Two guys, Intel and a handful Virtualization Insights

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you have heard, two of "two men and a truck", "Two men and a truck", "College boys move ", and many other variations on this theme, is not it? (These experts artfully pack a truck and drive your goods to a new place. They move the things carefully to you important and efficient and save you money compared to traditional moving companies ...)

apply the concept to the recent Citrix Summit in Las Vegas and you get "Two guys, Intel and a handful virtualization Insights".

The moderator was Johanna Holopainen, Director, Strategic Alliances for Intel. the place was the MGM Grand, and Damien McKinney, virtualization architect at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center of Hartford, Connecticut and Citrix Healthcare Evangelist, Christian Boucher the two boys. They talked about data centers with dense infrastructure package, moved mobile applications and data with virtual technology and driving better business and patient value.

The conversation between the two boys eight Soundbytes produced recalls.

Intel x86 technology and Citrix solutions for health care, expand your world of possibilities.

Intel + Citrix partnership provides networked mobility, the Internet of Things (IoT) virtualization rich applications, networking capabilities, cloud solutions and dense data center infrastructure. What's more, every company healthcare industry professionals who can help design agile IT solutions offers

impact on the economy .: more innovation, provide more and build flexible, industry-friendly IT environment.

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x86-based servers wisely under Intel and you can provide a dense physical infrastructure that supports full virtualization.

in the case of St. Francis Hospital, Damien and his team chose to reduce HP blade servers as virtualization platform around. Christian found that dense virtualization-enabled data center infrastructure by Citrix, Dell, Lenovo, Nutanix, IBM and many other manufacturers is available

impact on the economy .: with well-designed virtualization solutions, you can use the 1-2-3 are physical infrastructure costs and enhance the provision of mobility features.

Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop and NetScaler reduce key to mobile electronic medical records (EMR) delivery.

Damien and his team offer numerous remote services to radiologists and cardiologists Remote. St. Francis Hospital System implements a ratio of about 75% to 25% XenApp XenDesktop. Users access Epic (EMR) and clinical tools on XenApp and NetScaler

impact on the economy .: Citrix solutions for healthcare a comprehensive suite of offer features that provide each device, any network, anywhere access to EMRs, non-EMR clinical tools and business applications. These solutions offer flexible deployment options and implementation options to the specific needs of customers to customize and deploy the applications they want.

Citrix healthcare solutions support more than electronic medical records (EMR) delivery.

While the impetus for Intel x86 technology and Citrix solutions for healthcare can often be the basis for Epic, Cerner, McKesson or other electronic medical record (EMR) applications to serve the reach of Citrix and Intel technology can go far beyond this application. Christian noted that it only resulted in the addition of a small footprint of additional users (and licenses). In the implementations in which was involved, adding other applications such as non-EMR clinical tools and business applications Citrix technology can allow the supply of non-EMR clinical tools and business applications and feature sets such as disaster recovery, legacy device updates and mergers and acquisitions easier solutions

impact to the already implemented IT architecture to realize the economic .: Capitalize functional and financial economics of scale.

XenApp Automated Provisioning reduces downtime considerably.

Damien found that epic updates released every four to six weeks. Thanks to remote provisioning capabilities in XenApp, his team has clearly Reduce downtimes required to process these changes - to 12 minutes! Christian added to the conversation, to emphasize the fact that to be able to patch and update in a small window, means little to no effect user quit. (He also noted that many Citrix not even recognize Platinum customers, the good news: provision of services in purchasing the Platinum product)

impact on the economy: Minimize downtime saves lives, reduces costs and increases the reviews patient and employee satisfaction.

A dense highly virtualized environment affects many maintenance easier.

Every inch of space in the data center has a corresponding monetary value. Read: data center space is expensive. Virtual technology significantly-reduced the amount of physical hardware and data center footprint required

impact on the economy .: More virtual machines (VMs) per physical Server chassis translated into reduced heating, cooling, network cabling and real estate costs.

often experienced IT leaders on mergers and acquisitions very far in advance of the public.

For this reason, it is of crucial technology solutions to implement, which allow you instant access to new users to give or make changes on the fly.

business impact: The automated provisioning capabilities in Citrix support solutions for the healthcare IT managers to quickly change and update access to services , This saves time and money and increases user satisfaction.

have staged in mergers and acquisitions (M & A), the process of implementing consolidation easier.

The ultimate goal of making in a M & A healthcare environment is usually centralization of services. Three acquired hospitals to different environments than the two existing combined in a hospital system, for example. Both panelists encouraged for common ground and building those advocating the viewers. They suggested also the implementation process stage to deliver perhaps first EMR access, and non-EMR clinical tools and business applications from three to six months later

impact on the economy .: Agile virtualization technology allows you constantly quick to be changing needs. This leads to lower costs and higher user satisfaction.

