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  • Citrix® and Google Cloud Simplify Shift to Flexible Work

    New Citrix DaaS solutions available on Google Cloud Marketplace deliver cost and time-savings in making transition from procurement to deployment.

    Fort Lauderdale, FL, May 4, 2022 — Last year, Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS) and Google Cloud announced their commitment to helping customers accelerate and embrace hybrid work models through Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solutions. And they’re delivering on it. The companies today announced that two new Citrix DaaS solutions are available for purchase in the Google Cloud Marketplace, making it easier than ever for organizations with Citrix VDI solutions to transition to Citrix DaaS on Google Cloud.

    And the timing couldn’t be better.

    “Organizations are rapidly moving to adopt hybrid work, and IT needs a way to get there that’s efficient, cost-effective, secure, and flexible,” said Carisa Stringer, Vice President of Product Marketing, Citrix.

    Simplifying Procurement

    Google Cloud Marketplace makes it easy for companies to quickly purchase and deploy market-leading digital workspace solutions designed to enable secure remote work, including Citrix DaaS solutions purpose-built for Google Cloud:

    • Citrix DaaS Standard for Google Cloud – Designed for organizations or departments that are newer to DaaS or VDI and need an affordable, yet comprehensive hybrid work solution to deliver virtual apps and desktops quickly, easily and securely.
    • Citrix DaaS Premium for Google Cloud – Ideal for organizations with existing VDI investments that need to modernize their deployments, Premium edition provides IT admins with rapid migration and provisioning tools, streamlined management of Google Cloud and/or on-premises resources, advanced security capabilities and exceptional monitoring and cloud optimizations.

    Citrix DaaS spend purchased through Google Cloud Marketplace counts towards a customer’s Google Cloud commitment and is included in their Google Cloud invoice, simplifying the transaction to just one bill.

    Enabling the Future of Work

    Citrix Systems Integrator and Google Cloud partner Wipro is looking forward to using the solutions to help advance the future of work.

    “Wipro is very excited and keen to position the DaaS solution from Citrix and Google Cloud by deploying a true hybrid cloud solution for hybrid work,” said Seshu Venkata, General Manager and Global Head of Wipro VirtuaDesk, Cloud and Infrastructures services.

    Speeding to the Cloud

    In addition to these new offerings and simplified transaction process, Citrix and Google Cloud are continuing to develop tools and resources to make it easier than ever for customers to transition from on-premises VDI deployments to DaaS with Google Cloud, including:

    • Image Portability Service for Google Cloud – Automates the deployment of a master image from an existing on-premises PVS/MCS-provisioned Citrix environment, targeting a Citrix DaaS resource location hosted within Google Cloud to reduce re-work when moving to the cloud, as well as burst-to-cloud capabilities for capacity management, improved disaster recovery and business continuity plans, and streamlined image management.

    “Transitioning to the cloud is a top priority for IT, and it takes a lot of careful planning and considerations,” Stringer said. “Together with Google, we are committed to providing solutions and resources that simplify and speed the process and deliver results.”

    Citrix and Google Cloud have been helping organizations make work more accessible, flexible and secure for more than a decade. Click here to learn more about their partnership and the value they can deliver for your organization.

    About Citrix

    Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) builds the secure, unified digital workspace technology that helps organizations unlock human potential and deliver a consistent workspace experience wherever work needs to get done. With Citrix, users get a seamless work experience and IT has a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.

    For Citrix Investors:

    This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Those statements involve a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks associated with the impact of the global economy and uncertainty in the IT spending environment, revenue growth and recognition of revenue, products and services, their development and distribution, product demand and pipeline, economic and competitive factors, the Company’s key strategic relationships, acquisition and related integration risks as well as other risks detailed in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Citrix assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein. The development, release and timing of any features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion and is subject to change without notice or consultation. The information provided is for informational purposes only and is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions or incorporated into any contract.

    © 2022 Citrix Systems, Inc. Citrix, the Citrix logo, and other marks appearing herein are the property of Citrix Systems, Inc. and may be registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.

