At Summit 2015, Mark Templeton announced the prototype of a mouse named code named “X1”. The mouse is specifically designed for the iOS platform. As many of you probably know, Apple does not support pairing a bluetooth mouse with iOS devices. The X1 mouse bypasses this limitation by…
The significance of the Sanbolic acquisition for existing Citrix customers
If you are reading this, you’ve probably already heard the announcement from Citrix today with regards to the Sanbolic acquistion. I wanted to share my thoughts on how this benefits existing XA/XD customers. When you look at enterprise customers who have invested in XA/XD, 80-90% of these customers leverage PVS for workload provisioning. One of…
Why Every Citrix Administrator running XenApp 6.5 Should Consider Upgrading to XenApp 7.6
In my current role as a Sales Engineer covering some of the largest enterprise accounts, I have been preaching about the XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x architecture and benefits for about 1.5 yrs now. While the 7.x architecture was most definitely a step in the right direction, some of the earlier releases definitely had some gaps…
ShareConnect – Another gem from Citrix to enhance your Mobile Workspace
Yesterday (May 20th, 2014) Citrix released ShareConnect for the iPad, which is another Citrix SaaS offering that allows users to access files and applications on their remote physical PCs. While products like GoToMeeting (Citrix), RemotePC and LogMeIn provided access to remote PC’s, what truly sets ShareConnect in a class of its own is the optimized…
The Future of XenApp and XenDesktop Image Management – A Utopian Viewpoint
Citrix Workspace Services and Microsoft Azure: A new chapter in the Microsoft-Citrix relationship!
At Citrix Synergy this year, Citrix announced what is called the Citrix Workspace Services (CWS), which is a hosted service that can be used for the creation, management and orchestration and monitoring of the end users mobile workspaces which encompasses not just their Desktops (XenDesktop), but also their apps (XenApp) and data (Sharefile). CWS can also…
Desktop as a Service (DaaS) – Is it the Silver Bullet we’ve been waiting for?
With Amazon’s recent announcement of Workspaces offering and VMware’s Horizon DaaS offering, customers have started to inquire about to relevance and reality of such a solution.  As a Sales Engineer, I address these questions from customers on a daily basis. While I believe DaaS is here to stay and might be a perfect fit for some…
My Rebuttal to the latest VMware FUD: Citrix XenDesktop is for “Purely Virtual” use case
I recently got hold of a sales campaign email from VMware which focused around “taking out” existing XenApp customers by upselling them the VMware Horizon suite. The objective was to prevent customers from upgrading to XenDesktop. While I am all for competing with VMware and having a healthy debate on our competing strategies when it…
Synergy Recap Part 2 – XenMobile Announcements
Continuing on the topic on Synergy, changes to the XenMobile product suite was the other big announcement.. Lets take a step back.. Up until the beginning of this 2013, Citrix’s approach to mobililty was Mobile Application Management through their CloudGateway product. The strategy was that enterprises would have the ability to deliver SaaS, Web, Windows…
Synergy 2013 Recap: Part 1- XenDesktop 7
I was fortunate enough to attend Citrix Synergy this year at Anaheim, CA. The event was great as always with around 6500 attendees, 125+ unique sessions, the ever popular Geek Speak Live and Maroon5 who brought the house down. For me though, the highlight was MarkT’s keynote and Brad Peterson’s demos. Noone can tell a…