For more information ...
Citrix solutions for healthcare, click here and here.
Intel Health and Life Sciences, click here.
Citrix Summit 2016 in Las Vegas, click here.
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, click here.

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Citrix XenMobile & CVE-2016-0728: Am I

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Citrix XenMobile & CVE-2016-0728: Am I - affected by this zero-day vulnerability

If you reports on the latest zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-0728) have read that allows Android or Linux applications to extend rights and get root access to the device have concerns about its impact on your XenMobile use. However, we would like Citrix customers want to assure that although XenMobile server running on a Linux platform , it does not contain the vulnerable code.

For Android, Google has released a security blog describing the vulnerability as a limited number of Android-version 4.4-based devices to influence. Google has already released a patch for this problem, which should be available from equipment manufacturers shortly.

Although may be customers XenMobile use, support a small subset of the affected Android 4.4-based devices in its user base, which reduces XenMobile MDX Container and Secure / Shared Vault of this vulnerability on customer risks Data-at- radical having additional encryption made over and over each encryption by the device.

Find out why industry analysts give XenMobile the highest score for safety with the XenMobile Security Whitepaper

Patients value resuscitating with Citrix Diagnostic: Meaningful Use Unhealthy

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Industry Update as of May 2016:

Add the past, measured Medicare the value and quality of doctors and physicians care through a variety of programs and mechanisms such as Accountable care organizations report that comprehensive primary care initiative, the Medicare Shared savings program, the Physician quality Reporting system, the value modifier program, and the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive program. Congress rationalizes this then in a single framework clinicians help transition from payments based on the volume of payments based on the value. A new rule now will implement these changes through a single framework, the quality payment program. Read more here.

I think the HITECH Act and meaningful use give us expediency at the expense of innovation, but the urgent need to build electronic health record where (EMR) infrastructure, they are a necessary Evil.

that is, driving the focus on the introduction of new technologies EMRs commoditized through faster implementations, rather than rewarding product innovation and financial incentives for better quality of care.

EMRs healthcare providers access secure anytime anywhere Enabling Citrix has an important role in their compliance with Meaningful Use and HITECH requirements.

, for example, 88% Epic played users use in the US Citrix solutions to their EMRs access . According to what I get in the industry in 2016 by a January conference on Medicare access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and new developments learned the future of meaningful use in its current form is questionable. The value of Citrix in delivering a high level of patient value in health care brings units, but remains consistent This is the backstory .:

When JPMorgan Chase Healthcare Conference in early January, Andy Slavitt, the acting administrator of CMS, provided a grim outlook for the wise use and said that the program would 2016 Healthcare CIOs will be replaced in the year cheered by the nation, but were skeptical, what's next , Slavitt remarked: "The Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) calls with its emphasis on a new merit-based incentive payment system and alternative payment models, a new streamlined regulatory approach

[ But Karen Desalvo, national coordinator for HIT, warned that changes take time and wise use is still the law of the land. At the same time, 31 of the largest US health care systems, including the partners Health, Geisinger, Henry Ford and Inter Health called for the end of the meaningful use-claimed that it had reached its goal of 80% acceptance of EMR by hospitals and doctors. They argued that it is time to move from focusing on technology to improve care.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has promised willing to have the new rules for this spring inspection, but there is no indication it will capitulate and end soon meaningful use anytime.

place in the sector Regardless of the outcome, to the relocation of the introduction of new technologies will improve care at the top nor Citrix. Citrix will continue to work with its healthcare customers to extend the same level of security and accessibility to other applications, including remote maintenance, tele-medicine, coordinating patient engagement, PACs image viewing and maintenance.

With this new focus on the clinical results, the provider of high patient care will drive innovation in the hospital to incentivized, clinic and at home several tools, including technology. By efficiency in the health allows processes through technology, Citrix will continue to allow doctors and healthcare professionals to spend more time on the important core competence delivering superior care.

MACRA looks like a winning combination of merit -based compensation incentives and less supervision of CMS. Providers will be strengthened and compensated for innovation and to deliver improved patient care. So Citrix will continue to be a valuable partner with their healthcare customers as they move to a value-based model.

For more information about how Citrix provides secure mobility in healthcare, click here., Or on Citrix security and compliance technology, click here

and be sure to add us on Twitter to consequences. Follow @citrixhealth

* If you are in the healthcare industry, we invite you to start a dialogue with us. You can by clicking here to share your thoughts on the subject in this blog or any other health IT problem with a Citrix researchers.

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European Financial Services Firm Drives Secure Digital Workspaces Plus Business Agility with Citrix Workspace Suite and HPE Moonshot

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"now people expect the freedom to choose their work location, device, and network" shares Olaf Romer, declare CIO of the Baloise Group, why the company is developing a strategy based on digital workplace agility and enterprise security.