  • Citrix Makes Case for VPN Alternative

    Citrix Makes Case for VPN Alternative

    Citrix this week announced it will make its remote access tool that enables users to efficiently access their desktop PCs more widely available via the cloud.

    Gabe Carrejo, senior program manager for Citrix, said Remote PC Access provides a more efficient alternative to the virtual private networks (VPNs) that most organizations currently rely on to enable employees to remotely access their desktops.

    To use Remote PC Access, an IT administrator installs a small client on the remote systems. The client provides access to a range of networking services that Citrix makes available on top of its Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) remoting protocol to create a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) tunnel, which Citrix markets collectively as High-Definition Experience (HDX) Technology.

    To make it easier to access a desktop PC remotely, Remote PC Access installs agent software that IT teams can now push out to an endpoint as long as they have licensed any one of several Citrix services, said Carrejo. In most cases, IT teams will employ a platform such as Microsoft System Center to deploy agent software on an endpoint.

    In the rush to provide employees with remote access almost overnight to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations turned to VPN offerings they were using to provide a small number of employees with remote access. However, with almost every employee trying to access the same VPN, many of those IT teams have encountered network bandwidth issues. What’s more, many of the desktop applications installed in the office are not especially tolerant of the latency a VPN adds to the equation.

    Citrix has long been making the case for ICA as a more efficient protocol for providing remote access to desktops. Now, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company is making it easier for IT teams to distribute HDX agent software across as many remote endpoints an IT organization needs to support. End users can then access applications on their office desktops remotely via any HTML5-compatible browser or virtual desktop software provided by Citrix.

    Carrejo said more organizations are re-evaluating their reliance on VPNs as it becomes clear that what once viewed as business disruption has become the “new normal.” Many organizations are looking closely at how many employees they need to come into an office when their job role may not require it. Remote computing is now a core element of a larger business continuity strategy. As such, Carrejo said many organizations are looking to find a way to provide more efficient remote access to office-based desktop systems while contemplating a possible transition to a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platform deployed in a local data canter or in the cloud.

    It’s too early to say to what degree Windows desktops will be moving to VDI platforms. In the meantime, however, the remote access protocols that IT teams rely on suddenly matter a lot more.

  • Citrix Releases Free Developer Version of NetScaler Load Balancer for Microservices App Developers

    SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Digital business transformation is driving line of business (LOB) to adopt rapid application development and deployment methodologies, such as DevOps. To stay ahead of the competition and adapt to rapidly changing customer and market demands, businesses and governments must automate and continuously adjust key processes. To do so, companies are increasingly developing their own applications to improve internal productivity and enhance customer engagement. Today, Citrix announced NetScaler CPX Express, a free developer version of NetScaler CPX, which is a NetScaler in a container form factor that delivers a battle-tested load balancer for developers to create microservices applications.

    Unlike Free and Open-Source Software (F/OSS) alternatives, NetScaler CPX Express is a full-featured microservices-aware load balancer that gives developers the same enterprise-grade, secure functionality of the market-leading NetScaler platform which is deployed in more than 20,000 enterprise customers and the largest public clouds worldwide. NetScaler CPX Express has the same codebase, REST API, and operations interface as the NetScaler ADC, enabling a seamless transition of application delivery infrastructure from development to deployment cycles. NetScaler CPX Express provides microservices application developers with:

    Application-savvy load balancing capabilities
    Easy, in-service upgrades with no disruption to microservices
    Advanced security capabilities such as SSL offload and protection against network, transport, application-layer DDoS threat vectors and API rate limiting for DDOS attack mitigation
    Service discovery and auto reconfiguration with Google Kubernetes, Docker Swarm and Apache Mesos container management systems
    Real-time visibility, management and analytics through integration with the NetScaler Management and Analytics System
    The ability to get up and running in less than five minutes
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    Brad Casemore, Research Director, Data Center Networks, IDC

    “With the rise of DevOps and microservices, developers increasingly are concerned with reliable application delivery as well as with application development. Unfortunately, at the inception of many projects, developers do not always have access to a full-featured ADC. With the introduction of the NetScaler CPX Express, Citrix is responding to that developer need and helping to accelerate the speed at which microservices-based applications can advance from development to deployment.”

