Citrix :. Companies Powering go the world go 'round

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Citrix products power the systems of some of the biggest tech companies in the world

Did you know that they also many other companies help you do every day to use their work better; such as hospitals, schools and banks? It's true!

virtualization solutions including XenDesktop and XenApp combined with NetScaler, receiver and XenServer that help doctors patients with better access to information to deal with, help teachers with innovative tools to work together to help students learn in new ways and financial institutions secure mobile banking access to its customers.

But not only give our word to help them to take!

MaineTownship School District

offers to the goal of students and faculty with access to its information technology systems from any device, anywhere, anytime, Maine Township High School District 207 used XenDesktop, NetScaler and XenServer and receiver for Chrome. The fact that students and staff remote access to Google Apps for Education Technologies and Windows productivity tools, help the new infrastructure of the school district provide an improved, unified user experience, while reducing downtime and reduce the cost to the user equipment and technical support ,

Our goal is to provide a fast, reliable and secure information technology experience to transform learning, cooperation and innovation teacher. - Henry part, Deputy Superintendent of Technology and Learning, Maine Township High School District 207

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

as one of the top children's hospitals in the country, children's hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) is constantly looking for ways to improve patient care and to make clinicians more effectively. Over the years, this has meant its facilities expansion and growth of its IT infrastructure. In 2013 CHLA updates its Citrix-enabled virtualized environment with new versions of XenApp and XenDesktop, and the addition of NetScaler App Delivery Controller. The results: a fully redundant, fail-safe environment, greatly improved boot and pull through times and a better insight into the performance of

If the environment is not available, people can not access the electronic medical. Record (EMR). And when that happens, the patient care suffers. Therefore, we have built two separate server farms and as a front-end it with redundant NetScalers -. Greg Bush, Director of Technology, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles

Piraeus Bank Egypt

Piraeus Bank Egypt has a workforce of 1,000 and has a broad portfolio of business and investment products. The IT department of the bank requires always-on services to their growing number of branch offices and workers to deliver the required access an ever-increasing number of applications. With XenServer with XenApp, XenDesktop and NetScaler, the bank was able to reduce the cost and energy consumption and realize an impressive 327 percent ROI.

With each new implementation, we always want to achieve high availability, fast response times, integrity and reliability. Our Citrix infrastructure we can achieve this goal. -Hisham Sherif, Deputy Director, Head of IT Department, Piraeus Bank Egypt

These are just some of the many stories we can tell about how real companies are using our products, the lives of their very real customer.

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A summit, Two XenApp & XenDesktop releases (7.7 and 7.8)

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Citrix Summit 2016 is underway in Las Vegas announced this week and for the first time ever, Citrix not only one, but two versions of XenApp and XenDesktop on stage.

now for download on Citrix.com is XenApp 7.7 and XenDesktop 7.7, published on December 29 th , 2015 Today announced at Summit 2016, Citrix also an upcoming 2016 Q1 release of XenApp and XenApp 7.8. A big event - Citrix Summit, two major product announcements -. XenApp and XenDesktop 7.7 and 7.8

This post covers both versions, and shows how the rapid pace of XenApp and XenDesktop release cycles Citrix makes it possible to bring more innovation to our industry-leading application and desktop virtualization solutions , The accelerated pace allows you more app and desktop applications with your existing deployment speed to address the deployment of applications across the enterprise, and simplify IT management of end-user computing.