Baloise Group likes to use insight about their users and Citrix technology to drive a digital workplace strategy that enables people to complete work from anywhere-local customers, their home, office or at any other place.

a specialized financial service providers, the Baloise Group is a European provider of insurance and pension solutions with 70 employees spread among its headquarters offices in Basel, Switzerland, as well as locations in Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. The IT organization needs to design a mobility strategy on agility-for and the business centers, such as for employees.

management objectives focused on aligning employee technology experience with business productivity and security requirements. With Citrix Workspace Suite was to bring Baloise Group is able technology with its objectives in line, which resulted in an innovative mobility strategy.

Balancing employee mobility and enterprise security

, employees can choose where they can access secure applications and data, which device they use and what type of network is in its current location available. Employees can work productively from any location at any time using any device.

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With Citrix Workspace Suite, Baloise Group allows employees of a work on a laptop home office, on a tray at the airport or in any Place. Whether responding to a customer request or insurance to develop banking services from handling or a big project with a business partner, the Baloise Group employees have the flexibility, superior customer experience to offer in their business.

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A Digital Workspace strategy with security, scalability and performance

Baloise Group had to surpass mobility goals both overall business employee experience and strengthening. With Citrix Workspace Suite and HPE Moonshot platform, the Baloise Group to grow the agility, shrink to combine and business units in real time according to market dynamics.

adapt CTO Markus Mark Steiner explains:

The biggest challenge for us was an infrastructure to create, support teleworking and allows us a to use wide range of mobile devices. With Citrix Workspace Suite and the Moonshot technology of HP Enterprise we realized a scalable infrastructure with great performance. With this new architecture, we meet all of our objectives in terms of security, compliance and carbon footprint. Our staff will be able to work productively from anywhere, anytime, with any device and our systems are agile and scalable for business growth.

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The new architecture and mobile workplace approach, Baloise was able to meet its business objectives in terms of security, compliance and carbon footprint

Watch the video :. Baloise Group Citrix Workspace Suite uses real flexibility for employees [1945005zurVerfügungzustellen]

Open a support ticket and improve Citrix Workspace cloud

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One of the best things about a cloud-based product is the ability to continuously roll out updates to users.

Citrix Workspace cloud is no exception with regular updates approximate published every three weeks

. Note: to up-to-date remain with the new is here or directly from the workspace cloud administration console and every few weeks is updated.

we support the majority of updates on the feedback / ideas we get from users and the trends that we see are created in the support tickets.

When feedback to send and when a support ticket to open

If you, ideas / feedback for Workspace cloud related to usability, functionality, general harassment, Workflow etc. Then take a look please at my other blog posts- "on top of Stay What's new in Workspace cloud" and for the direction "as the new Citrix to use Workspace cloud feedback widget" as your thoughts to Share with the workspace cloud product team and a community of other users.

If you have a problem with Citrix Workspace cloud, then you need to raise a support ticket to get some help. Continue reading for directions to open a support ticket

How to open a workspace Cloud Support Ticket

Step 1 :. Browse "to open a ticket," the open support widget. . Note: Before please see the Knowledgebase article on support.citrix.com if there is a solution to your problem is already raise a ticket check

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step 2 : in support ticket widget you can raise all support questions you have. Enter the description of your problem and select Send

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Step 3 :. Once you hit send, a request with the Citrix support team will be opened. The reference number is displayed, and there is a link to the support team contact information if you want to pursue with the support in these matters further

. Note: If you need urgent attention to your support issue to the Support to track directly on the application

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Step 4 :. to check the status of your ticket order, you can move the details of the ticket from the notification area in the administration console. Simply select the see "View Detail 'button under the Alerts display all notifications -. Open the details of the support case (s), can be found here as your cases advanced, you will be updated directly via email

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we are pleased to address the problems and learning to build for you an even better product, the

would again we also like your ideas to hear for Workspace cloud.

New Ways Security at the RSA 2016 Simplify

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The simplification of security has our thinking about Citrix NetScaler long central importance.

We see the need for. it everywhere, even in my situation Mine at home , it is not that I do not like Minecraft; Who does not want digital Legos to play with magical properties? But it's another story when hoodlum friends of my son * want to join it who-knows-where-have-been Laptops my network. That's when I really need a way to my network easy to keep clean and safe.

Solve my mine problem on the fundamentals meant back. I segmented the network, removes all L2 paths between subnets and creates a simple routing policy, which my actual home network invisible to the game network. Then I prevent some Ethernet-level policies devices, accidentally join the dirty network and make some ACLs router invisible as termination point for each type of package. Everything is good.

As we are the network security needs of your organization?