    Anthony Shaw, Head of Innovation, Dimension Data ITaaS

    “Citrix continues to drive innovation forward with the introduction of NetScaler CPX Express. It offers developers and DevOps engineers a free containerized load balancer for layer 4-7 services based on NetScaler, which is ideal for creating microservices or containerized applications. Developers can pave the way for the conversion of monolithic applications into containerized or microservices applications by using the same NetScaler functionality that exists in production in the datacenter for application development and all the way through to production.”

    Ash Chowdappa, Vice President and General Manager, NetScaler, Citrix

    “Citrix is continually innovating to deliver solutions for traditional IT as well as emerging ADC requirements of DevOps and developer communities. With our market-leading NetScaler ADC platform, we are empowering developers to build, test and deploy apps all on a single integrated, scalable and secure platform. NetScaler CPX Express enables developers to drive applications into full-scale production quicker than any other alternative available today.”

    Availability

    NetScaler CPX Express is available for free download today at https://www.microloadbalancer.com

    Related Links

    Blog: Getting to a Multi-Cloud Application Delivery Architecture
    Blog: Citrix + Kubernetes = Home Run
    Blog: Why is Citrix Offering a Free Container-based ADC for Developer
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    NetScaler product page
    NetScaler CPX Express microsite
    Twitter: @Citrix @NetScaler
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    About Citrix

    Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) aims to power a world where people, organizations and things are securely connected and accessible to make the extraordinary possible. Its technology makes the world’s apps and data secure and easy to access, empowering people to work anywhere and at any time. Citrix provides a complete and integrated portfolio of Workspace-as-a-Service, application delivery, virtualization, mobility, network delivery and file sharing solutions that enables IT to ensure critical systems are securely available to users via the cloud or on-premise and across any device or platform. With annual revenue in 2015 of $3.28 billion, Citrix solutions are in use by more than 400,000 organizations and over 100 million users globally. Learn more at www.citrix.com.

    For Citrix Investors

    This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Those statements involve a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks associated with the impact of the global economy and uncertainty in the IT spending environment, revenue growth and recognition of revenue, products and services, their development and distribution, product demand and pipeline, economic and competitive factors, the Company’s key strategic relationships, acquisition and related integration risks as well as other risks detailed in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Citrix assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein. The development, release and timing of any features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion and is subject to change without notice or consultation. The information provided is for informational purposes only and is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions or incorporated into any contract.

    © 2016 Citrix Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Citrix, NetScaler and NetScaler CPX Express are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.

  • Webinar: DevOps in the Modern Enterprise

    Webinar: DevOps in the Modern Enterprise

    We are happy to announce the next devopsy.kinsta.cloud webinar. In partnership with AppDynamics and Citrix :

    DevOps in the Modern Enterprise

    DevOps has been embraced by companies ranging from small e-commerce providers to large fortune 100 institutions. As the rate of adoption continues to grow there is still much confusion about how to successfully transition from “DevOps curious” to full fledged “DevOps practice”. Jim Hirschauer, Technology Evangelist with AppDynamics, will discuss the role of software tools in fostering a successful DevOps practice. Spencer Schwab, Staff DevOps Engineer with Citrix, will share his experience in transitioning his organization into a DevOps centric practice. Spencer will expose the challenges associated with shifting towards DevOps as well as the solutions he discovered while leading and participating in this experience with all of it’s ups and downs. You’ll learn how to initiate change within your organization as well as the associated pitfalls and benefits of the DevOps journey, all based upon the real word experience that Spencer brings from Citrix.  One attendee will win a $100 Amazon gift card.  You must be present to win

    Date: October 30th

    Time: 1pm eastern, 10am pacific

    REGISTRATION LINK: (Limited registration, so don't wait!) 