XenApp and XenDesktop releases 7.7 (now available)

XenApp 7.7 and XenDesktop 7.7 is now available for download on Citrix.com available. This 7.7 release enhances the ongoing relationship and integrated value between Citrix and Microsoft with new cloud deployment and collaboration improvements, increases flexibility FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA) across multiple geographic locations and simplifies application management with the following features:

  • Comprehensive Skype for Business functionality within a virtual desktop app or . As a result of close collaboration between Citrix and Microsoft, this version of RealTime Optimization Pack offers a completely native Skype for Business user experience in a virtual application or desktop, as well as high-quality voice and video.
  • Advanced integration with the latest Microsoft platform. You can now use the fast deployment of virtual desktops in Microsoft Azure Machine Creation Services (MCS) feature of XenApp and XenDesktop. In addition, Citrix Provisioning Services now supports on-premise deployment of Windows 10 virtual desktops.
  • Improved image provisioning technology. simplifies Rapid deployment of desktop or server images patch management, saving memory and protects configurations based image. This release introduced a number of improvements in the Provisioning Services technology with support for NVIDIA GRID GPU performance improvements on vSphere, FIPS compliant communications, in-place upgrades of target device software, support for modern pre-boot environments, extended license period , advanced APIs and more.
  • Simplified management across geographically distributed installations by zones . The new multi-zone management functionality allows you to deploy a XenApp Web site that spans multiple sites or zones thus tightening it to publish multi-site management by allows applications in all zones from a single console.
  • Improved application management and monitoring . now have to manage more flexibility and control your implementations. You can specify the number of resource-intensive applications running on a single server now limit to get scalability and performance. You can proactively notifies error conditions or excessive use making it contain simple questions before they affect the entire application, while new use reporting functions use a detailed insight into the use of resources to provide.

XenApp and XenDesktop Releases 7.8 (Coming in 2016 Q1)

the upcoming availability of XenApp and XenDesktop 7.8 Announcement!

Remember all the features and functionality of 7.7 are installed in 7.8, so that the forthcoming XenApp and XenDesktop 7.8 release the feature-rich version of XenApp and XenDesktop on FlexCast Management Architecture to date. This publication focuses on the improvement of application management and delivery, to increase the optimization of the user experience while the server scalability and flexibility of the architecture robust needs to be located based on vertical and users.

The 7.8 version of XenApp and XenDesktop offers the following advantages:

  • app simplifies the management of applications on a master OS image with AppDisk stratification. New AppDisk technology allows administrators to package and manage applications, regardless of their master OS image alleviating the complexity of managing multiple, departmental-based images. AppDisk makes it easy without installing or updating applications to influence, the golden desktop or server image.
  • Integrated AppDNA compatibility testing for applications with AppDisk coated. AppDNA layering benefits of AppDisk expanded with instant provisioning application compatibility reporting and layer ordering for assigned AppDisks. Now an admin will be able to validate all OS or inter-app compatibility problems and rehabilitate before the AppDisk applications to distribute their employees.
  • Seamlessly Manage Microsoft App-V packages from the Studio Admin Console. XenApp and XenDesktop administrators can now use Citrix studio to the distribution of App-V applications on virtual desktops or XenApp servers without a separate App-V servers and database infrastructure simplifies administrative processes and eliminate the additional infrastructure costs to manage.
  • Improved app publishing experience. Manage Large companies hundreds of applications to thousands of servers. The newly enhanced Studio features an intuitive user interface for the app-publishing and new features that the admin to publish applications across multiple delivery groups improved day management for easier management and tracking on machines, applications and delivery groups allow.
  • Improved graphics performance for virtual desktops. virtual desktop graphics performance optimization is crucial for the acceptance and this version brings even more improvements, including the combination of our innovative Framehawk display technology with our high-performance HDX 3D Pro graphics acceleration for Windows 7 and 8 virtual desktops.
  • Higher scalability for innovative technology Framehawk . Newly published offers Framehawk remote display technology a brilliant experience users under very demanding network conditions and provides interactivity in real time on networks where packet loss affect performance. This version brings improvements in scalability to allow more than 40% reduction in memory requirements, up to 20% increase in CPU efficiency and more than 50% improvement in bandwidth efficiency when using touch input and a significantly higher frame rate for a smoother user scrolling.
  • and more ... just to give you a few of them experience: the ability to virtual desktops sessions with session recording for VDI record troubleshooting to locate and speed; Extensions for Citrix Storefront as self-service password reset; and vertical-specific extensions as published applications by the client name over, which is very important for health care administrators.

