To help businesses drive transformational performance and greater employee engagement, Citrix announced new secure digital workspace offerings that enable customers to reimagine where and how work happens – and what connected ‘things’ are involved.
New Citrix innovations include enhanced user experience capabilities in a unified, secure digital workspace; new mobile,software-defined networking and analytics services in the Citrix Cloud and advanced document workflows. In addition, Citrix is introducing a new intelligent security framework geared to secure and simplify access and control of the apps and data people need to work.
“The industry continues its rapid shift toward cloud and mobile-first strategies to boost workforce productivity and drive end user satisfaction. In fact, recent IDC research shows that in 2019, enterprises will spend US$2.1 trillion on technology and services to implement and manage digital transformation initiatives,” said Robert Young, Research Director, IT Service Management and Client Virtualization Software, IDC. “To help drive customer success in the future of work, Citrix has an opportunity to create exceptional end user experiences while providing IT with empowering tools to drive change, processes, and policies.”
Gartner says organisations currently using cloud services indicate they are allocating 40% of their IT budget to cloud-related spending (including cloud-related services). Seventy-eight percent of these organisations plan to increase their spending on cloud through 2017*. This proliferation of cloud technologies is frustrating end users who must navigate multiple cloud services, apps, and data sources as well as disparate access methods and credentials. Meanwhile, shadow IT increases these challenges by adding even more unsanctioned apps and tools. This, in turn, increases service complexity and the risk of security breaches as users circumvent IT standards.
To fuel productivity, Citrix is introducing an enhanced secure digital workspace user experience, which unifies access and management of mobile, cloud (software-as-a-service or SaaS), web and Windows apps and documents, and consolidates access, control and workflows. With a single sign-on using any federated identity, employees gain simple, secure access to a seamless, consistent experience on any device. Unlike other solutions, the Citrix secure digital workspace is designed to be contextual, ensuring employees have the optimal balance of security, productivity and performance based on location, device, identity and other analytics.
The new workspace experience is also the only solution to include advanced content collaboration, information rights management and business workflow capabilities. From directly within the secure digital workspace, users can create, edit and collaborate on Office 365 online documents. They can then initiate a custom workflow and approval process with colleagues – all without leaving the workspace, and without having to re-authenticate as they switch between SaaS applications.
The expanding and changing enterprise security perimeter – with new endpoints, locations, data sources, networks and clouds – is creating the need for more intelligence in orchestrating security policies across this new security perimeter. Citrix addresses these evolving security needs with an approach built around the reality of how people work. This approach provides expanded controls to form the basis for a new software-defined perimeter of the digital workspace, and complements other layers of defense in a multilayer approach to security. In addition, to provide security-focused offerings to help Citrix customers better protect their Citrix environments, Citrix Consulting Services is formalising a Security Practice.
Citrix is also unveiling Citrix Analytics, a new, holistic security and behaviour analytics offering that extends the capabilities of the Citrix NetScaler Management and Analytics System (MAS) with new behavior detection, insights, and proactive risk resolution capabilities. This new offering leverages machine learning. The new security solution analyses data sets across the Citrix product portfolio – XenApp/XenDesktop, XenMobile, ShareFile, NetScaler and leverages machine learning algorithms and application behaviour anomaly detection technology to enable IT organisations to find and quickly troubleshoot application infrastructure performance issues.
Citrix Cloud continues to provide cloud-based management across all Citrix technologies. This empowers customers to combine the applications, data and tools needed to work from the cloud and deliver them to people anywhere in secure, personalised and relevant ways. Customers who use it for virtual apps, desktops and data can place their workloads on any public or hybrid cloud, or on any on-premises virtualised environment.
Citrix has introduced new services, features and capabilities to build out this workspace delivery model. These services include XenApp Essentials and XenDesktop Essentials that are native to Microsoft Azure, but managed from Citrix Cloud. Additional Citrix Cloud services include XenMobile device management and app management and NetScaler Gateway Service, allowing customers to create a gateway-in-the-cloud, speeding and simplifying implementation. In addition, Citrix Cloud offers integration with Azure Active Directory for administrators, Internet of things (IoT) capabilities, and other new services in our labs area.
“To be efficient and successful, organisations need to provide their people with a simple, unified and consistent user experience on any device with intelligent security that’s designed to deliver the workspace of the future,” said PJ Hough, Senior VP, product, Citrix. “To protect and sustain business operations, enterprises need powerful new security analytics that predict potential risks and enable managers to proactively address them. "
*Gartner, Market Trends: Cloud Adoption Trends Favor Public Cloud With a Hybrid Twist, Ed Anderson, Sid Nag, August 4, 2016.
