| More About PortICA |
| Tuesday, 03 April 2007 by Michel Roth | |||
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"Internally and externally there has been quite a buzz around this new field for Citrix. It is becoming clear that the desktop market is largely untapped by Citrix and that Citrix can add much value based on its experience with delivering applications from a server-based environment. The essential shift here is that PortICA makes it possible to support distributing Windows applications from workstation class machines (real and virtual). Also of note is that PortICA, which is part of CDS (Citrix Desktop Server), has split out work that would normally reside on CPS (Citrix Presentation Server). Like Brian and Sumit talk about in the interview, IMA does not reside on the PortICA workstation. The configuration and support has been greatly simplified for the machine that does the work of running applications. The concept is that the management pieces have been split to another machine so that the PortICA machine can focus on doing what it does best. It also makes it possible to apply the PortICA model to other problems and create other solutions. The management machine (which internally has been called the controller) can manage a great number of workstations based on the idea of splitting the work. Potentially it also allows for greater scalability with a CDS deployment." Read on here.
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