It is no different than my mine to solve example, really.

after 2016 CyberThreat Defense Report, you have got to overcome three major obstacles. a lack of field staff to analyze a lot of data and have "We used to low security awareness of employees

NetScaler WAF for over 2 years. So far we have the NetScaler AppFW used to our web applications to protect. NetScaler Security insight we expect to correlate all the information about the attacks to a single dashboard to win the attackers and their targets better insight into the malicious traffic that meets our web portals. in addition, by from very different Regions of attack distribution we have the ability to "surgically" manage geo-location-based policies on a particular virtual server on the NetScaler, generating ad hoc reports on demand and without using third-party products mapping: in our defense-in-depth model, this is a strategic capability in simple terms, NetScaler security Insight help us answer some critical questions such as:. Where the weaknesses in our security situation? How many attacks are mitigated by NetScaler? What is the severity, frequency of these attacks. What attacks the blacklisted " - Stefano Plantemoli, IT network and security manager, Italian Ministry of the Interior

At RSA, we show three new ways NetScaler helps it to . get done, simple and clean

IP reputation Built-In is - the whole idea of ​​a separate service IP call which never requires annual renewals sat well with us This is a. having more thing, if you are already thinly stretched on the top, a handle more sellers to stay reputation in the field. it's the kind of feature that should be built in really, so we did it. is IP reputation now free, with our WAF offer No service contract

Security Insight -.. As the complexity of the integration of companies is growing, the number of ways of doing things may take among all the ins and outs go wrong. And they can all review mean an overwhelming amount of data to analyze. How do you make infrastructure as easy to secure and as accurate as possible? By having a platform, the problems pointed out, you-instead, sort through endless log files looking for needles in the biggest haystack in the world

NetScaler security Insight does this in three ways: ,

  1. identification of configuration patterns and shows inconsistencies that weaken your security posture
  2. parsing mountain search your NetScaler-logs for problems that can be for real context sensitive dangerous ongoing coverage of Anomaly Detection
  3. to make problems with PCI compliance Recalling the audit process that have much easier by the work

Since it new and better ways to make your to protect the network. Because when it comes to safety, we simple, clean and very effective to keep things. See you at the RSA 2016! Can not make it? You can learn more about NetScaler security solutions (although we Minecraft to play no tips can promise) more here.

* To be fair, they are all great kids. I am glad they are my son's friends. But never mind me cringe harder than "Papa, you can add my friend to Wifi?" I call his friends crooks to only irritate my son ... you know, Dad Humor.

As networks reinvented their business as Citrix Service Provider SMBs

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After 20 years on the grounds provide implementations and building custom clouds, Networks GmbH changed his game - in a remarkably short time. a Citrix Service Provider After he launched network plans a comprehensive hosted for small services and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Germany in just six months.

believe Customers cloud hosting is an ideal way of technical expertise, safety and reliability without major investment in infrastructure.

differentiation to obtain flexibility

to set the company apart from its major competitors with standard, fixed rates, created a network plans flexible, modular and easily customized solution. It is built on Citrix technologies, such as virtualization, file sharing, and orchestration and management software.

Our business use case of customer understanding and providing a solution, they can only load will not work with-- Daniel Schweikle , technical director for NPCloud

an illustration of how networks are just customers. what they need:

networks were a medicine manufacturer is running his own business app XenApp server, and Shared Services including Active Directory, Exchange Database Availability Group (DAG), DFS cluster for files, security, storage and backup. Internally, the customer had only to install and replace older PCs with thin clients a small NAS system for local files and a firewall for basic security.

Because these customers sold worldwide to hospitals and clinics, mobility was very important. Citrix Receiver client software employees access to the hosted environment from any device at any location.

, the medical technology company now has [1945002erlaubt] best of all worlds:

  • The Freedom to self-manage critical specialty apps
  • The economics of Shared Services
  • The convenience admin leave, monitoring and updates to networks of professionals

Both new and existing customers are networks' attracted hosted services.

"have heard about cloud These companies, from large vendors such as Microsoft, hosting," CEO Sascha Collin said. "Customers believe cloud hosting is an ideal way to get technical expertise, safety and reliability, without major investment in infrastructure." Manage

optimize the provision of public services

networks chose Citrix technologies and the customer workloads delivery process services.

We believe that the best way to managed services to deliver, based on a custom package solution comes with friendly products such app to work orchestration and cloud portal services manager - Daniel Schweikle

Their range includes:

  1. NPCloud pro, a fully managed cloud package including applications, domain and file services, data backup and security
  2. driven
  3. NPBox file-sharing services Share File
  4. DaaS in several flavors
  5. Hosted Microsoft Exchange

Looking to the future

Although the company's solutions are suitable for any SMB, is the CEO in a vertical approach by Hart provides Datev, a popular financial software package, as a service .

"Many customers Datev running on a Small Business Server without redundancy and failover. Instead of investing in more infrastructure, they are interested in cooperation with a strong partner, the major Datev package into a small, hosted service simplify "Collin said.

Interested beginning on or to enrich a managed service business model? Learn more about the benefits of becoming a Citrix Service Provider.

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