.

Vyatta software includes support for most commonly used network interfaces, industry standard routing and management protocols, and all of these features are configurable via a single command-line interface (CLI) or web-based graphical user interface (GUI) - avail Q3'08. The integrated features and functionality make Vyatta software ideal for SMB, Branch Office, Enterprise and Service Provider deployments.

Summary of features:
BGP, OSPF, RIP, DHCP, QoS, IPSec VPN, VRRP, PPP, 802.1Q, Complete List.

This open source router is already running on XenServer in a large service provider in Europe. We are using it in our Citrix Ready program as a multi-link Intranet with connections to the Internet along with high availability link load balancing.

This para-virtualized Vyatta image runs as a virtual appliance in XenServer v3.2.1 and v4.1.

The XenServer Platform we are using:

• Dell Poweredge 2950 server.
• 2 x Intel 64-bit Quad-Core Xeon Processors, Model E5335 @ 2.00 GHz each, for a total of 8 CPUs.
• 2 Intel 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet (on-board)
• 2 Broadcom NetXtremeII Gigabit Ethernet
• 16 GB of memory.
• 300 GB of Storage.
• XenServer v4.1
• *note: CPU's must support virtualization technology.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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XenCenter has a simple and intuitive UI. However when problems happen, the log tab sometimes doesn't contain enough information to help with debugging the issues.  I found it very useful to take a look at the debug log in %appdata%\Citrix\XenCenter\logs\XenCenter.log.  For example, the log file may be in C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Citrix\XenCenter\logs directory. Please note that Application Data directory may be hidden.

Here is an example of what's contained in the log:

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2008-06-10 10:02:05,579 INFO  Audit [Main program thread] - Operation started: ImportVmAction: pdxen2: Pool 95e79feb-a2fd-f744-8f03-a47ce57a2d2e (): Host 817c97de-2b6d-4670-a00d-0dcccff42531 (pdxen2): Preparing to Import VM
2008-06-10 10:02:06,016 DEBUG XenAdmin.Actions.ImportVmAction [7428] - Importing Rio-style XVA from C:\XenVm\Auto-Win2K3-R2-SP2-32bit-TS-IIS-.NET-SysPrep.xva to SR 10.2.248.123_local
2008-06-10 10:02:06,016 DEBUG XenAdmin.Actions.ImportVmAction [7428] - SR is not shared -- redirecting to 10.2.248.123
2008-06-10 10:02:06,016 DEBUG XenAdmin.Actions.ImportVmAction [7428] - Using https://10.2.248.123:443/import?session_id=OpaqueRef%3A4769e023-7c64-ca54-f6e0-e257b8be522f&sr_id=OpaqueRef%3A2fc1e3d8-0763-0099-7151-98f4610f37b1 for import
2008-06-10 10:02:06,063 DEBUG XenAdmin.Network.HTTP [7428] - HTTP PUTTING file from C:\XenVm\Auto-Win2K3-R2-SP2-32bit-TS-IIS-.NET-SysPrep.xva to https://10.2.248.123/import?session_id=OpaqueRef:4769e023-7c64-ca54-f6e0-e257b8be522f&sr_id=OpaqueRef:2fc1e3d8-0763-0099-7151-98f4610f37b1&task_id=OpaqueRef:1160c6fb-4a03-39c4-3336-0973573958c2
2008-06-10 10:02:25,469 DEBUG XenAdmin.Actions.AsyncAction [Main program thread] - AsyncAction.Cancel() was called. Attempting to cancel action

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I'm not sure where or when this conversation took place, but PC World had an interview with Simon Crosby, the CTO of the Virtualization and Management Division at Citrix, about future plans to build on Hyper-V. It was an interesting read, and I think that it helps reinforce a point of view in that no one company is going to have a hold on the virtualization market, it is going to have to be about interoperability, as we have only just begun to mold whatever form this market may become.

Continue at Source: Citrix CTO Mum on Plans to Build on Microsoft's Hyper-V

Looking back at the 2008 US RSA Security Conference, there was a tremendous amount of interaction, but not a readily apparent amount of innovation.

I spent the bulk of my time in meetings with customers, partners, press, and analysts. All seemed to echo the same sentiment - there's not any single "wow factor" at this year's RSA. But, that's not to say that there weren't hot topics, the two most obvious being DLP and Virtualization Security.

