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Citrix Unveils Mobile Enterprise Strategy at Citrix Synergy San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)--
Today at Citrix
Synergy™, the conference where mobile workstyles and cloud services
meet, Citrix unveiled the next phase of its strategy to enable the
mobile enterprise. With the advent of the Cloud Era, an increasingly
mobile workforce is looking for easier ways to work the way they want -
with anyone, from any location, on any device. Citrix is enabling these
mobile workstyles with an expanding portfolio of personal cloud
solutions that give employees the freedom and flexibility they want,
combined with the security and control businesses need.
Today's announcements make it easier for companies of all sizes to go
mobile - empowering employees to interact securely with any combination
of people, data, apps and devices - then bringing it all together in a
seamless, integrated experience for end users.
People
The Citrix mobile enterprise strategy begins with a focus on empowering
people to work from anywhere, with anyone, on any device. To enable
today's increasingly mobile workforce, Citrix today announced GoToMeeting®
HDFaces for the iPad, combining video conferencing, audio
conferencing and screen sharing into a single, seamlessly integrated
experience for mobile workers. This breakthrough all-in-one solution
makes it easy to collaborate face-to-face while on the go, all from the
convenience of a lightweight mobile tablet.
Today's mobile workstyles also require a new approach to team
collaboration. To address this growing demand, Citrix today unveiled the
first solution from its recent acquisition of Podio. The new Citrix
Podio offering delivers a powerful cloud-based team collaboration
platform for companies of all sizes. Unlike complex PC Era solutions,
Podio brings the power of mobile and social to team collaboration,
making it easy for people to work the way they want in dynamic team
workspaces, across any mix of employees, contractors and partners.
Finally, Citrix made it easier for IT to support workers when they
themselves are on the go. The new GoToAssist®
for mobile devices lets IT professionals provide live support from
anywhere, connecting to employee computers and solving problems directly
from their iPad, Android (News - Alert) tablets or Android phone.
Data
The second pillar of the Citrix mobile enterprise strategy is a focus on
data. The centerpiece of this strategy is Citrix ShareFile™, a powerful
cloud-based file sharing service that makes it easy for people to share
files with others, and to ensure that their information follows them
across devices, regardless of where it was initially created and saved.
To expand this cloud file sharing capability to a broader set of
enterprise customers, Citrix today unveiled the new ShareFile
StorageZones technology, giving enterprise customers the ability to
choose optimal locations for storing corporate data - either off-premise
in the public cloud, or on-premise, within their own private
datacenters. The new ShareFile StorageZones technology makes it easier
for enterprise customers to meet security, compliance and performance
requirements, without giving up the simplicity and elasticity of
cloud-based data services.
Citrix also announced
it is plugging ShareFile into its popular Citrix Receiver™ software
client, used by millions of people around the world every day to access
business applications on any PC, Mac, tablet or smart phone. As a result
of this integration, end users will be able to open, view, edit, save
and share documents on their personal and mobile devices, regardless of
where those documents were initially created. This breakthrough new
integration delivers on the promise of bringing follow-me-data to people
as they move across different devices.
Apps
The third component of the Citrix mobile enterprise strategy centers on
applications. With most business applications today designed for
Windows, desktop virtualization has gained significant momentum as the
primary way of delivering Windows apps and desktops as a service from
the datacenter. To make it easier for customers to get started with
virtual desktops, Citrix today announced a new RemotePC
option as part of the popular FlexCast® delivery technology in its
market-leading Citrx XenDesktop® product line. Using the new RemotePC
capability, XenDesktop customers will be able to quickly turn existing
office PCs into distributed VDI hubs without setting up additional
servers and storage in the datacenter. This innovative new solution
makes it easy for IT to give end users fast, secure remote access to all
the apps and data on their office PC from any device. Once IT is ready
to move to a more full-service VDI implementation, these distributed
RemotePC images can be easily moved into the datacenter to run in a
traditional hosted VDI model for better consolidation, security and
management efficiency.
