The Short Stick

Sometimes you read an article and are left wondering about the future of a product or products. Priyanka Somashekar has a very nice write up about Citrix Director-based CPU & Memory utilization reporting. This feature, new with XenDesktop/XenApp 7.9 makes one think back to yesteryear with the data that Edgesight could obtain but that has always been missing from the 7.x lineup of Citrix workspace delivery tools. My response: Hallelujah!

Then I got to the end of the article and the comments. While 7.9 was explicitly mentioned as when the feature was released, towards the end Citrix Cloud was mentioned - but no on-premise. My fears were confirmed in the comments:

This feature is currently supported on Citrix Cloud. 

Seriously!?!? Such a significant release and it is only available on the Cloud product. While I know the Cloud product is a strong push for Citrix right now, neglecting 99% of the customer base with such a major announcement I can classify as rude and misleading - especially when this tidbit had to be spelled out in the comments and wasn't explicitly disclosed in the article.

Citrix Cloud is great for those environments that can use it (especially for DevOps). Given the need to have applications and data close to one another for performance purposes, large scale enterprise-class adoptions just won't be there until that hurdle can be overcome. Shame on you Citrix for the underhanded marketing ploy to make such a major feature that enterprises clients *need* and only deploy it in such a limited scope.