Citrix annual partner event at at Hotel Leela Kovalam, Trivandrum

Citrix, a leader in virtualization, networking and cloud infrastructure hosted ‘Citrix Partner Huddle 2014’ its annual partner event, from April 25 – 27, 2014 at Hotel Leela Kovalam, Trivandrum. The event constituted a platform to recognize and reward partner contribution and share Citrix’s vision of accentuating partner’s profitability with a revamped GTM strategy in India.

The event brought together Citrix’s entire channel fraternity and gave them an opportunity to learn about the latest innovations and opportunities in the burgeoning virtualization and mobility solutions market in India. The attendees were also acquainted with Citrix’s new GTM strategy which entrusts partners with more responsibilities and opportunities in selling Citrix solutions in India. In addition to the knowledge sharing sessions, Citrix also announced its annual awards for the partner community in India and welcomed new partners into its network.

Following channel partners were awarded for their prodigious contribution:

Partner of the Year (North & East)- PC Solutions Pvt Ltd
Partner of the Year (West)- Orient Technologies Pvt Ltd
Partner of the Year (South)- Veeras Infotek Pvt Ltd
Distributor of the Year-Avnet Technology Solutions (India) Pvt Ltd
Best SI Partner of the Year-IBM India Limited
Special Award – (Sri Lanka)-DMS Electronics (Pvt.) Ltd
Special Award – (Maldives)- Roseware Corporation Pvt. Ltd
Emerging Partner of the year-Dimension Data India Limited
Best Virtualisation Partner-IBM India Limited
Best Networking Partner-IBM India Limited
Best Mobility Partner-Umbrella Infocare Pvt. Ltd


“Citrix Partner Huddle 2014 has been a resounding success, and it reiterates our commitment to our channel ecosystem. Our partners are at the core of our strategy and we will continue to empower them with better growth and enablement opportunities.” said Kaushal Veluri, Director – Channels and alliances, Citrix India. “We are confident of reinforcing our pre-eminent market position with a richly invested relationship with our partner community.” he added.

About Citrix:

Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leader in virtualization, networking and cloud services to enable new ways for people to work better. Citrix solutions help IT and service providers to build, manage and secure virtual and mobile workspaces that seamlessly deliver apps, desktops, data and services to anyone, on any device, over any network or cloud. This year Citrix is celebrating 25 years of innovation, making IT simpler and people more productive with mobile workstyles. With annual revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than 330,000 organizations and by over 100 million people globally.

New security and feature enhancements to Citrix XenMobile® solution

Citrix today announced new security and feature enhancements to the Citrix XenMobile® solution.  The new release empowers organizations in highly regulated industries, such as government agencies, to embrace device choice, improve productivity with quick access to more apps, and provide support for Microsoft Lync online meetings and other communication environments, without sacrificing security, control and most importantly, user experience. Citrix also enables enterprises and government agencies that are planning to phase out BlackBerry devices to transition smoothly, knowing their data and existing apps are secure, integrated and supported.

Mobility is redefining the way people work and the way IT departments support them. For many organizations, the growth of mobile devices and applications is largely driven by employees' desire to be more productive. While the new era of mobile computing offers opportunities for organizations to boost worker productivity and employee satisfaction through programs, such as bring your own device (BYOD) or corporate-owned, personally enabled (COPE), governments and other highly regulated industries face the challenge of finding cost-effective enterprise mobility management (EMM) solutions that will meet their security and compliance requirements while providing a solid user experience.

XenMobile enables government agencies and other highly regulated organizations to mobilize their employees without sacrificing security or control. The security and feature enhancements to XenMobile include:

·         FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption for mobile apps, including secure email, browser and content collaboration. XenMobile creates a secure encrypted vault for application data on mobile devices so that government and enterprise workers can access critical documents and applications securely.

·         Better-than-native secure mobile email, calendar and contacts through the WorxMail™ app with FIPS compliant encryption for data at rest and data in motion. New enhancements include one-click access to leading communication and collaboration apps, such as Microsoft Lync, the FaceTime app, and SMS messaging directly from WorxMail calendar and contacts.

·         Support for a variety of email and collaboration solutions, such as existing systems like the IBM Lotus Notes client. Government workers also have secure mobile intranet access with single sign-on (SSO) to portals and SharePoint sites using the WorxWeb™ app, a containerized browser with full policy control.