DLP

DLP, or Data Loss Prevention (also sometimes known as Data Leakage Prevention) is the capability to keep sensitive data from inadvertently leaving the organization. The concept and message around DLP is rather simple, but the architecture and management of DLP is where the difficulty comes into play.

When you consider all the sensitive data in most organizations, where it exists, and how it's used, you get a feel for just how big of a problem DLP needs to address. In most organizations, data isn't even regularly classified and labeled as public or non-public information. And, data has been over-distributed onto any media that can hold it (e.g. laptops, USB keys, iPods), often without any control. DLP technologies purport to get a handle around this problem and manage the access to and distribution of sensitive data.

On the surface, DLP seems like it's facing a really tough problem. And it is - if you're just trying to add controls to the existing model of data access and over-distribution. Looking at the problem with virtualization in your toolbox, though, can change our basic assumptions and bring us closer to the elusive goal of DLP.

Combining application virtualization and DLP allows authorized users to access a view of sensitive data, while providing additional context-sensitive controls around access to the data. As an example, a user in the office might be given the ability to use a data housing sensitive application on their corporate managed device only after submitting strong credentials and passing necessary security checks. A policy would prohibit them from using the application in ways that violate policy, such as printing sensitive info. Because the DLP software is integrated with the application virtualization environment in the data center, the DLP software has full control over usage of sensitive components data, and the data never leaves the datacenter. DLP can be much more effective when managed from the datacenter and the management of sensitive data on endpoints is eliminated from the equation. The same concept holds true for both application virtualization and desktop virtualization.

Virtualization Security

As the above DLP example shows, virtualization is stimulating innovative thoughts and challenging the status quo. There were many questions posed at RSA about upcoming client and desktop virtualization opportunities, in addition to current server virtualization security challenges.

On the server front, most of the discussions were around how network-level security objectives can be achieved in a virtual server environment. Organizations that have implemented server virtualization have watched as the proliferation of these environments have reduced security visibility for legacy network controls. The network folks want to know how to "see" into the virtual server environment, and how to control VM-VM communications. This is being accomplished for the most part through "security virtual appliances" or "security virtual machines" that duplicate physical network controls in the virtual realm. There appeared to be many vendors touting capabilities for scanning, IDS/IPS, and virtual firewalls with techniques borrowed from the physical realm.

The real breakthroughs appear to be just in front of us and will involve how we utilize virtual applications and desktops. The capability to virtualize and abstract for security isolation, as well as usability appear to be driving real change. These changes promise to allow user functionality to follow them anywhere, without cumbersome user configuration and management. And, with security policies built in, maintained and verified, we should see the trust models change for the better. Microsoft introduced some very interesting concepts and considerations around End-to-End Trust at the beginning of the show that extend well into virtualized client capabilities.

As the security industry matures, we'll probably witness less of a "wow" factor with each conference. But we'll all sleep a little better knowing we're getting closer to the goals of true security.

You may have seen my previous posts on the really cool Celio Redfly Mobile Compaion, or as I like to call it, the XenDesktop mobile companion. 

 We'll they just became a member of the Citrix Ready family.  They will be at Synergy in the Expo hall, so stop by and check them out.  Also, we will have a  unit or 2 at the Geek Speak Louge for you to check out connected to XenApp and XenDesktop.

 Redfly Citrix Ready catalog entry

Alright, latelly I have received quite unsual number of emails from readers asking about virtualizing and remoting usage when deliverying Microsoft Office 2007.

Office is the application most frequently delivered with XenApp. 

I will share two papers on this topic today.

One to show some of the many benefits of delivering Office applications with XenApp. It will also explain how XenApp can eliminate challenges associated with migrating to the new Office builds, allowing you to deliver the new versions immediately and at a fraction of the cost of a traditional deployment.

Download: Using XenApp 4.5 to rapidly deliver Office 2007



And for those looking for more information on how to deliver Office 2007 using XenApp streaming technology, you can download this advanced guide that has every technical detail needed.

Download: Streaming Office 2007 using XenApp 4.5



Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Gus Pinto

One of the most common questions I here from customers is "Does this app work on Citrix?". One of the goals of the Citrix Ready program is to help our customers and ISV alliance partners answer this question.

