The Ultimate Synergy 2016 Networking list -

This year's Citrix Synergy conference is unlike any before!

What makes it so different?

, our new CEO, Kirill Tatarinov will share his unique vision for the digital transformation. This is your opportunity to hear directly from Kirill and experience our renewed focus on our core products and our customers. This event is our vision light and direction for our product design set

Synergy this year is on Citrix initiative focused on our networking solutions with two big events to redouble .: the first annual NetScaler Connect and the unveiling of the new SD-WAN solution.

NetScaler Connect will be the event that cemented Citrix position as networking companies and provides a leading NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC).

at a time when SD-WAN is one of the top trending topics in the IT industry, Citrix delivers what we used to be the fastest and most reliable solution on the market, expect.

What participation in Synergy will NetScaler Connect & SD WAN events for you?

This is your chance to hear from our experienced product team and your colleagues, as well as fellow networking practitioners. Did I mention that there will be food and drinks and giveaways?

While about half of you Synergy have visited before and know what a great event it is, we expect it to be much better this year, when. In networking We have everything you need, have learned to find the right events and meetings at Synergy know.

Synergy networking Focus Sessions

• Over 25 NetScaler / Cloudbridge learning units. Notable topics include:
  • NetScaler security features in depth
  • Consolidate ADCs with the power of NetScaler SDX
  • Cloudbridge SD-WAN: What's new and what's next
  • NetScaler Pro: Make your web applications faster and much safer
  • Workspace Delivery over the WAN, a software-defined
  • security: the perpetual balance between users and hackers
  • Five features that NetScaler apart from the competition
  • Simplified application access with NetScaler Unified Gateway
  • NetScaler reliability and ease of use for all Microsoft applications

This is the link to all networking Connect Sessions at Synergy.

• Hands-On networking Learning Labs cover HDX Insight & SD WAN
• Opportunities and interact with Citrix Master, industry analysts and thought leaders. Notable options are:
  • Geek Speak with Brian Madden
  • Meet the Experts Theatre - Citrix Pro Tips from the largest and most successful customer
  • Dan Kaminsky (Security Thought Leader), the innovative safety
  • Interactive Birds of a Feather panels
  • best practices discuss how our Champions use our solutions
  • Vertical concentrated in health, education, finance and administration.

If you have missed a session, many of ... can be viewed on any device through SynergyTV everywhere!

Live Sessions can be found HERE.

There are 16 Networking specific breakout sessions available to watch

SYN130. SDN, SD WAN, NFV: differentiate hype from reality Schedule
24.05 Di develop 1: 30-2: 30 pm GMT

SYN101: Citrix CTO perspective on the next era of technology
Di 5/4 24: 00-5: 30 pm

SYN245: customers in-depth case study: consolidation ADCs with the power of NetScaler SDX
25.05 Wed 11: 15-12 pm

SYN145: Security: the never-ending balancing act between users and hackers
[1945005[ Wed 25.05 02:01

SYN237: Five functions that NetScaler apart from the competition
Mi 25.05 3: 30-4: 15 o'clock

SYN231: workspace delivery over a software-defined WAN
Do 3 26.05: 30-4 :. 15:00 GMT

more information, see the Synergy Home and Registration Fees page

What's on deck for Synergy 2016? Learning Labs x 3! -

Our team of tech specialists, once again, for some of the Synergy Learning Labs hosting. Right here, I have everything you need to know about the 3 laboratories, we are planning (but were afraid to ask).

Are you ready? Let's go

I am presenting updated and our third laboratory: SYN621 - Accelerate the NetScaler capabilities . This laboratory includes several quick exercises for functions and can be controlled in the Web interface or from the command line. We also allow students through the Labor leader to navigate and "choose your own adventure" through the region of interest and skipping begin any exercise Pre-requirements are needed.