·         Support for newly launched Apple iOS 7.1 and Microsoft Windows 8.1 operating systems, allowing devices with these new operating systems to be managed and controlled with XenMobile. XenMobile also adds VPN support for Amazon Kindle devices, enabling them to connect to corporate environments.

XenMobile provides a complete EMM solution for highly regulated organizations to manage mobile apps, data and devices. With XenMobile, government agencies and enterprises gain control over personal and corporate-issued mobile devices with full configuration, security, provisioning and support capabilities. This also includes visibility into currently deployed BlackBerry devices. XenMobile meets IT departments’ need for mobile security, compliance and control while allowing employees new ways to work better.

Quotes
Chris Chambers, Deputy Chief Information Officer, California Department of Justice
“Our agents are much happier with Citrix XenMobile. With fast access to information anywhere they need it, they can catch more criminals, find more missing people, close more cases and get home quicker. We’re finding ways to work smarter and get more out of our staff than we have ever been able to before. Citrix XenMobile is a game changer for us.”

Brian Abrahamson, Chief Information Officer, Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
“BYOD is happening with or without IT. Our staffs have secure access to important apps and data on their mobile devices anywhere anytime, enabling us to increase research productivity and operational effectiveness. This has had a huge positive impact on our organization, and has positioned IT more favorably with staff than any deployment in recent history.  It's about IT meeting staff on their terms, and recognizing the paradigm shift in how enterprise users expect to consume information and interact with the workplace.”

Steve Brasen, Managing Research Director, Enterprise Management Associates
“With the new Citrix XenMobile release, a broader audience of end users is empowered with the freedom to use the devices they prefer in the manner best suited to maximize their productivity without compromising stringent enterprise security and compliance requirements. No longer will employees be forced to always carry two separate mobile devices – a business device and a personal device – to perform tasks that are more effectively accommodated by one.”

Tom Simmons, Area Vice President, U.S. Public Sector, Citrix
“Mobility is one of the top three hot topics in government today and the need for a secure, flexible enterprise solution is a reality.  That need is transforming IT in government to address the use of both government-furnished devices and BYOD programs.  By embracing these mobility trends, agencies can improve employee productivity and job satisfaction while taking advantage of the latest in device and service-provider technologies.  Citrix XenMobile enables the management of the devices and the mobile applications, and when paired with other Citrix technologies that expose applications, IT resources and workspaces to these devices, provides the most complete EMM solution for government.”

Availability
Citrix XenMobile 8.7 will be available for download for current customers this month. For more information, please contact Citrix sales.


About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leader in virtualization, networking and cloud infrastructure to enable new ways for people to work better. Citrix solutions help IT and service providers to build, manage and secure virtual and mobile workspaces that seamlessly deliver apps, desktops, data and services to anyone, on any device, over any network or cloud. This year Citrix is celebrating 25 years of innovation, making IT simpler and people more productive with mobile workstyles. With annual revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than 330,000 organizations and by over 100 million people globally. Learn more at www.citrix.com.

For Citrix Investors
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New Citrix DesktopPlayer Extends Market-leading XenDesktop to Mobile MacBook Users

Citrix today announced the availability of Citrix® DesktopPlayer for Mac, a client virtualization solution, which extends the benefits of the market-leading Citrix XenDesktop® solution to mobile MacBook users. DesktopPlayer gives users the ability to work on their Windows virtual desktops in any network scenario — including over low-quality connections, congested WiFi hotspots, and even when no connection is available. Using DesktopPlayer with XenDesktop enables users to switch between local and hosted virtual desktops with ongoing synchronization of personal profiles and data. This allows users to work on their MacBook laptop, then seamlessly switch to any other device to access their cloud-hosted virtual desktop. End users gain freedom to work anywhere, independent of network conditions, and IT gains control with the ability to centrally-manage Windows virtual desktops delivered to either corporate or personally-owned ‘bring-your-own’ (BYO) MacBooks.

