Citrix Unveils “Follow-Me-Data” Fabric to Enable the Personal Cloud
October 26 2011 - 4:31AM
Business Wire
Today, at Citrix Synergy™, the conference where cloud computing,
networking and virtualization meet, Citrix announced it is opening
up its recently acquired ShareFile data cloud to create an
extensible platform for sharing business data across a wide range
of apps, devices and services. The company’s new “Follow-Me-Data
Fabric” will make it easy for third-party developers and vendors to
incorporate common data services like search, share, sync, secure
and remote wipe into their solutions through a set of open APIs.
Taking a platform approach will also make it easier to create
dynamic mesh-ups that extend secure data sharing services to both
new and existing apps, and ensure that user data can be accessed
easily and securely from millions of business and consumer devices.
Citrix also announced the first two products in its own portfolio
that will be integrated into this open data fabric, Citrix
Receiver™, the company’s universal software client, and Citrix
GoToMeeting, the award-winning collaboration solution (see
graphic).
Delivering on the Personal Cloud Vision
In the PC Era, data was typically stored on a single personal
computer, accessed from a physical office, and shared via flash
drives or email. As the industry transitions to the Cloud Era, an
increasingly mobile workforce is demanding easy access to data that
is un-tethered from offices and devices, and easy to share and
collaborate securely with others. These trends are giving rise to
the concept of a “personal cloud” – the aggregation of apps, data,
preferences and friends that are unique to each individual
employee, and move seamlessly across any device or location. Citrix
is leading the charge to empower people to work and play from
anywhere by delivering “follow-me-desktops” and “follow-me-apps,”
and now “follow-me-data.”
Connecting Cloud Data into other Citrix products
The company’s new data cloud platform will be leveraged across
the Citrix portfolio in three key areas:
- Citrix ShareFile – The Citrix
ShareFile™ software-as-a-service (SaaS) product line itself will
continue to make it easy for businesses of all sizes to securely
store, sync and share business documents and files, both inside and
outside the company. Its centralized cloud storage capability
allows users to share files across multiple devices and access them
from any location (see Synergy demo video).
- Follow-Me-Data via Citrix Receiver –
Millions of people use Citrix Receiver today to access their apps
and desktops from any device. By integrating data sharing directly
into Citrix Receiver, it will be extended to offer users
self-service access to data from any device, anywhere. With this
integration, Citrix Receiver will become a single point of access
and self-service for users to all their business apps, desktops and
data. A technology preview for Follow-Me-Data for Citrix Receiver
will be released in the near future (see Synergy demo video). More
information can be found at http://FMD.citrix.com.
- GoToMeeting with Workspaces –
Leveraging the Follow-Me-Data platform, the next generation of
GoToMeeting will add easy-to-use, real-time data collaboration.
Now, regardless of if or when a meeting occurs, users have a way to
store and share files and meeting notes in one secure place. And
when they are working together on a shared document, they can
easily start a meeting with a single click (see Synergy demo
video). This is a key part of the company’s integrated
collaboration vision, combining high-definition web, audio, video
and file-based collaboration.
Citrix Ready ISV Partners Can Leverage Follow-Me-Data for
their Solutions
Citrix is also extending the Follow-Me-Data capabilities to
Citrix Ready® software and application partners. As customers and
partners build on the Follow-Me-Data platform, they will be able to
easily add follow-me-data services to their products, leveraging
the data that other apps store there, and instantly inheriting all
the management, mobility and scalability that is in the Citrix
ShareFile infrastructure.
Quotes
Jesse Lipson, Vice President and General Manager, Data
Sharing product group at Citrix
“It is gratifying to see how we are immediately leveraging the
ShareFile technology in the Citrix product line to enable the
Follow-Me-Data vision of anywhere, anytime access to data and
collaboration. With the three key components of applications, data
and collaboration, we are able to deliver on the personal cloud
concept for millions of users.”
Bernardo de Albergaria, Vice President and General Manager of
collaboration, Online Services division at Citrix
“GoToMeeting with Workspaces fundamentally changes web-based
collaboration. Today, there are two distinct camps for business
collaboration services – file storage and sharing and real-time
conferencing. Merging the best of both worlds, we are creating one
elegantly, easy to use platform that allows customers to think
differently about how collaboration can happen, anytime from
anywhere.”
Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy
Group
“A user’s workspace, applications, and collaboration tools
deliver minimal productivity without the associated data. The
easier users can access and share data while IT effectively manages
and secures it in the background, the more productive a businesses
can be. Citrix’s acquisition of ShareFile has the potential to
broaden access to data across applications and devices while arming
IT with an enhanced data delivery and management model.”
Related Links
- Expert blog: What Follow Me Data Means
to You
- Expert blog: Delivering the Best End
User Experience Just Got Even Better with Citrix Receiver
- Workshifting Blog
- Video: GoToMeeting Workspaces demo
- Video: Follow-Me-Data, Receiver and
CloudGateway
- Video: Sharefile demo
- Announcement: Citrix Accelerates Data
Cloud Strategy with Acquisition of ShareFile
Follow us online:
- Citrix Receiver page
- GoToMeeting page
- Twitter: @Citrix, @GoToMeeting
- Citrix on Facebook, GoToMeeting on
Facebook
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of
virtual computing solutions that help people work and play from
anywhere on any device. More than 250,000 enterprises rely on
Citrix to create better ways for people, IT and business to work
through virtual meetings, desktops and datacenters. Citrix
virtualization, networking and cloud solutions deliver over 100
million corporate desktops and touch approximately 75 percent of
Internet users each day. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies
in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was $1.87 billion. Learn
more at www.citrix.com.
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