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

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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.

you are looking for a custom hosting solution? Find a Citrix Service Provider today


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Citrix Adds Cisco Hyperflex HCI as a safe App and data delivery infrastructure option

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Today announced their entry into the Cisco hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) space with a new product called Cisco HyperFlex systems ,

Since the HCI space continues to mature, we have to find more and more customers move to the compelling "all-in-one" solution for desktop and app delivery needs.

As the recognized leader in the safe use and provision of data, Citrix provides tremendous value with Cisco partnered in the customer to help make their goals, secure, high performance access to their end-user desktops, applications and to realize data.

solutions such as to eliminate those involved with the provision of the infrastructure, virtual applications and desktops conjecture much, it's easier and faster to configure and make manage. Citrix distinguished and at the top is through customer and partner of choice of the infrastructure for safe use delivery. and is-always be to implement this commitment enable companies to XenApp and XenDesktop on top of the infrastructure is a core-value and Citrix enables us Cisco Hyperflex as an option with a fast time to market.

to offer it is a SDx world ...

Cisco has taken by introducing the next generation of HCI on the occasion that their fame high-performance computing and networking includes capabilities and sophisticated data management, which are essential to a complete hyperconverged solution. Building on Cisco UCS server technology, the system provides a single point of management for Software Defined Computing.

software defined storage is integrated on Cisco Hyperflex Data Platform, demanding inline deduplication, compression brings and other data management techniques that leave our joint customers for desktop and app delivery.

World-class software defined network capabilities are part of the solution through the use of an integrated Cisco UCS fabric that ensures fast network traffic for demanding workloads those delivered via Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp including , One might even say that Cisco has a new concept called "microscaling" introduced that allows for their desktop and app scalable implementations easier for customers and scale of reconfiguration adding the Hyper Flex system or simply modules such as the client's needs. grow

Customer response

, the majority of customers with the HCl solution for VDI and app delivery is already working with Cisco HyperFlex systems use implementations Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop.

Meander Medisch Centrum, a healthcare provider in the Netherlands, is a long time Cisco and Citrix XenDesktop customers to the HCI room looking around on the go to provide more effectively require their applications for clinicians and other users who need access. Citrix Meander offers a secure and ubiquitous access to user workspaces hosted by Cisco HyperFlex system, a superior experience providing showing why #EveryoneUsesCitrix.

The interesting brought HCI space just a little with the exciting, got high-performance, enterprise-class HyperFlex solution us. Cisco

Citrix is ​​proud to be included for this new HCI platform as launch partner, and we are confident that our joint customers of the combined industry profit leading compute, network, storage and app and desktop delivery technologies integrated as a result of our long-term partnership. We are pleased to work with our clients and XenDesktop XenApp provided desktops and applications running on the Cisco HyperFlex systems.

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The path to Digital Business starts at Synergy

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I was putting together this post with top session picks for Citrix Synergy 2016 - coming to Las Vegas May 24-26 as I do every year, and it struck me :. Innovation with Citrix in the past year was amazing , the product groups are working at a rapid pace to new releases and functional enhancements that towards digital business transformation, our customers are the driving force, and it is exciting to see. had

Our channel partners a sneak peek at Citrix Summit in January, but that was nothing compared to what at Synergy in memory. There will be surprises in store, as we bring industry experts in Application Delivery together, user experience, security, network management, to demonstrate virtualization, file synchronization and cloud services, how to make all business applications of iOS and Android on the Web, SaaS and Windows to work better and more secure, more manageable and ready to make for changes.

ready for a preview? Let's go.


Sessions built expressly for you

Synergy are more technical content than ever before, with just over 100 outbreaks in Intro, Intermediate and Advanced. We retooling the agenda with fewer, longer sessions of 45, 60 and 0 minutes to give more time to the deep technical dives, which are so important.

Citrix technology professionals and the Citrix User Group Community is fully integrated into the conference, and more than a third of the sessions will be conducted by external experts. We are also dozens of customers have created sessions of the customers and suppliers; through our annual call for themed program, tell us something about your most pressing technical challenges and your biggest successes and the most convincing are selected, presented to each year at Synergy. It's how we keep the content relevant, and presentations fresh.

As we conclude our guest presenters and prepare to publish the full catalog of breakout sessions later this month, I wanted to give you the highlights.

to see my top picks for sessions in each track:

Desktop & App Delivery: Deliver Skype for companies with XenApp and XenDesktop
• mobility management: containerize and deliver mobile applications without writing a single line of code
• Cloud Services: Best practices for the use of Microsoft Azure and Hyper-V as a hybrid resource locations in Workspace cloud
• Networking: Learn how SD WAN speed and reliability of 80% provides less
• Security: I bet on Share File and won: a Share File travel customer

Intensive, interactive training

We have to listen to your wishes, and shows this year Synergy even more hands-on opportunities to learn from the Certification Center for self-directed, self-contained solutions demo sandbox. More ... Instructor-led Learning Labs preconference workshop is back! This format worked so well and so generates positive feedback last year; Participants enjoyed the time without distraction for learning began Synergy. The workshop takes place again on Sunday and Monday, with a networking happy hour on Sunday evening. As you know, fill these sessions quickly, so register early to secure your favorite

My top picks for Instructor-led Learning Labs .:

• The Citrix browser-service apps for secure Web application delivery
• Unified management of terminals for BYOD
• NetScaler Unified Gateway integration with XenApp and XenDesktop
• monitoring and XenApp and XenDesktop environment Troubleshooting the SCOM management pack and Director

Registration is now open for the laboratory workshop: I have a few excellent choice but mentioned be sure to search the catalog for the complete range. Also for the full session to see the catalog when it comes Live on March 21, and now make your plans Synergy in Las Vegas, 22-24 May to participate in 2016. I will update my feed with news as it happens: Follow me on Twitter @merisummers.

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Subscribe to our very first Twitter chat to become like #CitrixCertified!

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They still hope to at the end of the quarter reached target? Have you looked in your calendar? Can you believe already March it?

If you do not, that the distance goal you achieve met set a Citrix certification in Q1, and you begin to like time to feel running out, we have good news for you and are here to help.

Whatever get your reason for wanting Citrix Certified to act, the time is now!

for the first time ever, the Citrix Education Certification and Exam development team is hosting a Twitter chat to answer these open questions that you have, as you prepare for your certification exam.

We would like to give the opportunity to ask us all your certification and testing-related issues. I know what you're thinking, and the answer is NO. We will not share the actual answers to our tests to questions, but we will give pieces of information that you will surely find invaluable, including advice on where and how to find legitimate practice exams as for simulation products in our tests prepare, as the tasks and objectives in our Prep Guides listed to be used for our tests, etc.

Join prepare! Here's how.

  • Join to ask

    • up a reminder for 12:00 EDT Set, Wednesday, March 16 us on Twitter
    • Use hashtag #CitrixChat, your Enjoy questions
    • to share learning.
    • that's it!

    you hear from us in real time. You miss not miss this opportunity to engage directly with the people who design, construction and certification programs and exams here at Citrix manage.

    Who is your open questions? Look at the list of Citrix Certification and Exam Project Manager:

    • Lourdes Soler
    • Tawnisha Reynolds
    • Premkumar Mekara
    • Kpayah Tamba

    Register to see on Twitter at noon on March 16!