This is just one of many XenApp and XenDesktop announcements this week at the Citrix Summit is made. Read more about our new XenApp and XenDesktop maintenance options that help compensate for long-term planning with fast pace product releases. Stay tuned to hear more about what's new in XenApp and XenDesktop for the latest feature Details and Availability Information 7.8!

Look Citrix Summit Keynotes Live From Central Partner

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In a perfect world, all our partners would participate in able Citrix Summit 2016, but we know that the world rarely perfect. If you are not able to be in January in Las Vegas 11-13, you can still get your colleagues practical for first glance for Citrix Go-to-market strategy for the new year to join.

Log on to Citrix Partner Central and observe the General and Tech Talk keynote live from your device, no matter where you are, and for a new season inspire you let your clients with Citrix solutions for safe use and delight data delivery.

You will hear of the Citrix leaders who are the way to partner mapping growth and opportunity, with a renewed focus on Citrix core products, and learn new resources to use the partners lucrative opportunities in solutions and services enable , They will also provide insight into the key market and technology trends obtained which are on the minds of your customers.

Your local colleagues to participate and hear executives from the new interim CEO along with other Citrix, who share their vision for stronger partnerships and greater joint success

mark your calendar now .:

Summit Keynote schedule
day 1 General session: Monday, January 11 | 8:30 PT

Speaker: Bob Calderoni , interim CEO and President; Carlos Sartorius , senior vice president, Worldwide Sales & Services; Tim Minahan , senior vice president and chief marketing officer; and Kimberly Martin , vice president, partner strategy and sales

Day 2 Tech Talks Keynote: Tuesday, January 12 | 8:30 PT

Speaker: Tim Minahan , senior vice president and chief marketing officer; Bill Burley , corporate vice president and general manager operates, workspace services; Abhishek Chauhan , vice president and CTO, Delivery Networks; and Jesse Lipson , Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Services

do not miss a moment of the Summit vision and leadership of senior leaders: Visit Citrix Partner Central for all details.

and the date for Citrix Summit 2017 January 9 to 11, at the Anaheim Convention Center in California.


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Citrix Cloud Workspace: Wider Reach, New Pricing, Updated packages

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Citrix Workspace Cloud provides the easiest, fastest and most flexible way to deliver secure mobile workspaces on the market. Period.

Our platform offers tremendous value for our customers and partners ... and we are about to make it even more attractive.

Since we launched the platform back in October 2015 to life, the reaction has fantastic. Our customers love the elegance of a SaaS-style cloud-based management level and a subscription pricing approach.

In its Citrix Summit Keynote Jesse Lipson presented, as we the platform with updates as Workspace cloud are gone is price, are discounted and sold.

Decreased prices, à la carte storage.

First offered customer feedback on how we can improve our pricing and packaging options. So later in Q1 you see Citrix annual subscription price for our Virtual Apps and Desktops reduce package and a reduced price to our Integrated Apps and Data Suite package.

We are also offer Secure documents are service their application to meet separately from the virtual apps and desktops services easier Customers granular flexibility on how to configure workspaces.

even more appeal to large enterprises. Volume discounting

We also listen to our larger customers that need to be able to implement cost-effective and thousands or even tens-of-thousands of seats management loud and clear. In response, we are going to be different Volume Discounts meet its offer to the needs of these large users

One of the elegant features of Workspace cloud is the ability to manage multiple locations -. Often typical for large companies with a global presence. with its flexible ability in combination on any virtualization platform or cloud, this new discounting further increases for large mobile workstation users.

Where we passed.

responsive to implement

should expect customers more services and subscription packages Add on the platform this year Citrix to see. And do not forget the new and exciting technologies in the workspace Cloud Labs area, where you will see graduate to full services at the beginning of this year, some of these experimental services. Stay tuned for more workspace cloud-based innovation.

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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

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