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Höhepunkte der Citrix Synergy Barcelona Keynote 2011

Mark Templeton eröffnet die Synergy Barcelona Keynote mit einer Reihe von Updates. Citrix Receiver ist heute bereits für mehr als 1,5 Mrd. Endgeräte verfügbar. Das neueste Release - Receiver 5 für iOS - wurde in der letzten Woche angekündigt und steht bereits zum Download im AppStore zur Verfügung. Receiver 5 für iOS macht es möglich, dass Anwendungen bis zu 50% schneller starten und der Zugriff ...

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Citrix Cloud Lösungen: Personal, Private, Public Clouds

Die Consumerization der IT ist ein wichtiger Grund für den Wandel von der PC-Ära hin zur Cloud-Ära. Viele IT-Verantwortliche diskutieren im Zusammenhang mit Cloud Computing vor allem über Begriffe wie Software as a Service (SaaS), Desktop as a Service (DaaS) oder Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - mittlerweile gibt es aber auch schon erste Cloud-Werbespots im Radio. Das Thema ist also nicht nur in Unternehmen ...

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My initiation to Citrix Receiver and Personal Cloud

I just completed my first month at Citrix …and it cannot get any more exciting! How does it feel to go from marketing  analog mixed-signal / low power chip design software, microprocessors, servers, notebooks, 3D and touchscreen technologies to evangelize Citrix Receiver and its pivotal role in making the Personal Cloud real?? Ask me....this is truly exciting stuff! As far as I can tell in my first few ...

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Appliance vs. General Purpose – Here we go again!

Since the introduction about five years ago of smartphones and their dramatic pace of commoditization, the trend of end users bringing their own devices into the workplace and asking or demanding that IT support them has been picking up pace. This consumerization trend has been accelerating following last year's introduction of the iPad. As a completely new form factor, the iPad is driving ...

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Self Service is the Future

What should users have to do? Should users have to call a helpdesk to fulfill every type of application provisioning request? That certainly is not the case with the modern day ATM/Cash Point.Should users have to stick with working from a single device type? That certainly doesn't happen in the consumer world. Users have intuitive interfaces that make it simple for them to find and ...

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The CMIO’s Dilemma

For the past decade or so, Electronic Health Records have seen a significant rise in adoption in the US and - to a lesser extend - abroad. One of the often cited barriers to faster adoption is a reluctance on the part of the clinical staff to use such systems, embrace them, and do many of the tasks previously completed by an army of helpers ...

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Consumerization of IT and the Apple iPad

User Demands and IT Requirements Growing Further Apart It seems to me that what people want from IT and what IT is able to provide them is getting further and further apart.  People want fast, easy access to their Windows desktop and business apps from any device.They don't particularly care about security, networking or infrastructure costs.  They just want to get their jobs done efficiently ...

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The iPad, Citrix and BYOC

In case you haven't noticed, the diversity of mobile computing devices continues to grow with no signs of slowing down. From netbooks to smartphones, and everything in between, consumers have a dizzying range of choices, many of which have captured their imagination in ways that old school corporate computing devices could never do. And this explosion of devices took a step function leap forward this ...

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