SANTA CLARA, CA » 2/4/2009 » Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today introduced Citrix® Branch Repeater™ 5, a key component of the Citrix Delivery Center™ product family, adding significant enhancements that accelerate the delivery of virtualized applications to users in branch offices. Many businesses have realized significant cost savings by centralizing their applications and desktops in datacenters using virtualization. Now companies want to move on to the next phase of IT optimization — consolidating the servers that provide essential services in the branch office. Branch Repeater 5 enables this consolidation without compromising the "high-definition experience" users expect through the addition of new HDX™ IntelliCache and HDX Broadcast technologies for Citrix XenApp™ (see today's related announcement). Multi-User Optimization with HDX IntelliCache and HDX BroadcastBy accelerating application delivery to the branch, Branch Repeater provides the benefits of a high-definition user experience for branch users. It accelerates application launch, printing and file transfers by compressing, de-duplicating, staging and prioritizing traffic across all branch users and applications, including those delivered by XenApp. With the HDX IntelliCache technology for XenApp, Branch Repeater provides branch staging for streamed virtual applications and branch caching for hosted virtual applications. And with the new HDX Broadcast technology, Branch Repeater delivers groundbreaking new adaptive orchestration capabilities for XenApp, sensing real-time network and traffic conditions, and dynamically optimizing delivery across multiple sessions within the Citrix ICA® virtual delivery protocol. Only Branch Repeater optimizes the delivery of native, hosted and streamed applications, thereby helping customers accelerate their IT consolidation initiatives while delivering a high-definition user experience. Deliver XenApp to
LAKE FOREST, Calif. - Jan. 27, 2009 - WD (NYSE: WDC) today announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive - the world's highest capacity drive and the latest addition to WD's popular, environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD® Caviar® Green™ hard drive family. This new 3.5-inch platform is based on WD's industry-leading 500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in2 areal density) with 32 MB cache, producing drives with capacities of up to 2 TB. "While some in the industry wondered if the end consumer would buy a 1 TB drive, already some 10 percent of 3.5-inch hard drive sales are at the 1 TB level or higher, serving demand from video applications and expanding consumer media libraries," said Mark Geenen, President of Trend Focus. "The 2 TB hard drives will continue to satisfy end user's insatiable desire to store more data on ever larger hard drives." WD Caviar Green is one of the most successful product lines in the company's recent history with its third-generation GreenPower™ technology, now providing 2 TB of proven reliable storage for today's high-resolution files and graphics. WD Caviar Green drives are designed for use in USB/FireWire®/eSATA external hard drives, desktop computers, workstations, and desktop RAID environments. "Saving power without sacrificing storage capacity is what consumers want, and what many businesses are requiring today. With the launch of the new WD Caviar Green 2 TB hard drive, customers receive the additional capacities needed to operate today's highly advanced programs and high-resolution digital files while using less power than typical drives with similar performance and capacities," said Jim Morris, WD senior vice president and general manager of client systems. Rock Solid Mechanical Architecture, Cool, Quiet Hard Drives A number of advanced technologies enable the speed, capacity and performance of WD's Caviar Green 1.5 TB and 2 TB hard drives. Those include: StableTrac™, which secures the motor shaft at both ends to reduce
Hi everyone, MS released a release candidate of Internet Explorer 8. If you are interested to check it out feel free to download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/worldwide-sites.aspx
Oliver Rist, Technical Product Manager for Windows Server Marketing, announced availability of Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta on Windows Server Division Weblog : For homo sapiens, getting older is painful. Take me for example. Nine hours on a plane never bothered me when I was in my 20s with a rubber backbone. But a couple of weeks out from birthday # 43 and one cross-country airplane ride translates into a sudden spinal meltdown that has me lying in bed, rigid as a vampire, popping painkillers like Christmas chocolates. Fortunately, it's not the same thing for software. In the life of Windows Server, today marks general availability of public beta for the new Windows Server 2008 R2-and, for me personally, I've never had my geeky mitts on a better version. The new release incorporates a host of new features and capabilities that I hope you'll check out; the code is as stable a beta as I've ever seen and combined with the beta of Windows 7 you'll be able to evaluate not just a bevy of new server-side capabilities, but a new level of synergy between server and client operating systems, too. A quick recap of my favorite highlights: While the Windows 7 client is available in both x86 and x64 versions, Windows Server 2008 R2 is Microsoft's first 64-bit only OS. It also supports up to 256 logical processors, which opens up a whole new world of enterprise-class back-end processing power. Your existing servers will run faster, too, because Windows Server 2008 R2 takes advantage of the latest CPU architecture enhancements. You'll also get significant power management improvements via features like Core Parking. Hyper-V in R2 now has Live Migration, allowing IT admins to move VMs across physical hosts with no interruption of service or network connectivity and significant network performance improvements. VMs in Hyper-V for R2 also get greater access to physical resources, namely support for 32 logical processors. It all adds up to the most flexible virtual data center in Mic
LAS VEGAS — Jan. 7, 2009 — In a keynote address at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced the beta availability of the Windows 7 operating system as well as the availability of the latest version of the Windows Live, a suite of personal communications services and applications. "I'm thrilled to announce the availability of the Windows 7 beta, which is on track to deliver simplicity and reliability," Ballmer said. "Windows 7 and Windows Live are part of an incredible pipeline of consumer technology that is making it easier than ever for people to communicate, share and get more done." The beta version of Windows 7, Microsoft's next-generation PC operating system, can be downloaded today by MSDN, TechBeta and TechNet customers. Consumers who want to test-drive the beta will be able to download it beginning Jan. 9 at http://www.microsoft.com/windows7 . Microsoft also announced the global availability of Windows Live, a free suite of communications and sharing applications. Windows Live makes it easy for people to communicate, share and keep their online lives in sync and in one place with one login. The new and enhanced Windows Live services — including PCMag.com 2008 Editors' Choice winner Windows Live Messenger — along with Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Photo Gallery are designed to work seamlessly with more than 50 popular Internet services. Ballmer also announced new alliances with the following companies: • Dell Inc. In February, to offer a comprehensive experience for consumers to connect, share and personalize their content, Dell will offer preloaded Windows Live Essentials (a free suite of applications for instant messaging, e-mail and photos that complement Windows Live on the Web) and Live Search on a majority of its new consumer and small-business PCs globally. • Facebook. In the coming months, Facebook users can choose to share content they post on Facebook, including