If you focus on the essentials and add with NetScaler as Secure Reverse Proxy, Rewrite and content switching, go with an HA pair, then convert it into a 2-node cluster, a GSLB Test up and to seek to NS11.0.65.31 upgrade to the SSL standard profile, this lab is for you. Basic familiarity ADC is for this class of advantage, but not required, and the student will quickly see how "it" is made on the NetScaler. I have scheduled three meetings, and I hope to see you there

Join us to simply Serve @ Synergy (and a big thank you to our sponsors!) -

to take Facing a break from your hectic schedule Synergy? We have the answer! Spend a few minutes to help children at risk. It is good for the body and soul!

join partners and colleagues in a variety of on-site volunteers to support activities with the United Way of Southern Nevada STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education for at- risk youth. Network with your peers in a fun and meaningful way, while making a difference in the lives of children in need.

build by robots, to build Arduino kits mounting on bridges, high school students mentoring, there are a variety of volunteer activities to choose your interests and schedule to meet.

Join us in the simply Serve @ Synergy voluntary area, level 1 alcove. Earn 250 points per game Synergy activity . Check out more details here

• Tuesday, May 24th from 16.00 -. 18:00 . Build robots and compete with the High School
  students. SYN010
• Wednesday, May 25 13:00 to 15:00 . build bridges and beams with middle school students. SYN030
• Wednesday, May 25 4:00 to 5:30 . Speed ​​Mentor graduates. SYN020
• Thursday, May 26 13:00 to 15:00 . compile the work with elementary school students and Arduino kits. SYN040

A big shout-out and special thanks to these amazing companies that have stepped up in a big way to support these important programs.

[1945003Schaukel], the Corporate Citizenship booth in Synergy Park - SANDS Expo, Level 2 | Sands Hall B - and meet the team to see what makes Citrix STEM education programs for vulnerable young people in our communities to support. Earn 70 Synergy Playpoints of STEM kits for children in low-income schools Las Vegas assembly.

Gamble for Good on our slot machines and win prizes for themselves, while helping us grant wishes to three local schools under.

you have questions or need more information? Email corporatecitizenship@citrix.com.

serve to give Thanks for your Simply spirit and willingness. here to learn more about our efforts corporate citizenship and help us change the world!

Connected at Synergy Get - NetScaler Connected -

We have the finishing touches on the next week Citrix Synergy in Las Vegas, and I'm particularly looking forward to the debut of NetScaler Connect; networking focused event within Synergy!

we will have with guest speakers from IDC and Cisco two super sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday. We also have a meeting with Dan Kaminsky, chief scientist of White Ops.

This will be my first Synergy, and I will be joined by several members of the Citrix NetScaler team exciting new insights to deliver and delivered Vision for NetScaler in the new Software Defined era.

If you are Synergy attending the session will review the catalog, select "NetScaler Connect" "Session Type" networking all the content in the Preview. I will jointly present two sessions; SYN227: Product Update: What's with NetScaler New and SYN113: Cost virtual app and desktop delivery over any network. We have many of the latest features and platforms will be presented, which are for NetScaler in the game, and highlighting the current value of NetScaler and SD WAN for Citrix Workspace.

I am excited, and you should be too! See you in Las Vegas!

Discover password Free EMM Intercede & Citrix -

At Synergy 2016 and Citrix Intercede integration of Intercede MyID of the next generation of US-derived credential management is solution demonstrate with XenMobile, the most comprehensive enterprise mobility management solution. MyID enables companies derived PIV credentials on mobile devices effectively cost-effective and easy to implement.

integrating MyID and XenMobile is ideal for organizations that prefer a password-free experience for its user, in addition to a stronger authentication as compared to a mobile password. The integrated solution is particularly useful for employees, typically use a smart card to authenticate the corporate network, such as the use of a corporate AD user name or password over.

Currently, the two companies are delivering the integration between Intercede MyID and WorxMail. MyID sets digital credentials in the form of keys and certificates, the Citrix common vault. This joint custodian may allow users of WorxMail sign accessible, encrypt and decrypt company emails from their mobile device.

