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Worth the Upgrade: (Citrix PS 4.0 to Citrix PS 4.5)

Today I received the March 2007 Citrix Experience Newsletter.

Quality discussion on why upgrade to Citrix Presentation Server 4.5

The new features in Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 have the media and industry analysts talking.

See what the buzz is about...read about the new release and see how easy it is to upgrade.

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Take some new technology, sprinkle in strategic enhancements, and you get the new Citrix Presentation Server 4.5—the de facto standard for delivering Windows apps at the lowest cost, anywhere.

What are the media, Citrix partners and industry analysts saying about Presentation Server 4.5’s new capabilities? Read for yourself—and see the surprisingly simple upgrade paths that can help your organisation start taking advantage of these new features now.

SpeedScreen
What It Is

    SpeedScreen Progressive Display technology increases the performance of graphics in Windows-based applications by up to 20 times, making it possible for the first time ever to virtualise the delivery of even the most graphics-intensive applications with no compromise in end-user experience.

What They’re Saying

    SpeedScreen Progressive Display for faster graphics performance will be a hit with customers frustrated by the choppy performance of applications like Visio, according to James Candelaria [vice president of engineering, TheAdmins]. For partners, new streaming technology will allow the delivery of resource-intensive applications like CAD. “The speed enhancements are pretty significant,” Candelaria said.

    Citrix Updates Presentation Server, Kills Access Suite
    (CRN 02/13/2007) by Stacy Cowley

Application Performance Monitoring
What It Is

    Powered by Citrix EdgeSight—now included in Presentation Server Platinum Edition as well as available separately—this feature enables IT to quickly pinpoint and troubleshoot application issues.

What They’re Saying

    “We have a few significantly large deployments of EdgeSight in pilot,” [the Admins’] Candelaria said. “Anytime you can get functionality without having to go back for additional funding, that’s good. This is going to make some clients very happy.”

    Citrix Updates Presentation Server, Kills Access Suite
    (CRN 02/13/2007) by Stacy Cowle

Application Streaming
What It Is

    Application streaming centralises management of desktop applications, and isolates and streams them to users without application or system conflicts.

What They’re Saying

    “Security and remote access is a huge pain point for enterprises,” said Natalie Lambert, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. “If you want to talk about the future of the computer world, it is this ability to securely deploy and manage [applications].”

    Citrix Upgrade Untethers Mobile Users from Servers
    (Computerworld 02/12/2007) by Patrick Thibodeau]

    [Streaming] addresses Presentation Server’s “biggest weakness”—the fact that thin clients need to be connected to access applications, according to Zeus Kerravala, an industry analyst with Yankee Group. “You need to be periodically connected, not pervasively connected. With all the access methods they have now, this gives people a lot of choice for whatever access technology they want to use,” Kerravala said.

    Citrix to Release Tarpon Technology (eWEEK 02/13/2007) by Paula Musich

Dozens more new features round out the new Presentation Server 4.5. Read more about it, and learn why IDC program director John Humphreys said, “This latest release of Presentation Server with both application virtualisation and streaming technologies provides even more

And this leads on to Technical Specifics...
http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/migration/path.asp?contentID=163994

 

 

posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 7:55 PM