Citrix

Channel Programs

Citrix reshapes partner program along specialization lines

January 13, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix reshapes partner program along specialization lines
The new Citrix Solution Advisor program is a fundamental restructuring of Citrix’s partnering approach, which introduces Specialist Tracks to recognize and reward areas of focus.

Storage

Citrix acquisition of Sanbolic to make life easier for Citrix partners

January 12, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix acquisition of Sanbolic to make life easier for Citrix partners
The deal is all about increasing simplicity of operations inside of IT, and making it easier to deploy Citrix solutions, for both customers and partners.

Operating Systems

Pure Storage joins OpenStack Foundation, announces two OpenStack solutions

October 30, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage joins OpenStack Foundation, announces two OpenStack solutions
Pure sees OpenStack as providing a great services opportunity to help customers adapt OpenStack for private clouds, since it is necessary to help them adapt OpenStack to different customer circumstances.

Servers

HP adds new cartridges to Moonshot portfolio

October 23, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP adds new cartridges to Moonshot portfolio
New Moonshot apps for application delivery, video transcoding, and a Web infrastructure-in-a-box solution for Web hosters, allow HP to target more custom markets with Moonshot.

Roy Purtill, vice president of cloud computing at Cisco Canada
Cloud

Podcast: Cisco on Intercloud and Citrix on Mobility

October 20, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Podcast: Cisco on Intercloud and Citrix on Mobility
Cisco’s Roy Purtill and Citrix’s Michael Murphy join the podcast to discuss their companies’ latest
moves in the cloud and mobility spaces respectively.

Anthony Ricco, vice president of worldwide demand marketing at Citrix, at Citrix Mobility Toronto.
Mobility

Citrix introduces partners to the software-defined workplace

October 15, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Citrix introduces partners to the software-defined workplace
Taking mobility to a strategic level creates a CEO-level conversation about “business and human outcomes” of IT projects, Citrix exec says at Toronto event.

Cloud

IndependenceIT adds AWS to its Cloud Workspace Suite integrations

September 22, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on IndependenceIT adds AWS to its Cloud Workspace Suite integrations
The AWS integration follows up earlier ones with Azure and Google, to expand IndependenceIT’s reach and partner network.

Virtualization

New Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop releases to take down adoption barriers

August 25, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop releases to take down adoption barriers
The major focus of the new releases is removing significant barriers to adoption, notably greatly reducing storage costs, and adding FIPS certification.

Citrix CEO Mark Templeton
Software

Challenged Citrix sticks with CEO Templeton

July 4, 2014 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off on Challenged Citrix sticks with CEO Templeton
Virtualization software vendor Citrix Systems announced CEO Mark Templeton would not retire as previously announced

Seth Bostock, CEO of IndenpdenceIT
Cloud

IndependenceIT puts DaaS on Google Cloud

June 17, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on IndependenceIT puts DaaS on Google Cloud
Desktop-as-a-Service provider IndependenceIT announces its Cloud Workspace Suite is being integrated with Google Compute Engine infrastructure services.