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I am pleased to announce the CloudGateway 1.0 - industry's first unified service broker.Every enterprise is facing two major trends - consumerization of IT and cloud-sourcing of apps. These two trends are driving an explosion of devices and apps within the enterprise. Devices brought into the enterprise by the users themselves, and apps brought into the enterprise by LOBs. Both a demand for mobility ...

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Today Cisco and Citrix announced a five-year strategic alliance agreement with a goal of driving rapid innovation for desktop virtualization and cloud computing Almost a year ago, Citrix and Cisco kicked off our partnership on desktop virtualization. Making our customers successful has always been the goal of our partnership from the beginning. Last year, we focused on validation and integrated support of our joint solution. And, ...

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Here at Synergy 2011, Citrix made some key announcements and demonstrated next generation technologies for Citrix Receiver - taking a big step forward in terms of offering our customers a universal client for end users to access their enterprise apps, desktops and data from any device, anywhere.What is our vision for Citrix Receiver?At the beginning of this year, I took on a new role ...

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Today Citrix demonstrated Citrix Receiver for Google Chrome Notebook at Google's launch event in San Francisco (watch the replay). Citrix Receiver gives people access to their enterprise apps using any device, anywhere - enabling IT to embrace consumerization and make their employees more productive.Consumerization will force more IT change over the next few years than any other technology or trend. The phrase "consumerization of IT" ...

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We all know that end users continue to expect more from their computing experience. Easy and effective communication and collaboration is definitely the top of the list for almost all users. They want to communicate and collaborate on their own terms. Just think about how many times we are all involved in collaboration everyday - IM, VoIP and online meetings during day, social media in ...

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First anniversary of Windows 7 and mobility is front and centerHere we are - just passed the first anniversary of the release of Windows 7. Most consumers who have bought new PCs in the past year have embraced the new desktop OS and never looked back, and Enterprise IT is starting to pick up steam on Windows 7 migration plans. Meanwhile, over the course ...

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Over 15,000 Citrix Ready products for desktop virtualizationThe objective of Citrix Ready partners is to provide customers with choice and flexibility of using their own products with Citrix products. There are over 15,000 Citrix Ready products for Citrix's desktop virtualization - both for virtual apps and desktops. Some of the partners go above and beyond in their efforts to support their products with Citrix's ...

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Transformations at the desktop is hereTransformation involves changing the nature, function or condition of an object. It sounds daunting. Most of us have been part of a transformation without even knowing it. Sometimes they are business transformations where the company we work for is trying to retool the business model. Sometimes, we experience a cultural transformation. The cool thing with the desktop virtualization is ...

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For all XenApp customers who used Trade-up program to get access to complete desktop virtualization with XenDesktop 4, congratulations! For others who could not, I have some great news.New Trade-up Promotion to XenDesktopToday, Citrix announced a new Trade-up to XenDesktop promotion, making it easy and cost-effective for our XenApp customers to join the thousands of other users that are making virtual desktops a reality with ...

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