VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

New Citrix Analytics Service will provide visibility into company-wide user and entity behavior, system security, performance and operations, and simplify IT infrastructure. Using machine learning and artificial intelligence to detect anomalous behavior and potential threats, Citrix is now able to deliver actionable intelligence from the information gathered via our cloud services and on premises products to help customers proactively identify and manage internal and external threats. Citrix Analytics uniquely enables customers to adopt a risk-based security model, allowing them to dynamically balance the needs of users to have rapid access to data with IT’s need to secure and govern the environment.  This new service securely aggregates and correlates user interaction with applications, devices, networks and data across our suite of products and cloud services to help detect and prevent malicious activity and data exfiltration. With an end-to-end view of the location of ...

One of the compelling aspects of technology is the pace of innovation and change. Not long ago, a laptop or desktop computer with keyboard and mouse hardwired to the corporate network clearly defined a workspace. In this new era of user-centric computing, where users engage across multiple devices, platforms and clouds, how does IT keep up? Visibility into these heavily distributed and complex environments is difficult. The good news is that Citrix is in the business of helping organizations of all stripes navigate this workspace transformation to achieve their future of work. An essential ingredient for IT pros to help them deliver secure digital workspaces in this fast-paced environment is advanced analytics. Citrix Analytics uniquely aggregates and correlates information across network traffic, users, files and endpoints in Citrix environments to gain a comprehensive view of users, application performance and usage. It provides predictive analytics with prescriptive actions. It...

Today’s users have multiple apps, files, folders and devices they need to access just get their work done, but all that technology doesn’t necessarily equate to improved productivity. In many ways, it makes productivity worse. A person may need to send an important document or an older presentation, but they may not be on the device where they saved that distinct presentation. Or there are a number of SaaS apps that an employee needs to access throughout the day, but each one has its own credentials that the user needs to remember and track independently. IT teams are also challenged with managing a growing application portfolio and securing various devices types and operating systems entering the enterprise. The workspace is about improving productivity and providing a better experience for how people work and where they work — with the right set of apps and files exactly in the moment they need it.” With the mission when we embarked on building the Citrix Workspace app was ...

Citrix has updated its partner programme and incentive portfolio. Citrix is delineating its partner incentives to reward distinct sales activities. Specifically, Citrix is introducing a new suggested upfront discount for partner-identified and qualified opportunities, clarifying existing incentives to focus rewards on objective activities, and expanding its marketing development funds to fuel partner growth. Kimberly Martin , Vice-President, Worldwide Partner Sales and Strategy, Citrix, said, “We are focussed on helping our partners bring our solutions to the mid-market and making Citrix the most profitable vendor on which our partners can build a business. We are committed to increasing the value of our partner programmes and resources. The changes we are announcing represent a second wave of improvements in 2016 and are designed to promote growth, drive profit and give our partners greater predictability, especially for those partners that invest in their rela...

Accelerite has entered into an agreement to acquire Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack and CloudPortal Business Manager. The transaction, subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close before 31st March, 2016. The addition of these technologies to the company’s cloud software portfolio will help enterprises and service providers simplify cloud management and accelerate the adoption of containers in the cloud. Citrix CloudPlatform is cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying public and private cloud infrastructure services. CloudPortal Business Manager is a unified cloud services delivery and business management platform that enables cloud services automation for provisioning, billing, metering and user management. CloudPortal Business Manager makes it easy to deliver a broad array of cloud services while integrating with existing business, operations and IT systems... Read more

Citrix has appointed Jatin Bakshi as Business Head of the Cloud Networking portfolio for the India Subcontinent. In his new role, Jatin will be responsible for performance of Cloud Networking portfolio at Citrix for Indian and SAARC markets. He would be working closely with customers and partners to accelerate adoption of Citrix’s innovations in Application Delivery networks, WAN optimization & Virtualization as customers are looking at virtualizing their data center networks. Commenting on this appointment, Parag Arora, Area Vice-President & Country Head – India Subcontinent, Citrix, said, “With disruptive technologies like mobile, cloud and analytics transforming business applications, optimizing application delivery strategy becomes critical for user experience and business success. Jatin’s appointment strengthens our focus on the networking segment and his rich experience will be an asset to Citrix’s Indian business.” See more  