    About the Speakers:

    spencerSpencer Schwab – Currently, as an Operations Application Owner at Citrix, Spencer leads a Dev/Ops team that is responsible for the availability, run state, capacity, and configuration of the GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, and GoToTraining products in production. Prior to Citrix, he spent eight and a half years working for Fedex where he designed and implemented many high-availability solutions to support the company of over 300,000 employees. He also has served as the Director of Systems Management for Message Factors Inc. and has worked for several small technology firms. Spencer always enjoys a troubleshooting challenge and thrives under pressure. When not working hard, Spencer enjoys spending time with family, cooking, gardening, and riding the waves on his boogie board.

    jimhJim Hirschauer – Technology evangelist for AppDynamics, Jim Hirschauer has an extensive background in highly available, business critical, large enterprise IT operations environments. Jim has been interested in application performance testing and monitoring since his days as a systems administrator in a retail bank. His passion for performance analysis led him down a path to design, implement, and manage the cloud computing monitoring architecture for a top-ten investment bank. During his tenure at the bank, Jim created new processes and procedures that reduced the time spent in the test and QA cycle while simultaneously increasing overall code release quality and dramatically improving end user experience.

     

     

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  • Citrix puts DevOps front and center

    Citrix puts DevOps front and center

    I had the privilege of attending Citrix Synergy 2014 in Anaheim at the beginning of May. Citrix unveiled a variety of new and updated products, but one announcement in particular surprised me a little. Citrix talked about new capabilities for automation with a very DevOps-ish approach.

    During a keynote presentation at Citrix Synergy 2014, Sudhakar Ramakrishna, senior vice president and general manager for the enterprise and service provider division at Citrix talked about automatic provisioning through Xen Desktop, and creating blueprints for deployment. He didn’t overtly call it DevOps during the keynote, but it all seemed very similar to what other DevOps tools and services accomplish.

    I followed up with Citrix, and had a conversation with Steve Shah. Shah told me that DevOps is absolutely front and center in the thought process for Citrix when it comes to developing products and services for its customers, as well as for mapping out its future strategies.

    Shah was at one point a bit of a DevOps naysayer. In an article in 2011, Shah questioned the credibility of DevOps and wondered whether it would survive as an actual thing, or if it was really just a flash-in-the-pan buzzword. Three years later and still gaining momentum, I think we can safely say that Shah’s doom and gloom assessment was off base.

    Citrix understands the need and the value for automating routine aspects of provisioning and managing virtual systems. According to Shah, though, one of the things Citrix has noted about the broader landscape is that there is no clear platform for doing DevOps. There are a wide variety of tools and services with a few leaders, but no clear “winner”.

    Shah told me that Citrix is only one part of a much larger solution, and it respects that it has to play nice with a wide variety of other products and services, or customers will find other solutions. There are too many unique, custom applications out there for Citrix to individually address them all, so Citrix has instead focused on creating open APIs that enable vendors or customers to develop their own methods of integrating with Citrix.

    Another area where Citrix has embraced DevOps—whether it is openly called that or not—is through the use of Blueprints. Citrix determined that there are certain deployment scenarios that are very common for customers across all industries. Rather than having each one of them struggle to develop their own solutions, Citrix designed Blueprints of common scenarios that customers can use as a foundation for their own environments—similar in many respects to the Recipes and Cookbooks used with Chef, a popular DevOps platform.

    My revelations from the Citrix Synergy keynote, and my subsequent conversation with Citrix made two things clear. First, many organizations may be embracing elements of DevOps without even realizing or calling it that. There are things that just make sense when managing a large, rapidly evolving environment that naturally lead to implementing aspects of DevOps. Flipping that point upside down, those same needs are more or less the origin of the DevOps movement.

    Second, DevOps is gaining momentum and becoming more mainstream as time goes on. While many still struggle to define DevOps, it shows up in day-to-day operations, and in the platforms and tools organizations use whether they understand it or not, and whether they call it DevOps or not.