At Synergy, Intercede and Citrix will show how the development of an integrated secondary credential solution beyond can be extended secure email, by a simple, but highly secure workflow showing .:

step 1 - employee their PIV smart card and PIN in a derived credential Kiosk occurs by the company

step 2 - the kiosk prompts the user to Citrix Worx Home on their mobile to start the device and shows the XenMobile server address and QR-code

step 3 . - The employee scans the QR code with the MyID identity agents. MyID provides a secure connection to the Smartphone and uses this information back and forth to pass in a safe manner. , Keys and certificates are then provisioned to the device in a secure vault accessible XenMobile

Step 4 - The employee starts Worx Home, a Worx Start PIN generated enters the PIN. The deduced the applicant's credentials are now registered in MyID

Step 5 -. Well, if the employees use them instead of a password, to authenticate its PIN and derived credential, effectively protected all the XenMobile backup apps on the device.

Integrated derived credential is planned mobile solution from Intercede and Citrix for release in the near future.

If your business requires a strong 2-factor authentication for mobile users, to stop by the XenMobile stand out more.

Citrix Lifecycle Management, XenApp and XenDesktop: Better Together -

Today we announce two new Citrix Lifecycle Management Services existing XenApp and XenDesktop environments improve. Update and Smart Scale

last fall, Citrix Lifecycle Management the concept of Citrix Certified introduce plans that customers in any cloud environment new deployments of its Citrix software to enable fast and efficient work - public or private. We will now enhance the functionality of XenApp or XenDesktop environment, extends independent of Citrix lifecycle management, whether it was created with an Lifecycle Management Blueprint or not.

The first service, called simply the update service allows customers to maintain, easier to secure and highly XenApp environments. Customers can keep the process greatly simplify their XenApp environment up-to-date by their environments to register with the update service and recommended it, and apply using suitable software updates.

The second service, Smart Scale-called, reduces infrastructure costs for customers XenApp environments operate on public clouds, as it automatically infrastructure up and down based real-time usage statistics.

Update Service enhances security and increases availability of XenApp scaled

Update easily discover service forward business to driving customer and apply to the latest software updates, or upgrade to new versions of software helps effortlessly and concentrate.

Update Service helps Citrix customers save significantly on operating costs, as it presents easily specific recommendations for updates environments. The service takes into account environmental aspects including deployment architectures and current versions of the components. Customers can also check compliance with environmental XenApp Long Term Service Release (LTSR) and quickly remediate any identified discrepancies.

Easy onboarding, Flexible Control & end-to-end automation

XenApp environments, existing or new, provided on the premises on a hypervisor or in a public cloud, may in a few easy steps within minutes be on boarded.

the update service provides end-to-end automation of the update and upgrade XenApp environments, while a flexible configuration for the admin has to manage the process. The service also offers a safety net by the environment snapshot before an update to perform. This feature allows XenApp administrators can make quickly and easily reversed to a work environment in the event of a failed update. In addition to these new features is the previously available Migration Service to simplify the upgrade to new versions of XenApp (eg XenApp 6.x to XenApp Migration 7.8). The Migration Service now supports migration of Citrix VDI-in-a-Box (VIAB) on a full XenDesktop environment. This additional functionality provides a way for customers of VIAB solution for a fully functioning XenDesktop deployment to move.

Smart Scale delivers predictable cost control for XenApp environments to public clouds

deploy While the benefits of public clouds are well articulated, can its infrastructure costs involved, if not properly managed. The new SmartScale service optimizes XenApp costs by scaling up and deboost resources of the infrastructure on the actual use map. For example, the Smart Scale Service automatically scale the infrastructure at 9am high usage during peak hours and reduced infrastructure at 6am support to meet the low use.

Depending on the XenApp user types, a $ 100K / year estimated. can for 1000 users.

specifically for XenApp

Today, public cloud providers provide general monitoring and automatic scaling tools stored infrastructure to optimize consumption. To use these tools, customers have to cobble them together. The benefit of this ad hoc tools is severely limited by the lack of sophistication needed to manage XenApp.

Smart Scale service is specifically for XenApp with real-time monitoring of key performance indicators such as capacity utilization, the active sessions, the session login, runtimes and much more. A simple configuration tool allows Citrix administrators to easily optimize cost between usability and infrastructure.

