The story that Citrix was telling this year at their annual summit was compelling: here are a few of the highlights from the sessions.
Citrix Workspace Cloud
This is how the future is going to look, a single pane of glass management across multiple clouds. Engineers, Consultants, Nuns or IT admins will use this Citrix-based cloud platform which will automate, design and complete the delivery of desktops, apps and data as services.
http://www.citrix.com/products/workspace-cloud/overview.html
Citrix WorkspacePod (Powered by HP)
Citrix WorkspacePod is a complete, integrated solution for delivering modern workspaces, which leverages the recent Citrix acquisition of Sanbolic.
http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/jan-2015/citrix-acquires-sanbolic.html
ShareFile
ShareFile has added in some cool new features, making it an even more compelling Dropbox-replacement for organisations looking to enable enterprise file sharing:
- Office 365 Connector enables secure mobile access and editing for documents stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Businesses which allows users to:
- Link your ShareFile account to your Office 365 account
- Access SharePoint Online document libraries from the ShareFile mobile app
- Access OneDrive for Business files and folders from the ShareFile mobile app
- Check in and out documents from a SharePoint team folder
- Personal Cloud Connectors allow users to access their Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive accounts from ShareFile. You can see the Citrix YouTube demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc_XjDuGdf4
- Mobile document creation and editing – previously only available to enterprise customers but now extended to all ShareFile users – offers users the ability to create, review and edit Microsoft Office documents and annotate Adobe PDF files within ShareFile on mobile devices.
The overall theme of Citrix Summit 2015 is that the promise of mobility and freeing people from a 9 to 5, chained-to-a-desk doctrine that has been for so long ingrained into society is here, and available today.
- Frank Hutchinson, Technical Team Lead for Data Centre and Virtualisation
