Citrix Will Enable Windows 7 Remote Access for iPad
Remote access wizards Citrix have announced that they’re getting ready to make Apple’s just-announced iPad a fairly awesome thin client for IT types eager to connect to their bigger Windows 7 boxes (and hopefully Linux and others as well.)
It turns out the 9.7 inch display on the iPad with a 1024×768 screen resolution works great for a full VDI XenDesktop. Windows applications run unmodified and securely in the data center, and even multiple applications at once.
The iPhone restrictions of screen size and small keyboards are overcome with the iPad. The iPad looks to be an ideal end-point device that can empower users to be productive wherever they are and IT will be able to safely deliver company-hosted virtual desktops and apps without worry.
A good friend of mine who works as a network admin called me drooling over the idea of just such functionality right after the announcement. Assuming Citrix (and similar companies) can nail the interface, TiPb figures there’ll be another business vertical taking a serious look at the iPad.
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:35 pm
This is pretty cool.
Citrix is such a bandwidth hog that OTHER THAN local use (intranet) it simply does not scale well at all.
But its great for a campus or in-house pushing of apps to the work floor while maintaining strict control of the software and database.
Still, if they are working on a Mac OSX version (as rumored in another TiPb story), why not talk to Uncle Microsoft and have them release a native Win7 os for it too?
Citrix has always been something of a kludge and desperate measure.
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Here is something that could help Apple sell the iPad.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:17 pm
This means that theoretically you could watch flash enabled content via a remote desktop session….
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:33 pm
You can already RDP into windows boxes with the iPhone. Jaadu RDP is the best client I have used on any mobile device. I would have to say it is the best and most useful app on the iPhone. Well worth the $25 I paid for it.
And yes you can watch Flash but it probably will not be very smooth unless your on a local network.
February 2nd, 2010 at 6:46 pm
This is the only reason I would fork out money and buy an iPad in it’s current form. Controlling a Windows 7 computer via an iPad sounds fantastic!
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:53 pm
This is pretty cool, that a wonderfull point about flash
February 6th, 2010 at 8:26 am
There are other clients already out there, like Jaadu (mentioned above) or the combined RDP and VMware View client from Wyse named PocketCloud. I use this one fairly often on my iPod touch and the speed, stability and the cool mouse pointer is worth every cent. IMHO much better than Jaadu. Man, I really look forward to get my hands on a iPad to test PocketCloud there.
February 9th, 2010 at 5:23 am
What’s the point? If you want to runs Windows apps, just buy a Windows 7 tablet PC such as the Archos 9…