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Organisational culture remains a significant barrier to flexible working in Ireland
We recently conducted a study in Ireland in association with iReach Market Research - indicating a significant disconnect between the surge in personal and smart mobile devices in the Irish workplace and policies in place to support flexible working. Seventy three per cent of the 336 businesses questioned indicated that their organisation does not currently support a flexible or mobile working culture, citing “loss of ...
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Citrix study demonstrates that mobility can improve South African personal income by 40 per cent
We recently commissioned a study to understand if the technology that we provide to businesses, to help workers access information and knowledge more easily, could have a broader impact on the South African economy. Conducted by leading South African economist Dr Adrian Saville, the findings were significant, showing that a small improvement in labour mobility could potentially have huge economic benefits for South Africa. An increase ...
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Dublin Business School empowers its students with virtual desktop technology
Dublin Business School (DBS), Ireland’s largest independent third-level college, has implemented Citrix® VDI-in-a-box™ to offer its 9,500 students a greater variety of classes and flexible study options, maximising learning time in the classroom, and reducing log in and application load times. In essence, existing technology was hindering the growth and development of the college and the quality of the course programme on offer to students. With ...
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Irish electricity provider deploys Citrix technology to empower its workforce
Dublin Bay Power Plant (DBPP) has rolled out a Citrix cloud services environment to help support its growing IT infrastructure – ultimately allowing staff to work more efficiently and flexibly, creating a greener IT environment and reducing total hardware cost savings over a ten-year period by approximately 82 per cent. DBPP is a 400 mega watt combined cycle gas turbine generation plant situated in Ringsend, a ...
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Ireland Minister Ruairí Quinn TD launches new Citrix programme to address ICT skills gap
Ireland’s Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn TD, today officially launched the Citrix Academy Network in Ireland, designed to equip students with advanced technical skills essential for an IT career in virtualisation or networking. IT Sligo, in the west of Ireland, is the first Higher Education Institution in Ireland to join the Academy Network, offering the course to third level students. The Citrix Academy Network will ...
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City of Sunderland to deliver an innovative city-wide cloud – powered by Citrix, Cetus and IBM
You may recall that Sunderland City in the UK recently announced its plans to deploy a truly innovative city-wide cloud computing platform that will be planned, designed, provisioned and implemented by Cetus Solutions, IBM and powered by Citrix virtual computing technologies. This project is particularly innovative as the council intends on creating a cloud environment that not only supports its own IT requirements – creating a more ...
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Guarding UK migrates to the cloud with Citrix
Some exciting news - Guarding UK, the specialist manned guarding and key holding supplier, has chosen to move its technology infrastructure to the cloud using specialist IT support provider, VESK, and Citrix virtual computing solutions to provide seamless access to its critical applications. This is particularly pertinent as in its line of work, Guarding UK has to comply with a number of regulations and requirements ...
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Citrix Ireland is hiring!
You may have noticed that Citrix Systems Ireland is expanding again. We’re currently recruiting for up to 50 new roles based out of our Dublin office to support the on-going growth of Citrix technical services business in the EMEA region. This is in addition to the 30 new jobs announced in March 2010. As our customers embrace virtual and cloud computing as an agile and cost ...
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NATS UK takes to the cloud with the help of Citrix
NATS, the leading air traffic control organisation in the UK, has announced that it is to implement a multi-million pound project to transfer all its desktop IT services to a cloud-based infrastructure. By creating a secure, virtual desktop environment the company expects to reduce costs by £9 million over the next four years, shrink its environmental footprint, improve flexibility and enhance the service it ...