The mobile worker population is expected to continue to grow as more companies enable mobile workstyles for their employees. With this growth, the presence of BYO devices is also expected to rise. According to Forrester Research, the growth of BYO is expected across many personal devices including tablets and laptops. Forrester expects sales of new laptops used for BYO will grow from over 5 million in 2014 to over 7 million by 2016, significantly expanding the number of BYO laptops already in use within enterprises. By 2016, Forrester expects the number of employees using their own laptop or tablet to double1, significantly expanding the number of BYO laptops already in use within enterprises. In addition, a recent Citrix survey found that enterprises expect the presence of BYO MacBooks will grow from 5 percent of their employee base today to 16 percent by 20162. Given these trends, it is necessary to provide customers with the ability to extend the delivery of virtual desktops to this fast-growing segment. Unlike other solutions that currently serve this market, Citrix is the only company that can address multiple use cases via local and hosted virtual desktops with centralized management and control.

1.     Habitat For Engagement: Unleash Workforce Potential With Agile Enablement,” Forrester Research, Inc.: May 10, 2013
2.     Citrix sponsored survey of DABCC readers, 2013


Key Highlights of Citrix DesktopPlayer:
The core value of DesktopPlayer for enterprises is the Synchronizer back-end management tool, which is a robust Web-based system with granular policy controls for deploying, updating, managing and securing virtual desktops that run on a Type-2 hypervisor. With DesktopPlayer, enterprises can now:

·         Increase User Flexibility and Productivity – Enable mobile employees to use their personal or corporate-issued MacBook for accessing and interacting with locally-installed Windows applications and data, while keeping personal and corporate data separate and secure on the same device. Personal vDisk (PvD) technology within DesktopPlayer enables IT to provide users with the flexibility to install custom or departmental Windows applications and device and printer drivers — without losing central control over the base golden image.

·         Centralize Management for Corporate or BYO MacBooks – When using XenDesktop with DesktopPlayer, the same Windows virtual desktop can be deployed locally to Mac and PC laptops and managed centrally using the same virtual desktop image library and management infrastructure. With the Synchronizer, the base image is guaranteed to be consistent, significantly increasing patch and update success rates over traditional agent-based PC management. Moreover, with the Synchronizer, the updates are done at the hypervisor layer. Even if there is a problem in the base image, corrupting the OS image and rendering traditional PC management tools ineffective, the Synchronizer can still successfully update the base image.

·         Add Follow-me Profiles and Data on Any Device – The integration between DesktopPlayer and XenDesktop allows users to seamlessly move between their cloud-hosted and local virtual desktops when using their MacBook. User profile management integration allows for the synchronization of profiles across the hosted and offline virtual desktops. And with the addition of Citrix ShareFile®, users can also securely synchronize data seamlessly across all of their devices.

·         Gain Control over Corporate-owned and BYO Macs – With DesktopPlayer, IT can prevent access to, expire or even remotely wipe local virtual desktops in the event of device loss, theft or when an employee or contractor leaves the company.


DesktopPlayer is the only virtual desktop solution for MacBooks that provides local and offline capabilities, full centralized management and control for IT, and data security. Used with XenDesktop, it provides a powerful combination of the ability to work in a local, offline environment optimized for laptop users, while preserving the ability to access their cloud-hosted virtual desktop from anywhere on any device – whether from a home PC, thin client or public computer.


Availability:
DesktopPlayer is available now as a XenDesktop FlexCast® add-on at $75 per user/per device. Download a 90-day free trial of DesktopPlayer and use it with Synchronizer to manage up to ten MacBook Pro or MacBook Air laptops.


Quotes:
“DesktopPlayer is the perfect solution for our BYO Mac employees. It’s easy to use and performs very well, and it allows us to provide our corporate Windows image without having to wipe the users’ devices.” - Michael Thompson, Virtualization Engineer, Raymond James Financial

“Citrix DesktopPlayer makes it super easy to give a preconfigured Windows VM to Mac users all around the corporation. It is far easier than VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop.” - Arthur Blakely, Senior Systems Administrator

“The popularity of Apple products in businesses is clearly growing at a brisk pace. Enterprises are deploying desktop virtualization to enable mobile workstyles and manage the diversity of devices that users are bringing into the workplace. With the introduction of DesktopPlayer, these organizations can now address a rapidly growing set of users: mobile employees who need to access their virtual desktops on their MacBooks while disconnected. No other virtual desktop solution on the market provides the centralized management and security that DesktopPlayer and XenDesktop can.” - Calvin Hsu, Vice President, Product Marketing, Desktops and Apps, Citrix


