The Citrix Session

In Season 2, Episode 1 of The Citrix Session, XenTegra's Andy Whiteside, Bill Sutton, and Randy Price are joined by Citrix's Mathew Varghese to discuss Citrix DaaS Flex and how it's transforming desktop modernization. The conversation explores persona-based computing, simplified cloud adoption, infrastructure management, security responsibilities, and how organizations can optimize costs while delivering the right user experience for every employee. Learn how Citrix is rethinking Desktop-as-a-Service by combining managed infrastructure, intelligent workload sizing, and operational simplicity into a modern platform built for today's digital workspace.

XenServer has been a part of the Citrix family since the acquisition of XenSource in 2007. It is a solid player in the virtualization market particularly for running Citrix workloads. With purpose built features for improving the performance of virtual desktops such as Intellicache, Read Caching, PVS-Accelerator, and GPU virtualization many organizations leverage XenServer to host and deliver their Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix DaaS workloads.Citrix recently announced that XenServer 8 is now included with their new subscription options: Citrix for Private Cloud, Citrix Universal Hybrid Multi-Cloud, and Citrix Platform License. In this episode we discuss XenServer generally as well as these new offerings and how they can be leveraged by customers. Host: Bill SuttonCo-host: Andy WhitesideCo-host: Geremy Myers

The Citrix Workspace app is a cloud-based platform application that is leveraged by millions of users for secure access to virtual desktops and apps from any device. The Citrix team knows how important it is to provide users with a clean, fast user experience, a modern look and feel, and a hassle-free start to the day.Since we released the Citrix Workspace app in 2019, we have continued to innovate and improve the user experience through streamlined management and integrations. As we detailed in our recent Destination: Hybrid event, we are focused on delivering the best possible app and desktop experience for your enterprise deployments and have been working to give users better access and control of their resources.That’s why we are excited to announce that we are revamping the cloud-based Workspace user interface (UI) into an ultra-sleek user portal to declutter app and desktop options. We are implementing new features within the UI that will improve the utility and usability of Workspace.Host: Andy WhitesideCo-host: Bill SuttonCo-host: Todd SmithCo-host: Geremy Meyers

It has only been a month since Citrix announced our strategy to support “Hybrid as the Destination”, an initiative to develop features both for on-prem and cloud customers, and already we are pleased to announce that Web Studio is now generally available for all Citrix customers! Regardless of the deployment scenarios, our customers now share the same modernized admin experience when using both Citrix DaaS and/or Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) on-prem deployments.Host: Bill SuttonCo-host: Geremy MeyersCo-host: Todd Smith

In the evolving world of hybrid work, Citrix is focused on delivering technologies that support organizations with streamlined maintenance and enhanced security, while ensuring users stay productive with high-performing access to corporate resources. Whether you decide to adopt on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or modernize your infrastructure with desktop as a service (DaaS), Citrix solutions can support your business however you choose to deploy.Citrix DaaS and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops deliver new features and enhancements that make it easier than ever for organizations to create agile work environments with apps and desktops delivered securely anywhere, on any device.Please use the following links to help you quickly navigate between sections in this announcement:Now Available: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 2209 Current ReleaseCitrix DaaS cloud partner updatesCitrix DaaS enhancementsWorkspace Environment Management (WEM) enhancementsHost: Andy WhitesideCo-Host: Bill SuttonCo-Host: Todd SmithCo-Host: Geremy Meyers

Cybersecurity can often seem to present impossible challenges as organizations strive to repel attack attempts. But, really, cybersecurity’s is about risk management — layering on controls to reduce risk to an acceptable level.Cybersecurity risk management requires a multi-faceted approach, and organizations should evaluate risk and choose the appropriate option(s) to address it. After a thorough risk assessment, the organization can choose to:Accept the risk: Organizations can acknowledge the risk and choose not to resolve, transfer, or mitigate it if it is not feasible.Avoid or eliminate the risk: This option may involve elimination of the risky service or feature to remove the risk from the equation.Mitigate the risk: This option is where technical and administrative controls are implemented to reduce the likelihood or impact of risk.Transfer the risk: This option assigns or moves the risk to a third-party via cyber liability insurance.Host: Andy WhitesideCo-host: Bill SuttonCo-host: Ben Rogers

In this podcast we reviewedThis is a guest blog post by Dr. Chris Marshall, Associate Vice President, IDC Asia Pacific. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.The last 18 months has been blighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. With countries hesitantly coming out of lockdowns, perhaps it’s a good time to ask what we have learned and what it means for enterprise technology and, more importantly, for the people who use technology in our enterprises.If I had to summarize what IDC has learned from our clients from COVID-19, it might best be captured in two words — DIGITAL RESILIENCY. With digital transformation (DX), digital underpins every aspect of the modern enterprise. This is often ignored in traditional approaches to business resiliency, which typically focus on safeguarding distinct enterprise functions or businesses on a piecemeal basis. It is also often ignored by standard IT risk management and disaster recovery practices that safeguard specific IT assets and resources. Both perspectives typically downplay the critical business capabilities supported by DX that cut cross organizational boundaries. Both are often purely defensive.By contrast, digital resiliency can be defined as the ability of the enterprise to not only restore essential business capabilities but also capitalize on the changed conditions to bounce back even better than before.Host: Andy WhitesideCo-Host: Bill SuttonCo-Host: Ben RogersCo-Host: Jon Spallone

Citrix and Google Cloud are longtime partners, and as we’ve moved into this new chapter of work — “The Remote Work Era” — our partnership has only grown stronger. From integrations with Chrome OS, to the ability to leverage Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) on Google Cloud Platform (announced at our Summit Series), we are evolving together to bring the best experience to our customers.That’s why we are incredibly excited to announce that we are officially a Chrome Enterprise Recommended partner! Chrome Enterprise Recommended is Google’s partner program for third-party solutions that are verified as meeting technical and support standards for Chrome OS. This program enables best-of-breed solutions to lead the way in the future of computing. Let’s take a closer look at what this partnership means.Host: Andy WhitesideCo-Host: Bill SuttonCo-Host: Ben RogersGuest: Monica Griesemer