New Citrix innovations include enhanced user experience capabilities in a unified, secure digital workspace; new mobile,software-defined networking and analytics services in the Citrix Cloud and advanced document workflows. In addition, Citrix is introducing a new intelligent security framework geared to secure and simplify access and control of the apps and data people need to work.
“The industry continues its rapid shift toward cloud and mobile-first strategies to boost workforce productivity and drive end user satisfaction. In fact, recent IDC research shows that in 2019, enterprises will spend US$2.1 trillion on technology and services to implement and manage digital transformation initiatives,” said Robert Young, Research Director, IT Service Management and Client Virtualization Software, IDC. “To help drive customer success in the future of work, Citrix has an opportunity to create exceptional end user experiences while providing IT with empowering tools to drive change, processes, and policies.”
Gartner says organisations currently using cloud services indicate they are allocating 40% of their IT budget to cloud-related spending (including cloud-related services). Seventy-eight percent of these organisations plan to increase their spending on cloud through 2017*. This proliferation of cloud technologies is frustrating end users who must navigate multiple cloud services, apps, and data sources as well as disparate access methods and credentials. Meanwhile, shadow IT increases these challenges by adding even more unsanctioned apps and tools. This, in turn, increases service complexity and the risk of security breaches as users circumvent IT standards.
To fuel productivity, Citrix is introducing an enhanced secure digital workspace user experience, which unifies access and management of mobile, cloud (software-as-a-service or SaaS), web and Windows apps and documents, and consolidates access, control and workflows. With a single sign-on using any federated identity, employees gain simple, secure access to a seamless, consistent experience on any device. Unlike other solutions, the Citrix secure digital workspace is designed to be contextual, ensuring employees have the optimal balance of security, productivity and performance based on location, device, identity and other analytics.
The new workspace experience is also the only solution to include advanced content collaboration, information rights management and business workflow capabilities. From directly within the secure digital workspace, users can create, edit and collaborate on Office 365 online documents. They can then initiate a custom workflow and approval process with colleagues – all without leaving the workspace, and without having to re-authenticate as they switch between SaaS applications.
The expanding and changing enterprise security perimeter – with new endpoints, locations, data sources, networks and clouds – is creating the need for more intelligence in orchestrating security policies across this new security perimeter. Citrix addresses these evolving security needs with an approach built around the reality of how people work. This approach provides expanded controls to form the basis for a new software-defined perimeter of the digital workspace, and complements other layers of defense in a multilayer approach to security. In addition, to provide security-focused offerings to help Citrix customers better protect their Citrix environments, Citrix Consulting Services is formalising a Security Practice.
Citrix is also unveiling Citrix Analytics, a new, holistic security and behaviour analytics offering that extends the capabilities of the Citrix NetScaler Management and Analytics System (MAS) with new behavior detection, insights, and proactive risk resolution capabilities. This new offering leverages machine learning. The new security solution analyses data sets across the Citrix product portfolio – XenApp/XenDesktop, XenMobile, ShareFile, NetScaler and leverages machine learning algorithms and application behaviour anomaly detection technology to enable IT organisations to find and quickly troubleshoot application infrastructure performance issues.
Citrix Cloud continues to provide cloud-based management across all Citrix technologies. This empowers customers to combine the applications, data and tools needed to work from the cloud and deliver them to people anywhere in secure, personalised and relevant ways. Customers who use it for virtual apps, desktops and data can place their workloads on any public or hybrid cloud, or on any on-premises virtualised environment.
Citrix has introduced new services, features and capabilities to build out this workspace delivery model. These services include XenApp Essentials and XenDesktop Essentials that are native to Microsoft Azure, but managed from Citrix Cloud. Additional Citrix Cloud services include XenMobile device management and app management and NetScaler Gateway Service, allowing customers to create a gateway-in-the-cloud, speeding and simplifying implementation. In addition, Citrix Cloud offers integration with Azure Active Directory for administrators, Internet of things (IoT) capabilities, and other new services in our labs area.
“To be efficient and successful, organisations need to provide their people with a simple, unified and consistent user experience on any device with intelligent security that’s designed to deliver the workspace of the future,” said PJ Hough, Senior VP, product, Citrix. “To protect and sustain business operations, enterprises need powerful new security analytics that predict potential risks and enable managers to proactively address them. "
*Gartner, Market Trends: Cloud Adoption Trends Favor Public Cloud With a Hybrid Twist, Ed Anderson, Sid Nag, August 4, 2016.
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