About Citrix:
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a cloud company that enables mobile workstyles—empowering people to work and collaborate from anywhere, securely accessing apps and data on any of the latest devices, as easily as they would in their own office. Citrix solutions help IT and service providers build clouds, leveraging virtualization and networking technologies to deliver high-performance, elastic and cost-effective cloud services. With market-leading cloud solutions for mobility, desktop virtualization, networking, cloud platforms, collaboration and data sharing, Citrix helps organizations of all sizes achieve the speed and agility necessary to succeed in a mobile and dynamic world. Citrix products are in use at more than 330,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Annual revenue in 2012 was $2.59 billion. Learn more at www.citrix.com.

Bharat Forge Improves Manageability, Security and Employee Efficiency with Citrix XenDesktop Solution

Citrix announced the deployment of XenDesktop®, its desktop virtualisation solution at Bharat Forge Ltd, a global provider of critical components to automotive & industrial sectors and the flagship company of $2.5 billion Kalyani Group. The implementation has resulted in improved efficiency and manageability and increased data security for Bharat Forge as the solution utilizing a scalable building-block approach which can deliver applications to any device in any workplace environment.

Through the years, Kalyani Group has been on a fast-track course of growth, by means of acquisitions and resultant geographical expansion initiatives. The widespread nature of business operations created systemic IT issues such as a thick client architecture posing a bandwidth issue to render applications as well as sub optimal support & security for company sites in remote areas. To address these concerns, the company decided to use a progressive technology like desktop virtualisation and selected Citrix as its preferred solution.

“Citrix’s XenDesktop® has proven to be a compelling strategy to increasing employee productivity, IT manageability and better security of data in the context of a far-flung location base of our organisation.” said Yogesh Zope, Group CIO at Bharat Forge elaborating on the benefits augured by the solution. “We plan to replicate this success by scaling up the deployment to 400 licenses by the end of the year.”

“Increasingly, conglomerates are recognizing the business transformational capabilities of technologies such as desktop virtualisation and mobility solutions towards increased productivity and better IT manageability. We are pleased to partner with Bharat Forge by providing our desktop virtualisation solution in empowering them to increase business productivity, enable secure access of enterprise data, and attain their strategic growth objectives.” said Sanjay Deshmukh, Area Vice President, India Subcontinent, Citrix.

Through a phased manner, the implementation began with virtualising the applications that were used by IT and was then extended to ERP, Tally and other business critical applications in the group. Although, the solution was implemented across multiple geographies, the consolidation of all its servers at one central location ensured manageability and better control.  The implementation also augured well from a security and manageability standpoint. With the applications now hosted at the central servers, the company is now able to stream a single desktop image over the local area network to be accessed by thin clients. For home and remote users, the solution has empowered employees to access any data from anywhere with complete freedom of device choice.

About Bharat Forge Limited
Bharat Forge Limited (BFL), the Pune based Indian multinational is a technology driven global leader in metal forming having trans-continental presence across a dozen manufacturing locations, serving several sectors including automotive, power, oil and gas, locomotive & marine, aerospace and construction & mining.

Part of Kalyani Group – a US $ 2.5 billion conglomerate with 10,000 global work force; BFL today has the largest repository of metallurgical knowledge in the region and offers full service supply capability to its geographically dispersed marquee customers from concept to product design, engineering, manufacturing, testing and validation.

The world’s largest forging company with manufacturing facilities spread across India, Germany, Sweden and China, Bharat Forge manufactures a wide range of high performance, critical & safety components for the automotive & non-automotive sector. It is India’s largest manufacturer and exporter of automotive components and leading power train & chassis component manufacturer in the world. BFL’s customer base includes virtually every global automotive OEM and Tier 1 supplier. It takes pride in being at the forefront of a globalizing India and to contribute in making “Made in India’ a global brand in manufacturing industry.

About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) transforms how businesses and IT work and people collaborate in the cloud era. With market-leading cloud, collaboration, networking and virtualization technologies, Citrix powers mobile workstyles and cloud services, making complex enterprise IT simpler and more accessible for 260,000 organizations. Citrix products touch 75 percent of Internet users each day and it partners with more than 10,000 companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2011 was $2.21 billion. Learn more at www.citrix.com.