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The debate on the pros and cons of IT outsourcing from Switzerland municipalities, cities and utilities come every three to four years after OBT AG, a provider Citrix service is located in St. Gallen.

"The authorities wonder whether the local switching to cloud IT infrastructure is financially worthwhile. Topics such as data security in the cloud compared to the challenges of operating and updating of complex in-house environments some the considerations are, "said Michael Ammann , Business Unit Manager.

OBT much has under her belt success their cloud hosting services are a better alternative than an expensive in-house IT infrastructure in convincing authorities in German-speaking Switzerland, as well-many other types of customer that. Your experience in supporting the growing demand for safe mobile working is often a decisive factor.

The "OBT Swiss Cloud" is the partner of the standard range of services, although OBT also provides customized solutions.

, the OBT Swiss cloud , built on XenDesktop, XenApp and NetScaler , provides the complete Microsoft Office suite as well as specific applications of NEST and Abacus by public authorities and utilities used.

Quick change of local IT infrastructure hosting cloud

"five years ago, virtually no one for a cloud solution was to ask."

But in the last three years, the demand for cloud solutions has been constantly. Customers do not want the responsibility for the operation and management of IT.

"We realized this trend and further expanded our data centers to address it. We have the right decision. Today, the demand for cloud services is higher than for in-house IT solutions "Ammann said

He pointed out that the growth in the public sector is strong and OBT is concentrated in this area.

His next goal? Small and medium businesses.

marketing activities of its OBT Swiss cloud to promote brand in the SMB market, are already in the works, as they tap into the lucrative market to prepare.

OBT uses Citrix training on a continuous basis.

another secret to the success of the service provider? Ongoing training .

"Our system engineers, particularly take to improve their professional skills by regular courses provided by Citrix and its distributors and to consult of knowledge bases. OBT also creates test environments. For us, it is very important that our engineers, the large server farms have will sound professional expertise and gain the benefits of using a high-performance network. "

OBT poised for growth, by solidifying its position actively tap into existing public sector markets and marketing in the wide-open SMB market, supported by core Citrix technology and an ongoing investment in training for consistently exceptional customer experience.

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On many moonless night, I'll be out there, next to my telescope images of clusters, nebulae and galaxies grab for my amateur astrophotography. But there is a balance to create a big picture vs. just wasting time. Once it gets past 2:00 or the temperature below 0 Fahrenheit, I'm done. But I have plenty of pictures to create an OK photo or a great photo?

look to take a photo of deep-sky objects, you need to let your camera capture much light by the guide shutter open for many minutes at a time. Of course, at the same time, you also build the noise on the imaging up chip.Here an example of each is 0 seconds Image of M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula

If you share multiple pictures take and stack, increase the signal while reducing the noise. This is a stack of 29 images, each 2 minutes in length 58

for minutes The picture was pretty much clear. The signal was stronger and the noise was reduced. Of course, the more pictures you and stack to achieve the stronger signal, but the noise is reduced only take the square root of the number of images. Do not worry, I will not go for this in mathematics, because this graph makes very clear the concept.

How do I take more frames is such that noise. But to keep the noise to have drop by another factor, I have to make many, many, many more images. Now I'm going to spend hours of time the additional recording of images, processing of images and all for a minimal improvement in image quality. And while I'm out with the telescope, I reduce the risk of frostbite (true story) to go hypothermia or eaten by a bear, a wolf or a moose ( "Yah sure you betcha. Don -Chya-no I in da Minnesoda ") .

The same concept applies for XenApp and XenDesktop deployments true. You can optimize and then you can optimize .

There are hundreds of ways you can optimize XenApp better. Some of these are simple, proven and is a significant, positive impact on either the user experience or resource use have. But there is a point of diminishing returns. For example, what benefit I will, if I disable a Windows service? Probably not much. And in fact, the more you tweak, the greater the possibility of something dangerous to do the health of your system. I have often heard that someone just some harmless Windows service off a few months later to find out that a new application or update that requires service.

Does this mean that stick with the default configuration? OMG NO.

Start with the great items. Start with these elements, and are demonstrably been shown to improve the experience or to reduce the use, without potentially compromising the stability of the system. I'm talking about things like

1. Provisioning Services RAM Cache: This will not only reduce the memory usage, but it will actually improve the user experience. In the simplest form I can offer ... Disk slow RAM is fast. Use RAM.
2. Microsoft Lync / Skype for Business Optimization: How do we make more people video calls with Lync and Skype for business, we see a hit on our processor. This XenApp / XenDesktop function, we are drastically able resource consumption reduced to our host servers
3. Session prelaunch. Logon problems might be one of the most common issues for each system, and I do not even talk about XenApp / XenDesktop. But at least with XenApp, we can logon delays in Session prelaunch overcome
4. Policy Templates: XenApp and XenDesktop have a very powerful policy engine, allowing you to customize the user experience with the scenario. If you are outside, get this, if you are on this unit externally with this configuration, you can do that if you belong to this group, you can do something else, if you are in this subnet, this desktop group are, have this day, you will receive this configuration, and if your iOS device is jailbroken, you can only do one thing. It is highly efficient, which means that many implementations configure anything. Here is a great starting point the latest policy templates in XenApp & XenDesktop 7.6 Feature Pack 3, as they are tailored for a particular application to use.