Citrix has announced the CloudBridge Virtual WAN Edition, which reduces the cost of delivering applications, documents and IT services to branch offices by up to 80 per cent, while ensuring nearly 100 per cent application availability. The new CloudBridge Virtual WAN solution provides businesses with the flexibility to employ multiple cost-effective WAN technologies, offering the ability to scale WAN bandwidth at dramatically lower cost than traditional approaches. The new CloudBridge Virtual WAN solution extends the CloudBridge platform and its integration with the company’s HDX and application acceleration technologies, to offer the most cost-effective and highest-performance solutions for securely delivering mobile workspaces with the applications, documents and IT services people need to work better in remote and branch offices. Chalan Aras, Vice-President & General Manager, CloudBridge Product Group, said, “Businesses need a revolutionary solution to deliver ‘always-on’ a...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kaushal Veluri Director- Channels & Alliances, India subcontinent, Citrix   Partners need to demonstrate how technology can aid the IT roadmap; therefore, they need to be more of solution providers with a consultative approach than just being product resellers…. See More …………  Download Here

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Citrix  is working with Google to deliver business-critical Windows apps to Google Chromebooks . Chromebooks are experiencing rapidly-growing adoption across organizations of all types, including many of the largest enterprises, as they look to transition to new and innovative computing platforms. One of the key needs for these organizations is to provide users anywhere, anytime access to Windows apps that are critical for business, such as line of business apps for HR, finance and sales. Chromebooks for Business combined with Citrix XenApp virtual app delivery solution  and Citrix Receiver for HTML5, enable customers to deliver all types of Windows apps with the high-definition user experience of Citrix HDX technology, and operational scalability for the largest organizations. In addition to secure app delivery, Citrix adds support for collaboration with the recently announced GoToMeeting Free, a web-based app that...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Citrix(NASDAQ:CTXS) has reportedly made an official announcement regarding the new security and feature enhancements to the Citrix XenMobile solution . The new release empowers organizations in highly regulated industries, such as government agencies, to embrace device choice, improve productivity with quick access to more apps, and provide support for Microsoft Lync online meetings and other communication environments, without sacrificing security, control and, most importantly, user experience. Citrix also enables enterprises and government agencies that are planning to phase out BlackBerry devices to transition smoothly, knowing their data and existing apps are secure, integrated and supported. Tom Simmons, Area Vice-President, U.S. Public Sector, Citrix , added, "By embracing these mobility trends, agencies can improve employee productivity and job satisfaction while taking advantage of the latest in devic...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   In order to ensure that the channel partners of  Citrix(NASDAQ:CTXS)  are in sync with its mobility strategy which focusses on enterprise mobility and to enhance their learning curve about the company’s technologies, Citrix has started an enhanced training programme for its channel partners  in eight cities – Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkata  and Colombo. Citrix aims to enhance aims its new mobile workstyles and Cloud computing environment with this channel-enablement programme. Citrix solutions empower people to work and collaborate from anywhere and securely access apps and data on any of the latest devices, as easily as they would in their own office. As a practice, Citrix organizes regular training sessions with partners on the sales aspects of the product portfolio which encompasses XenDesktop, VDI-in-a-box, XenServer and NetScaler.  Kaushal Veluri, Director – Channels an...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   At  Citrix Synergy,  the company has announced Worx Mobile Apps built for business. Citrix Worx mobile apps are enterprise-ready mobile apps with security, policy and provisioning controlled by Citrix XenMobile. Worx mobile apps, offered with Citrix XenMobile, include WorxMail for secure e-mail, calendar and contacts, WorxWeb for secure web browsing and Citrix ShareFile for secure document sharing, sync and editing. Citrix(NASDAQ:CTXS)  also announced a new  Worx App SDK  for developers and a new Worx App Gallery for IT. More than 80 Worx-enabled third-party apps will be showcased in the Worx App Gallery. In addition, Adobe, Antenna, Appcelerator, Box, Catch, Concur, Expensify, HP, Good Reader and Xora have signalled their intent to work with Citrix. Citrix has developed a  simple and powerful Worx App SDK  that enables third parties and enterprise developers to Worx enable their mobile apps...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Cisco and Citrix  have announced an expansion of their successful desktop virtualization partnership into three strategic areas:  cloud networking, cloud orchestration, and mobile workstyles. Cisco and Citrix believe the IT industry is on the verge of the next major architectural transition:  the mobile-cloud era. To help enterprise and service provider customers capture the market transition and transform their business models, Cisco and Citrix will collaborate to unify best-of-breed technologies into innovative solutions for the mobile-cloud era... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Citrix has announced the release of Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5.1. It aims to delivers complete end-user personalization with personal vDisk technology and also incorporates several feature enhancements to improve flexibility, and performance such as optimizations for Google Earth, support for Active Directory failover, and beta support for the upcoming Windows 8 operating system. Kumar Goswami, Vice-President, Products, VDI-in-a-Box, Citrix, said, "As customers are growing their deployments on VDI-in-a-Box, they are looking to increase the level of personalization offered to end-users without increasing complexity or costs. With VDI-in-a-Box 5.1, we offer customers a simple and affordable approach to delivering personalized virtual desktops, helping businesses of all sizes leverage the power of desktop virtualization to deliver employee mobility and flexibility." