General Announcements and News Citrix Appoints Kirill Tatarinov as President and CEO Citrix announced that Kirill Tatarinov has been appointed President and CEO, effective January 25, 2016. A veteran Microsoft executive, Mr. Tatarinov will also join the Citrix Board as a director at that time. Citrix Acquires Comtrade’s SCOM Management Packs IP The acquisition of…
Citrix Newsletter – September ’15
General Announcements Citrix Unveils Free Cloud-based Service to Migrate VMware Horizon View Customers to Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop For VMware customers under pressure to improve their app and desktop experience, gain greater infrastructure flexibility and simplify end user computing management, Citrix is introducing a free cloud-based service to migrate VMware Horizon View virtual app and…
Citrix Lifecycle Management: A step by step walk through of an automated deployment on ANY cloud!
Geo Maps for HDX Insight (NS Insight Center 11) – Overview and Configuration
NS Insight Center 11 was released earlier this month, and with this release Geo Maps is now available for HDX Insight. It was earlier available for Web Insight only. For those of you not familiar with HDX Insight, it is a tool from Citrix that provides end to end visibility from an end user experience perspective…
Chromebook + Citrix Receiver For The Win!
The IT landscape has changed a lot the past 5 years. Security is the top concern of most enterprises that I deal with, some being constantly attacked/hacked on a daily basis. IP theft is a major concern with executives and top engineers travelling around the world with highly sensitive data. Up until recently, the options…
Synergy 2015 – A condensed recap of everything you need to know!
For those of you who were not able to attend Citrix Synergy this year & dont have the time to sit through the key note recordings, I decided to put together a condensed version of some of the key announcements. So here goes! Citrix Workspace Cloud Citrix hosted control plane that enables customers to deliver…
Citrix Newsletter – April ’15
General Announcements Citrix Offers Customers the Key to Securing Their Confidential Information Citrix announced it is simplifying the way sensitive documents are shared. Citrix ShareFile customers can now send encrypted emails from Microsoft Outlook to secure the content of messages in compliance with industry regulations such as HIPAA. Since the capability works from within the…
An Introduction To Session Recording (XA/XD 7.6 Feature Pack 1) – Installation, Configuration and User Experience
Introduction On March 31st, Citrix released the much anticipated XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 Feature Pack 1. Among the goodies included, one of the new additions in terms of functionality is Session Recording. For those of you who are new to what session recording is, I recommend this blog by Paul Murray. At a high level,…
Citrix Workspace Cloud – Forget the sausage making process, just eat it!
If you think back how managing a Citrix environment used to be about 10 years ago, a typical Citrix administrator had one product to worry about – Metaframe/Presentation Server. Even with that single product, administrators found it difficult to maintain Citrix environments due to the effort it required. Fast forward to 2015 and now the…