Now do not get me wrong, go and optimize to the system as much as your heart desires, but at a minimum, you should focus on those items that have a major impact can.

XenApp Best Practice # 2 : For the best combination of suitably usability and resource usage optimization

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XenApp best practices

The following instructions explain how to upgrade from an earlier version of Linux VDA to the latest version 1.1 version. The steps vary depending on whether you are upgrading from the Tech Preview or version 1.0, but both are relatively simple.

The upgrade from Version 1.0

For an upgrade from version 1.0, you simply install the new RPM package with the upgrade option on the rpm utility:

rpm -U XenDesktopVDA-1.1.0.240-0.x86_64. rpm

You will notice in the screenshot above that the reported version number does not match the version specified in the rPM file name information. This can be safely ignored. The message is incorrectly 1.0 RPM printed by the version as it is removed

You can confirm that the VDA has updated indeed to version 1.1 by querying the package version with the following command .:

rpm -q XenDesktopVDA

All that remains your settings to the new version is to run the configuration script to migrate:

ctxsetup.sh

the script will recognize that you have upgraded and none of the questions it would on a fresh install.

that the HDX and VDA services should now be up and running again. You can do this by confirming:

Service ctxvda status

Service ctxhdx status

The upgrade of the Tech Preview

We do not support an upgrade from the tech preview version to a production release of the Linux VDA. The RPM tool prevents you is not installing from this experiment, but the resulting not work. The only way to install to upgrade from a Tech Preview is, uninstall the old version first:

rpm -e XenDesktopVDA

Now you can use the new package install

rpm -i XenDesktopVDA-1.1.0.240-0.x86_64.rpm

Since this is a new installation, the configuration script must be executed:

ctxsetup.sh

Once the script you finished confirm launched the HDX and VDA services that have:

service ctxvda status

service ctxhdx status

Now that you have installed a production version of Linux VDA, will work the normal RPM upgrade process for you is forward.

to read more of the Linux Virtual Desktop team, be sure to consider all of our posts here.

Are you XenServer rolls, should be as far as you?

You know that XenServer is server virtualization platform that comes with the Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop licenses you own.

and you can on the latest developments in vgpu support, chances resources with the latest XenServer 6.5 Read improvements as in in-memory consolidation have read -cache, live migration and workload migration. And it would be great to reduce the VMWare account with a hypervisor that delivers more value?

If you are not sure you are ready to use XenServer to its fullest potential, or how best to have your team know about the best value in the hypervisor management we up a proposal for the ramp , Take the new XenServer 6.5 Course of Citrix Education.

The content is written by consultants and architects who have the real world data center virtualization. The design was appealing and immersive be completely renewed. And yes, because it is by Citrix Education, it provides the necessary skills to effectively design, implement, manage, and support Citrix XenServer 6.5 SP1.

to take the plunge, the first guy or gal to know in your region, the latest and greatest XenServer. Register; we show you a list of places where you can take the class and access to all content and a virtual lab environment, where you can configure and perform a XenServer environment in a sandbox

Citrix XenServer recently added support for Maxwell-core architecture based Tesla cards with M60 6.5 SP1 version of Windows operating system.

Tesla M60 is the first of its kind, solution Dual GM204 with two able fully GM204 GPUs and 16 GB GDDR5 released into the consumer market. The M60 is a full sized, dual-slot card similar to the previous generation NVIDIA GRID card, but the power of the latest NVIDIA GRID 2.0.

This is an exciting addition to Xen Desktop / Xen Server users voted as NVIDIA GRID 2.0 a hardware supply to the needs of desktop virtualization workloads graphically demanding. NVIDIA GRID 2.0 fills the felt long empty at end customers due to non maintainability for blade servers and VMs with Linux. However nonexistent NVIDIA GRID cards based on Kepler architecture support NVIDIA GRID 2.0. Therefore would K1 / K2 cards characteristics supported by Tesla missing M60 cards.

M60 supports per GM204 GPU to 32 vgpu concurrent users or 16 users. XenServer 6.5 SP1 supports 128 concurrent VMs with four Tesla M60 card on Dell PowerEdge C4130 rack servers.

