Of course, Citrix is nothing new — it’s been around for a long time — what’s new, here, is that this demo desktop is running out a data centre in the Docklands area of London, which means it’s ridiculously fast and ridiculously responsive. Plus the desktop is running on a dedicated blade server that just SCREAMS through the standard desktop applications. Word, Excel, and so on, they all start up in what feels like a few miliseconds. I particularly like the ability to return to my virtual desktop and find it sitting there precisely as I left it. I like the fact it’s online all the time!
I’m hopeful that we’ll see more and more companies begin to adopt this kind of facility for their end-users. I don’t think it will be long before many companies start moving the whole issue of ‘desktop’ into the cloud and simply pay for it like they do any other commodity service.
Are there any readers already using this kind of service in a live environment?
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This is the kind of thing LTE is made for.
I have got an account… It’s just not activated for me in the UK yet!
Agreed
Show us a video of you using the service to watch a video of you using the service…
I shall sort that out
Hi @smstextnews:disqus :twitter This seems to be popping up around the place now. OnLive is really quite brilliant – I can’t wait to see it in the UK. I have seen a few others doing it.
http://us.nivio.com/ just appeared and also the nice folk at
tucloud.com are letting play with a demo of a Citrix based solution – again using Receiver.
I just love the idea of using their servers and bandwidth to download, convert and youtube videos and the like 😉
Ah very cool indeed. I’m going to check out those companies!
Not sure what all that random text was!!
Andrzej Marczewski
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US proxy server – works a treat!
Duh of course! What was I thinking??