Vishal Ganeriwala

 

Director Technical Marketing

Citrix Systems

Primary activities include managing and growing a team of technical marketing engineers, product evangelism, demo development, demand content creation (i.e. white papers), technical sales support; planning, developing, and engaging with customers and the Citrix ecosystem. The team assesses market pulse, and aids in positioning products to drive competitive advantage, thought leadership, revenue and market share. Oversees market research, monitors competitive activity, identifies customer needs and maintains an important balance between technical and business thought leadership

  1. Back-to-Back: Citrix is placed in the Leaders category for IDC Client Virtualization MarketScape

    With great pride, I would like to share that Citrix has been placed in the Leaders category of the latest IDC MarketScape report “Worldwide client virtualization 2012 vendor analysis”. Every time I meet a XenDesktop customer they talk about FlexCast technologies and how it has changed the way they deliver desktops to their end user with great user experience. They rave about how XenDesktop and Citrix ...

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  2. Study (approved by VMware) proves that Citrix XenDesktop delivers a better user experience than VMware View for virtual desktops over the WAN while using significantly less bandwidth

    Around 20 years ago, Vanilla Ice - "Ice Ice Baby" was the hippest song on MTV, and 14.4 K modems were still the fastest way to connect to remote computers (the internet was still in infancy at that time). Citrix engineers were busy working on optimizing their remote connect protocol (ICA) because they knew, even at that time, a great user experience together with great ...

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  3. Save up to 50% on XenDesktop backup solution from SEP’s Xen & Now

    SEP Software's Xen & Now specializes in replacing multiple backup software products with one standardized solution and provides backup and disaster recovery for virtual environments. Xen & Now's backup and recovery for Citrix XenDesktop, XenServer & XenApp provides a powerful, fast, high performing, flexible and reliable recovery for virtualized servers, applications and data. More information on SEP can be found on their Citrix Ready page Xen & Now ...

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  4. Last day to register for the technical webinar on how ComTrade and their management product fits into the Citrix XenDesktop architecture

    If you are looking for a  management solution around XenDesktop and want to actually see real demos vs marketing pitch then attend this webinar. Webinar Date:  February 15th Time: 1-2pm EST This webinar will cover: About ComTrade and their management product and how it fits into the Citrix XenDesktop architecture Demo of ComTrade's Management Pack for Citrix XenDesktop, offering customers a scalable and fault-tolerant XenDesktop monitoring and management solution ...

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  5. Wyse — Citrix Ready Solution of the Year 2011 Finalist

    Congratulations to Wyse on being a FINALIST for the Citrix Ready Solution of the Year award! Last year at Citrix Synergy 2010, Citrix and Wyse jointly announced the development of Wyse Xenith - the first Citrix Ready zero client. Together, we are committed to driving innovation in Wyse Xenith, continuing to raise the bar in delivering greater simplicity and the best user experience for office workers. ...

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  6. Citrix Ready Solution of the Year 2011 finalist – Liquidware labs

    Liquidware labs has range of products in their product portfolio which extends and enhances the Citrix Desktop Virtualization solutions. Liquidware Labs solutions simplifies and help Citrix customers succeed with their desktop transformations. Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity™ provides migration of Windows native user data to Citrix XenDesktop and Windows 7 environments. It delivers a flexible user workspace with a universal profile that is compatible with any Windows ...

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  7. Citrix Ready Solution of the Year(2011) Finalists announced!

    Citrix is happy to announce the Citrix Ready Solution of the Year finalists for 2011. The finalists were shortlisted based on their nomination submissions that highlighted their impact on Citrix Business, commitment to relationship with Citrix, joint customer satisfaction, channel and field commitment and marketing commitment with Citrix The finalists (in no particular order) are: Congratulations to the finalists! The winner will be announced at: Citrix Synergy San Francisco, ...

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  8. Brief definitions of some storage technologies important for Desktop Virtualziation

    I often see customers and partners confused over some of the storage buzzwords. Here are brief definitions for admins who are tasked with desktop virtualization project and have to hear different Storage vendors pitch their technologies. Citrix StorageLink allows Citrix Ready StorageLink partners to write adapters and take full advantage of storage technologies creating an open ecosystem which is eventually beneficial for you as a ...

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  9. Webinar – Performance Management Challenges in Virtual Desktop Infrastructures

    On Nov. 4 from 12 noon - 1:00 pm eG Innovations, The 451 Group and Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) are hosting a webinar on Performance Management Challenges in Virtual Desktop Infrastructures. eg Innovations is a part of CSC Dynamic Desktop. The CSC Dynamic Desktop powered by Citrix XenDesktop™ is a hosted virtual desktop managed service enabling IT to centralize control of all end-user SOE virtual ...

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  10. Monitor your Citrix XenDesktop desktop virtualization infrastructure using eG innovations VDI Monitor

    I was first hand looking for a desktop virtualization monitoring solution which could alert me if the infrastructure had any problems. I was looking for a cloud solution where i didn't have to install a local database server and needed extra hardware. eG innovations VDI Monitor uses 100% web-based architecture, eG VDI Monitor-on-Tap makes performance and configuration monitoring available to you as a service over ...

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