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Citrix has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the 2012 “Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure” report by Thomas Bittman, Vice-President & distinguished analyst. The report evaluates Citrix XenServer, a key component of the company’s virtualization and cloud computing strategy. For its evaluation of the server virtualization market, Gartner highlighted that “vendor understanding and articulation of the strategic path for virtualization (expanding into the foundation for the future of infrastructure architecture and operations, and extending toward cloud computing) is particularly important and differentiating.” Sameer Dholakia, Group Vice-President & General Manager, Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix, said, “Citrix XenServer continues to demonstrate robust customer adoption, fuelled by a strong leadership position in the world’s largest public clouds as well as the leading posit...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Citrix has unveiled its team-based collaboration platform, Citrix Podio, at Citrix Synergy 2012. This follows the company's recent acquisition of Podio, a freemium cloud service that supports people and teams getting work done the way they want to in a social setting, through a unique apps concept that adds structure and activity streams to any type of work and collaboration. The company also announced integrations with popular work and collaboration services. By adding these services to the previously announced integrations with Box, Dropbox and Google Docs, Podio now supports all major cloud file and document sharing services. With these additions, Podio users can connect to their preferred services and work the way they want. Sharing content and getting team-based work done in a social setting has never been easier. "This is one more way we are enabling people to simply and effectively get real work done. Through th...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Citrix has teamed with Dell to deliver a new VDI appliance that accelerates desktop virtualization deployments for the mass market. Leveraging the all-in-one Citrix VDI-in-a-Box software, Dell and Citrix have created a simple integrated hardware VDI appliance that is pre-certified to support defined numbers of desktops. Based on VDI-in-a-Box grid architecture running on Dell servers, the Dell DVS Simplified VDI appliance can be easily installed to create and rapidly scale a virtual desktop deployment in response to business needs. Krishna Subramanian, Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, SMB Solutions, Citrix, said, "We are seeing tremendous customer and partner momentum with Citrix VDI-in-a-Box as SMBs and departments within enterprises seek to capitalize on the benefits of delivering IT services from the cloud by virtualizing desktops. Our relationship with Dell and the new integrated VDI appliance is aimed at making ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Citrix has announced the general availability of Citrix CloudStack 3, the first release of the market leading open source cloud platform under the Citrix brand. CloudStack is already the world's most successful platform for public clouds, powering over $1B in revenue for more than 85 large scale production clouds, including some of the biggest brands in the industry. With the new CloudStack 3 release, Citrix brings the power of true Amazon-style clouds to customers of all sizes. For the first time, enterprise customers who want to build clouds the way the world's most successful clouds are built can quickly and easily transform virtualized datacenter resources into automated, elastic, self-service clouds. Citrix CloudStack is a key component of the Citrix cloud computing portfolio, providing customers with solutions that make it easy to Build new clouds, Connect to existing cloud services, and Deliver any cloud with the best security,...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE F5 has announced support for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions, including Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View, Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, and others. Anil Pochiraju, MD, F5 Networks India said, "Many organizations aren't aware that they can overcome the most significant challenges of VDI deployments by leveraging their existing network infrastructure, specifically, their BIG-IP advanced application delivery controllers. BIG-IP products are unique in that they integrate authentication, directory services, SSL offloading, and other services throughout the desktop infrastructure so organizations can optimize virtual desktop delivery with fewer resources, while also supporting network and application access control for non-VDI enabled applications. Unlike the current alternatives, BIG-IP gives organizations the flexibility to implement a VDI solution that best meets their needs today, as well as tomorrow, while ke...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE EMC Corporation has announced a new EMC Proven solution for Citrix XenDesktop environments. The solution expands EMC's portfolio enabling Citrix customers to accelerate the adoption of virtual desktop infrastructures and realize the benefits of a secure, centrally managed end-user computing environment. The robust, flexible and cost-effective solution built on the EMC VNX unified storage with full NFS support, and the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) platform that has unparalleled desktop density and IO performance provides integrated application streaming and centralized desktop management for 1000 users. The solution utilizes a building-block approach which can then scale to thousands of virtual desktops. EMC also announced updates to the EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) plug-in, simplifying the task of creating multiple virtual desktop machines and registering them withCitrix XenDesktop. VSI continues to support self service ...