So how does an ISV answer this question when they are doing a sale into a customer? A lot of ISVs do not have access to a XenApp or CAE environment to really answer this question. Even if they did, they may not have any expertise to setup/configure XenApp or CAE to do testing.

To help this scenario, we have been working on the creation of MyCitrixLab. An online lab environment available to Citrix Alliance ISV Partners to Citrix Ready verify their application in both XenApp/CPS and CAE environment.

MyCitrixLab is currently in Beta testing with a few soon to be Citrix Ready ISV Alliance partners and is planned to go live by Synergy 2008. If you're an ISV and have interest in use of MyCitrixLab to help get your application Citrix Ready verified, please send an email to CitrixReady@citrix.com. Or feel free to look me up at Synergy in the Geek Speak Lounge at Synergy where we can give you a early look.

So what is MyCitrixLab:

• An online lab environment accessible via the internet that meets the configuration requirements specified in the Citrix Ready Verification Test Kits.
  
  
• Lab scheduling environment that allows an ISV alliance partner to schedule a 3 or 7 day lab environment for use with Citrix Ready Verification.
  
  
• SharePoint portal that contains additional information on use of the lab and helpful lab guides.
  • FAQ - additional information on the use of the lab
  • Verification Assist Guides that provide "extra details" on the use of the lab for a specific Citrix Ready Verification Kit. Step by step screen shots walk an ISV partner through each required step to complete the tests in a test kit if they are not familiar with a Citrix environment.
  • Administrator guides for products
  • Links to the Citrix Ready Verification Test Kits
  • Discussion site that lab users can leave tips and tricks on use of the lab for other users.
• Lab Environment
  • All of the actual lab servers/workstations area running on XenServer
  • Citrix Presentation Server/XenApp preconfigured lab environments
    • Lab environments uses of CPS 4.0 or 4.5 both 32bit and 64bit labs
    • CPS servers in a farm preconfigured
    • 2 client systems preconfigured for use with the CPS farm (1 XP and 1 Vista)
    • 1 Domain controller for the isolated lab environment
    • 1 SQL servers to use with apps the require a SQL database
  • Citrix Access Essentials preconfigured lab environments
    • Lab environments uses CAE 2.0
    • 1 CAE server preconfigured
    • 2 client systems preconfigured for use with the CPS farm (1 XP and 1 Vista)
    • 1 Domain controller for the isolated lab environment
    • 1 SQL servers to use with apps the require a SQL database

Note that this lab environment is reserved for use by Citrix Alliance ISV Partners solely for the intent of Citrix Ready verification of their product, so they can help properly answer the above questions "Yes, my app is Citrix Ready for XenApp and CAE!".

The current architecture of MyCitrixLab limits it use in most cases to ISV partners, being it is secured and isolated in such a way that no direct inbound ICA connections can be made from the internet, as well as being securely isolated from other labs being hosted in the environment. This level of isolation today prevents device and other IHV vendors from using the lab. Only the XP and Vista clients in the isolated lab environment have access to the CPS or CAE server's via ICA.

Some screen shots of MyCitrixLab below:


Pic 1: Logon/Sign Up page
 

Pic 2: WI Server page with scheduler shown
 

Pic 3: CPS lab server
 

Pic 4: Vista lab client system
 

Pic 5: MyCitrixLab SharePoint Portal
 
 

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Join top virtualization executives as Citrix and Microsoft discuss:

• Virtualization industry trends and how Microsoft and Citrix are joined to provide customers with best-of-breed solutions
• Key solutions for application, server, and desktop virtualization
• Reducing IT costs by 40% with Virtualization

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Satori Group uses XenServer, XenApp or Citrix Access Essentials to simplify and streamline delivery of their solution to their customers using Citrix virtualization technologies.  Nice implementation of the VADA concept.   

"Working closely with Citrix and Microsoft, Satori Group developed a virtual appliance for delivering a complete application solution to customers. Virtual appliances are preinstalled, pre-configured, ready-to-run enterprise applications packaged with an operating system inside a virtual machine. In contrast, a virtual machine, by itself, does not include applications."

Full release: Satori Group Partners with Citrix to Create Virtual Appliances for Turnkey Application Delivery