Archive for November, 2009
Intel Atom/NVIDIA ION and Citrix XenDesktop – a match made in heaven for thin clients?
Today I received my brand new NVIDIA ION mainbord from Point of View which I bought to update my personal HTPC. But it came to my mind why no one is using this thing as thin client?
In my following article I assume that the customer is going to use Citrix XenDesktop for delivering desktops and applications to his employees. That means the thin clients are going to connect to Windows flavored desktops which are published through XenDesktop.
You can get a full featured NVIDIA ION-based PC for about 257€. Full featured means: Single- or Dual Core 1,6 Ghz Atom CPU, 2Gigs of RAM, 320GB HDD, Geforce 9400m GPU, Gigabit ethernet and even a DVD writer. Oh and yes, you can also use multiple monitors as you have HDMI, DVI and VGA video output.
The power consumption is also pretty low compared to a normal desktop PC, a DELL Optiplex 740n needs about 60 to 90 watts. The ION only needs about 20 watts in idle state and between 25 and 30 watts under full load. More…
Citrix Products 2010: A Wish List (continued)
Yesterday I read Helge’s article about his whish list for Citrix products in the year 2010. As I really like the idea of creating a wish list I just want to expand Helge’s list with my wishes. Hope he don’t mind. I also want to encourage every other blogger to continue this list as well.
By the way, my additions are marked red.
XenApp
- A version of XenApp that runs on Windows Server 2008 R2
- One console only, at least for XenApp
- PowerShell SDK for managing XenApp
- Realtime audio/video so that, for example, Microsoft Office Communication Server can be used well
- Migration tool that exports an old farm’s settings and imports them after optional transformation into a new far
- Consistent feature set among the XenApp versions (2003 / 2008 / 2008 R2)
- Special folder redirection, power management, HDX Flash, etc