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eG Innovations offers native monitoring for Citrix in cloud environment in Enterprise 6.3 release

January 8, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on eG Innovations offers native monitoring for Citrix in cloud environment in Enterprise 6.3 release
While eG Innovations has a broad portfolio of offerings, half of their revenues are related to Citrix, so the lion’s share of the enhancements in this release are Citrix-related as well.

Citrix CEO Kirill Tatarinov
Cloud

Citrix eyes unified cloud workspace

May 25, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Citrix eyes unified cloud workspace
Citrix announces Workspace Service, which brings its multi-device application and document access products together under a cloud sign-on.

Citrix Systems CEO Kirill Tatarinov
Security

Citrix shines light on security at Synergy

May 23, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Citrix shines light on security at Synergy
Citrix CEO Kirill Tatarinv urges customers to switch from defense to offense on security, launches new security services practice.

Virtualization

Dell collaborates with Citrix on new XenDesktop VXRail solution

January 18, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell collaborates with Citrix on new XenDesktop VXRail solution
The offering with Citrix provides the same capabilities of the latest version of a VMRail VMware solution announced at last year’s Dell EMC World, and gives Dell partners an offering for their Citrix focused customers.

Cloud

HPE, Atlantis kick off new hyper-converged infrastructure Citrix Ready program

January 9, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE, Atlantis kick off new hyper-converged infrastructure Citrix Ready program
Citrix has announced the Citrix Ready HCI Workspace Appliance Program, with Atlantis and HPE collaborating with Citrix on the first offering in it, the HPE Intelligent Edge Workspace. It is a turnkey virtual workspace appliance with mid-market simplicity and pricing.

Partnerships

Atlantis Computing, Citrix form strategic alliance around hyper-converged

May 26, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Atlantis Computing, Citrix form strategic alliance around hyper-converged
The two companies have been long-time partners around VDI, but this extension of their relationship makes a very low cost hyper-converged offering, which combines Atlantis’ hyper-converged infrastructure with the full Xen stack, available to any certified Citrix partner.

Cloud

Citrix, Microsoft announce major expansion of long-term partnership

May 25, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix, Microsoft announce major expansion of long-term partnership
Key elements include Azure becoming Citrix’s preferred cloud platform, and Microsoft Skype for Business now being optimized for the Citrix VDI environment, the only one to receive this preferred treatment.

Cloud

Citrix rebound mirrors improved performance in Canada

May 25, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix rebound mirrors improved performance in Canada
Citrix’s Canadian country manager Michael Murphy talks about the company’s turnaround, what customers in Canada are looking for, and the new opportunities he sees emerging in Canada for the company and its channel partners.

Cloud

Citrix CEO Tatarinov lays out Citrix vision, and strategy to get there

May 24, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix CEO Tatarinov lays out Citrix vision, and strategy to get there
Citrix CEO Kiril Tatarinov, at his first Citrix Synergy since taking over the company helm earlier this year, outlined to the company’s customers where he plans to take the company.

Servers

Nutanix, Citrix partner on scalable enterprise VDI solution for around $500 (really)

May 24, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix, Citrix partner on scalable enterprise VDI solution for around $500 (really)
Nutanix’s president acknowledged that the industry’s previous announced attempts at a low-cost VDI solution have been basically junk, which have left customers suspicious of such claims. Nutanix InstantON VDI for Citrix, on the other hand, is an enterprise-capable turnkey solution, which really will come in in the $500 price range, including the endpoint.