As the app landscape shifts, an increasing percentage of business
applications are being delivered as web, SaaS (News - Alert), cloud and mobile apps. As
this transition occurs, businesses need a simple way to secure and
control this diverse mix of apps, while giving users easy, self-service
access to all their work apps and data from a secure company app store.
To deliver on this promise, Citrix today announced Citrix
CloudGateway 2, a powerful new update to its unified storefront
solution that adds extensive mobile application management capabilities,
including full support for native HTML5, iOS and Android apps. The new
CloudGateway release also adds integration with ShareFile, giving
customers a single unified control point for all apps and data
enterprise-wide.
Devices
The fourth pillar of the Citrix mobile enterprise strategy focuses on
devices. The centerpiece of this strategy is Citrix
Receiver, the company's universal software client, available on more
than two billion PCs, Macs, thin clients, tablets and smartphones
worldwide. Citrix Receiver makes it easy for customers to support bring
your own (BYO), flex-working and work-from-home initiatives to enable
mobile workstyles, regardless of the devices chosen by end users.
Citrix XenClient® extends the Citrix device support strategy to
corporate laptop users with a secure, client-side hypervisor that runs
directly on the laptop, even when disconnected from the network. Citrix
strengthened its leading position in this market today with the acquisition
of Virtual Computer, a provider of enterprise-scale management solutions
for Xen-based client hypervisors. Citrix will combine the newly-acquired
Virtual Computer technology with XenClient to create the new Citrix
XenClient Enterprise edition. The combined solution will give corporate
laptop users the power of virtual desktops to go, while making it far
more secure and cost-effective for IT to manage large fleets of
corporate laptops across a distributed mobile enterprise.
The final component of the Citrix device strategy centers on its
innovative new Citrix HDX System-on-Chip (SoC) initiative, launched last
October at Citrix Synergy Barcelona. This groundbreaking program was
designed to enable an entirely new generation of devices, capable of
running high-definition virtual desktops and apps at game-changing price
points and form factors.
Citrix was joined by multiple partners today to unveil the first wave of
devices featuring the new HDX
SoC technology. New thin clients from ATrust,
Centerm, NComputing
and ThinLinx
reduce the cost of high-performance HDX Ready thin clients by more than
half, dramatically improving the return on investment for desktop
virtualization just six months after the HDX SoC program was first
announced. Citrix partner HP
also unveiled an innovative new All-in-One zero client that uses
Power-over-Ethernet and consumes a mere 13 watts of power, less than
half that of comparable devices on the market today. Citrix expects
additional innovations in price and design based on the new HDX SoC
program to be announced by these and other partners in the coming months.
Bringing it All Together in a Seamless Experience for End Users
While enabling the mobile enterprise is a central focus for business and
IT decisions makers worldwide, it is also increasingly important for end
users. From the user perspective, however, enabling a mobile workstyle
is far more personal. Users today have little patience for outdated
applications, systems and devices that are complex to learn and operate,
and will increasingly go around IT if simple solutions are not offered.
Supporting these users means going beyond individual tools to provide a
seamless experience where everything they need just works - intuitively,
naturally and easily.
To deliver on this vision, Citrix announced a series of integrations
between its user-facing apps like GoToMeeting, GoToAssist, Podio (see
demo), ShareFile (see
demo) and Citrix Receiver (see
demo) - along with additional support for third-party apps and
services like Evernote (News - Alert), GetSatisfaction, Microsoft Skydrive and Google
Apps. By delivering innovative integrations between these apps and
services, Citrix customers can ensure that their broader mobility and
personal cloud strategies also resonate with end users who think less
about the "Mobile Enterprise," and more about "ME@work".
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and people collaborate in the cloud era. With market-leading cloud,
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mobile workstyles and cloud services, making complex enterprise IT
simpler and more accessible for 260,000 organizations. Citrix products
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than 10,000 companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2011 was $2.21
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