Not everyone has access to equipment at home or work to learn, experiment or test software. It often requires a pretty good chunk of money up front to get started – that won’t fly for everyone. For those who want access to fast, reliable and affordable computing power, the cloud is the perfect place to look. In this article we’ll cover building a 2 server lab to run Citrix XenApp 6.0 and a Domain Controller on Windows Server 2008 R2 on Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). Yes, Citrix offers pre-built AMIs for this task, but it doesn't help learn the entire process of installing a

In the past year we've seen an influx of new product offerings from Citrix, VMWare, Microsoft, and other smaller vendors. We've also seen the "Cloud" take off. Many people say these new technologies are simply hype, or are useful in only a handful of environments. I think they're wrong about both ideas. New technologies such as the Client Hypervisor, the cloud, and even VDI are all wonderful new things; begging to be taken advantage of. Things change so fast that we can't think in the same way too long, we have to have malleable minds. Don't think about where you would utilize a client hype