Quotations

"Citrix Lifecycle Management is an important part of the Citrix" Better Together "value proposition. Citrix Certified are plans already hundreds of customers have been used to accelerate their implementations of XenApp, NetScaler and XenMobile. Now, we extend Citrix Lifecycle management to improve the many thousands of XenApp and XenDesktop environments, which are run by customers today. the new update and Smart Scale services for XenApp represent only the first of many exciting services that are built on our unique and powerful lifecycle management platform " -. Steve Wilson - VP, Core Infrastructure - Citrix

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Intelligent security -

In today's "new normal" world of information security to keep yesterday approaches, the bad guys have been made effectively useless. Simply put, It is my opinion that it is no longer possible to protect your personal information or your company's intellectual property by a reactive strategy is maintained.

multiply as traditional volumes decrease in size, but with each new mobile device or IoT connected endpoint, the aggregated threat vector increases, whereby traditional methods completely ineffective.

It's time to tear up the playbook and rethink how to move with proactive attitude - one that should be regarded as an imperative, not a nice-to-have

was in the heart of many of the best examples of modern, effective security postures that I have seen. the concept of using intelligence to assist the desired results of each of the key cornerstones go, Deter, Detect, Respond, Remediate. as in the physical world, we search for law enforcement and government agencies use intelligence to protect them from harm, we must embrace the same philosophies in the virtual world - we are the cyber war in a relentless state and we must prepare for the ongoing battle to out-think and out-smarting the enemy.

prevention is a pound of cure. - Benjamin Frankin

With respect to the role that intelligence plays in the new normal, I think it as a combination of Human & Artificial -. each with a key role and each as important as the others to play in the successful implementation of a progressive, adaptive security situation

Human Intelligence - this is a frequently neglected, yet critical part of line of defense. It is a game of hearts and minds, and each organization has its employees, contractors and partners see as an extension of their firewall. For human intelligence element to be effective, companies must commit deliberately the boundaries between personal (home) and corporate (in-office) blur safety - design scenarios and exercises that social engineering or phishing attacks and the use of these results imitate consistently to address gaps in how those employees, contractors and partners behave and handle suspicious scenarios.

targeted use The rapid growth in ransomware where attackers seek social engineering techniques to "lock" files with their own encryption and unencrypt to provide sum of keys available strong demand, on the front of newspapers called the world and is another example of why it is important to educate, educate, educate.

Artificial Intelligence - this is a new paradigm, and perhaps the best weapon, any organization could have in today's rapidly changing threat landscape. Collecting, analyzing and acting on the system and log information is of fundamental importance to the "Hand-to-hand combat" approach, which is to keep the bad actors in check required. Attackers use more traditional methods to break through firewalls; they are much more sophisticated and advanced persistent threat tactics - which may include dormant leave for months at a time, Remote Access Trojans - so it is important to have an "East-West" Add view to the existing "North-to accompany the South" view so that lateral movement of data and network activity can also be measured and evaluated.

key uses an artificial intelligence approach that is able to derive anomalies from the vast amounts of information that are recorded in log management solutions and security information and event management (SIEM) systems. The use of readily available machine learning techniques can anomaly detection algorithms help an organization provide, provide "X-ray vision" in activities on their corporate networks and an advantage over the attacker.

As CTO, it is a question, which arises from the customers and over again.

"What advice would you give us about where we spend our time, effort and money should prevent or quickly identify and remediate threats"

is My answer always the same, regardless of the customer or the industry: "the fact that many organizations go months"

. Indicators of compromise "- that is the rethinking you must quickly identify" indicators of attack "and you have to act like you have been injured before they realize that they have been compromised means that there are enough tools do not exist Adopted. , you are just now at risk today and then think about how it architect segmentation on access, network, application and data level. you also need more visibility to determine a basis for which activity is valid, ie. bandwidth usage, the users connect, typically communicate from where, the networks at what times and what the normal traffic, so that abnormal traffic can be use out "x-ray" vision. for example, an opportunity to see the attacks on Web applications to win with NetScaler Security Insight, using the application firewall feature to better identify and prioritize attacks for more effective triage. Security Insight analyzes the NetScaler configuration and highlight inconsistencies that weaken the security situation. "

At Citrix, we're fanatical about security and are eager to help a portfolio of solutions-across the entire enterprise to provide that our customers address their security and compliance requirements and maintain their data secure in transit, in use and at-rest.