Citrix Unveils “Personal Cloud” Vision
May 25 2011 - 1:30PM
Business Wire
Today at Citrix Synergy™, where virtual computing takes center
stage, Citrix Systems announced its vision for enabling a more
virtual workstyle for end users through the concept of a “personal
cloud”. As users “go virtual” in all aspects of their life, the
notion of doing all their work on a single traditional desktop in
one physical location is rapidly evolving. Increasingly, people
everywhere are embracing a BYO mindset where they can pick up any
device, and have full access to all the apps, desktops, data,
contacts, and services they need to do their jobs, without having
to think about where those resources are actually located, where
data was saved, or what platforms each app component was initially
designed to run on. The freedom to work in this way, completely
untethered by the limitations of the past, is what personal clouds
are all about.
Why it Matters
Understanding how to enable personal clouds for end users is
important because it helps address the most dramatic shift in IT
since the advent of the personal computer itself – the
consumerization of IT. Consumerization is much more than a trend;
it is the new reality for IT. Offering people the flexibility to
work from anywhere on any device is no longer a luxury reserved for
the select few. It is a fundamental requirement for all businesses
and organizations hoping to attract and retain the best and
brightest people. Today, it is no longer a question of if IT will
deliver this level of choice and flexibility to their users; the
only question is how they will do it.
How Can IT Enable Personal Clouds for their Users?
Personal clouds start with people and the devices they use,
including PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets. So the first
component IT needs to address is the ability to support the DEVICE.
The next major consideration is how to securely DELIVER on-demand
apps and desktops to anyone, regardless of where those resources
originate. IT must also address the DATA – where and how business
documents and files are viewed, edited, stored and secured – data
that follows the user to provide easy and seamless access anywhere
on any device, and can be secured at all times. Finally, IT needs a
robust set of COLLABORATION capabilities for people to virtually
meet and support one another from anywhere.
New Citrix Announcements to Enable Personal Clouds
Citrix enables companies of all sizes to transition from
traditional desktop computing to more flexible, mobile “personal
clouds” by offering a complete portfolio of virtual computing
infrastructure solutions. The company made several announcements
today to support this vision:
- Citrix Receiver™ Now Enables Over 1 Billion Devices – Citrix
Receiver, an award-winning universal software client, is now
available for more than 1 billion devices, including thousands of
different PCs, Macs, tablets and smartphones.
- Citrix Enhances HDX™ Experience for Multimedia and
Cloud – the most significant upgrade ever to the
market-leading Citrix HDX technology dramatically enhances
performance, fidelity and bandwidth utilization for rich media
services like video, audio and 3D graphics, especially when
delivered over wide area networks or from external cloud
environments.
- New Cloud Gateway Delivers SaaS, Web, Windows Apps – this new
NetScaler product deployed as a physical or virtual appliance sits
at the “front door” of corporate datacenters giving IT an easy,
unified way to orchestrate the delivery of any mix of SaaS, web and
Windows apps to end users. Supports all browsers and all versions
of Citrix Receiver for any device.
- GoToMeeting® with HD Faces Enables
“Telepresence for Everyone” – integrates high-definition video
collaboration as a built in feature of GoToMeeting at no extra
charge. Open public beta now available.
- GoToManage® for iPad supports
Virtual Workstyles – a free new iPad app that enables anyone to
securely troubleshoot and provide real-time technical support to a
computer user’s system from anywhere.
Quote from Mick Hollison, Vice President, Desktop Marketing,
Citrix
“The computing landscape is rapidly changing from a distributed
model to a people-centric on-demand model. People expect that their
“personal” computing and “business” computing environments to merge
to be seamless and always available. IT must respond to this new
world while still maintain security and control. The new Personal
Cloud and supporting technologies enable this blurring of
environments to provide users with secure anytime access to all of
their applications and data from any device they choose to
use.”
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About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of
virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an
on-demand service. Founded in 1989, Citrix combines virtualization,
networking, and cloud computing technologies into a full portfolio
of products that enable virtual workstyles for users and virtual
datacenters for IT. More than 230,000 organizations worldwide rely
on Citrix to help them build simpler and more cost-effective IT
environments. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in more
than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was $1.87 billion.
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