According to their website, Cloud.com is poised to be acquired by Citrix Systems. The actual details of the transaction have not been made public, but TechCrunch indicates the purchase price could be up to $250 million.  A move like this further reinforces Citrix's stance on cloud computing solutions and puts them ahead of VMware for cloud solution software offerings. According to the press release, CloudStack will continue to support Citrix XenServer and VMware vSphere. It's also been stated that Citrix is planning on adding support for Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center. As the industry

The newest version of Citrix XenServer is now available. Version 6.0, referred to as "Project Boston" has been made available on Citrix.com Click Here for the official page. Some notable features and changes include: Workload Balancing is now available a virtual appliance for ease of use. New Self-Service Manager feature allows for easy creation of Private Cloud environments that includes support for both XenServer and VMware vSphere. Lab Manager superseded by SSM XenServer hosts and guests can now be managed with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012. HDX Enha

Citrix has released a new version of the Virtual Desktop Agent for XenDesktop 3.0 (Not Feature Pack 1). In this new version, the file copy process between target and endpoint device has been improved. Time last Modified and Accessed will be properly updated when copying between devices. Also, mapped network drives on the endpoint device will now be properly mapped on the target device (A fix welcome by all). For those who use Registry-based Desktop Delivery Controller Discovery on their target devices, registration should now complete properly and consistently. Other fixes and the downlo

Only 5 days after Citrix released XDE310VDA003, VDA004 was released. It fixes a total of 28 issues, many of which have plagued XenDesktop users. This recent trend of hot fixing is comforting and worrysome - so many issues with XenDesktop, but on the other hand, Citrix is fixing them relatively quickly. Some fix examples: Disconnecting from an RDP session can cause a Virtual Desktop Agent running on Windows XP to become unresponsive or to restart. After installing Version 3.1 (Build 3231) of the virtual desktop agent on Windows XP, the Citrix Audio Service fails to start. After in

On Saturday Citrix released a new version of the Citrix Virtual Desktop Agent (VDA) for XenDesktop 3.0 Feature Pack 1. It upgrades version 3.1.3236 to 3.1.3241 via XDE310VDA003. All in all there are 22 fixes in this release; 7 fixes for the previous hotfix, and 15 new fixes. Usually I would recommend waiting a while before applying a hotfix unless you experience one of the issues addressed, but most XenDesktop environments will suffer from at least one of these. Virtual Desktop Agents fail to register with Desktop Delivery Controllers located in separate Active Directory farms. This fi

While I'm sure many are still struggling to get XenDesktop working properly with a VMWare ESX hosting infrastructure and vSphere 4, Citrix is still hard at work pumping out fixes for it. Yesterday, Citrix released a hotfix for Citrix Pool Management which updates it to 3.0.3068 using hotfix XDE300PM002. The Citrix Pool manager can now reconnect to ESX after losing network connectivity or if Virtual Center restarts. It also fixes an issue with the previous hotfix where you could not import virtual machines through pool management if using vSphere 4. Get the hotfix and read the release

On Thursday, Citrix released a hotfix that resolved an issue where Virtual Machines would crash when migrated on Intel Nehalem processors. If you are using Intel Hardware with EPT support, you should install this hotfix. You can download Hotfix XS55E002, CTX122348 at the link below. http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX122348

Apple has released iPhone OS 3.0.1 this afternoon. It addresses the SMS vulnerability that allows hackers to take control of your handset. This update should be considered critical and should be performed immediately. To update your iPhone to 3.0.1, plug it in and launch iTunes. If you do not have Auto Update enabled, check for updates manually and then apply. Details on the Vulnerability: http://jorgeorchilles.blogspot.com/2009/07/iphone-and-sms-hack-what-does-it-mean.html Informal Announcement w/ Screenshot: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9915844&tstart=0

Yesterday Citrix released a new version of the Citrix XenDesktop Setup Wizard. The Setup Wizard is the tool used to provision Virtual Machines for use with XenDesktop. It creates the VM using a template, names it according to your specified convention, adds the target device to the Provisioning Server database, creates the Active Directory Machine Account, and then places the VM in the desired Desktop Group. Previously, there was an issue when you attempted to query vSphere 4 for VM Templates in order to provision new VMs. According to Citrix, this issue was fixed in CTX122057 as part of Ci

After many have voiced their opinion about Citrix's lack of support for VMWare's vSphere 4 product with XenDesktop 3.0, Citrix has released "Citrix Pool Management, Version 3.0.3061 (XDE300PM001)." CPM 3.0.3061 adds support for vSphere 4 for use with XenDesktop 3.0. Voiced Concerns:  http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=246967&tstart=0 http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX121997