Change to vRD licensing model!

If you’re a vRD 2008 customer with a Company License, you must contact us by February 6, 2009 (that’s this Friday!) to tell us if you want your license to convert to a Country License or a Global License.

> Country license: allows the unlimited use of vRD 2009 within a single country

> Global license: allows unlimited use worldwide.

Both options are free of charge if you have active support, but the Global License will cost more to renew support when your current upgrade and support package runs out.

There is NO difference between two licenses except where you can use it. There is also NO difference in software functionality.

The pricing for the Upgrade and Support Packages for the Country License vs. Global License can be found at the bottom of this page:

http://www.visionapp.com/vrd-support.html

1 year:
Country: $350
Global: $574

3 years:
Country: $700
Global: $1,148

We apologize for any confusion this licensing change has caused. Please let me know if you’ve got questions.

vRD 2009: to be released February 2

vRD 2009 will be released on February 2, 2009. Contrary to popular belief, if vRD sees its shadow, it will not pop back in its hole, nor will we necessarily get six more weeks of winter.

In addition to RDP, the new product adds support for the protocols ICA, VNC, SSH, Telnet, HTTP, and HTTPS, and will enable you to administrate remote computers in Windows, Citrix, Linux/UNIX, and Macintosh environments.

For more information, visit the vRD 2009 website.

Best practices for managing Citrix

visionapp is hosting two webinars later this month on the best practices for managing Citrix Provisioning Server and Citrix XenApp 5 (formerly Presentation Server/MetaFrame).

We have an approach to system management which goes beyond a methodology. Our chief technologist Rick Dehlinger calls it an “infrastructure factory,” and the approach, while a bit different from how many IT departments manage their Citrix farms today, can save an enormous amount of time and money. And of course in this economy, there’s never been so much to do with so few resources.

Check out our webinars and sign up today!