The following table compares Kepler and Maxwell Cards

benefits of using Tesla M60 cards with XenServer:

• More VMs per server : Xen Server allows the user Tesla to press M60 map up to 128 users per server

• higher resolution heads . Xen Server / Xen Desktop users can now create maps M60 higher resolution using heads even after the maximum number of vGPUs on Tesla. So this card even more attractive when compared to NVIDIA GRID K1
• support blade servers .: companies can now run NVIDIA GRID virtual desktops on blade servers with XenServer activated.
• vgpu support for Linux VMs: vgpu Dundee, is the next version of Citrix Xen Server, supported on Linux HVM guests RHEL 7.0, Ubuntu 14.0.4 with Tesla M60 card. Enabling GPU powered desktops in a Linux-based VDI environment is an added advantage for all XenServer users.

Will not you also that some things go better together

[1945007?] Citrix EMM and Office 365: Better together

Citrix and Microsoft have had a long history together and we continue to invest in the strength of that relationship (like milk and cookies!). We are today the most strategic and valuable partner. After all, to provide on the basis of Citrix's core business centers secure virtualized Windows applications and desktops.

Like I said, when it comes to enterprise mobility management (EMM), it is worthwhile to know that Citrix and Microsoft complement each other so well!

Today, Citrix offers a mature EMM solution both for mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) of a uniform and enterprise-grade platform is that is available locally or in the cloud.

With Citrix, business efficiently the delivery of business productivity apps to manage, while securing mobile endpoints, data at rest and in motion, while seamlessly secure the Apps.

Microsoft office 365 is our favorite office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, on almost all devices. When Office 365 subscriber, the user desktop applications can run in the cloud, and they also have the option of mobile versions of Office applications running natively - that is, directly on the device

Citrix XenMobile supplements Microsoft. Office through mobile devices and apps security so provides enterprise IT in providing the Office 365 apps for mobile users is comfortable. Citrix XenMobile significantly reduces the risk of data loss and reduces compliance problems with the use of strong encryption and elimination of data leaks Here are a few ways XenMobile and Office

365 cooperate in mobile environments .:

distribute public office to save 365 Apps in the enterprise. As a managed app, the administrator has full capability to publish privileges for users and to revoke.

In order to encrypt all data to ensure on the device, easy to set-up force of MDM policy device code.

Enable both data at rest and data in motion security with per-app VPN with NetScaler. The same will NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) for Citrix WorxMail and other Worx apps for Office 365.

exchange of data and documents used with native Office apps the Open MAM functionality comes from the device. have received an office complex in WorxMail, in different Office 365 apps in a seamless manner can now be opened.

prevent unauthorized cloud storage and users to a more sanctioned cloud storage XenMobile integration with Cloud Access Service Brokers (CASB of) like Citrix Share File with the to help protect against data loss (DLP).

Above are some examples of how the XenMobile EMM solution meets the most stringent levels of security requirements combining its industry MAM functions leads with MDM.

with Microsoft Office apps mobile employees Empowering users is a critical component to work more efficiently and seamlessly regardless of their location.

lack of strong security can be a major challenge for mobile productivity - and it does not have to compromise between productivity and security. Together, Citrix and Microsoft complimented by convincing solutions and services that enable companies to realize both - high security and mobile productivity

For more information on how XenMobile and Office 365 work better together.

• Webinar - Secure and XenMobile
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• Whitepaper- Securing and managing O365 manage]

In 2015, we introduced a new way to success for Citrix Solution Advisors :. Citrix specializations

partner love to a large extent because of the great benefits now available to them

'We believe that the specialization greater employee satisfaction , bonding and loyalty to drive. "-. Peter Gustafsson , Citrix alliance manager, Atea

Citrix specialists see a range of services from financial rewards to exclusive practice development content to give more consideration to Citrix sales.

provides Citrix strong ROI for partners who earn Specialist status, and they can benefit from increased customer acquisition and to gain a higher return.

"we already have a proven track record and now our specializations are proof that we Citrix best practices to follow for the project analysis to build and support processes. "- Mathias Törnblom , CEO, EnvokeIT

specializations provide incremental financial rewards for higher technical competence

[1945008th] "Once the specializations were announced, we have made a strategic decision to reach everyone as quickly as possible. Improved price protection and back-end margin provides an additional incentive for our sales teams, which in turn creates stronger focus these products on sale. "- Mark Westling , Executive Vice President and CTO, Right Systems, Inc.

leveling

Please remember hour ticking - in 2016, partners with several specializations able to achieve this, next medallion level with lower revenue requirements

"Citrix specialization reinforces and strengthens our partnership with Citrix. . "- has Jim stone Location , CEO, choice solutions

plus of specializing in more than one category technology that partners can grow to a Citrix to be Platinum specialist .

As we close in the fourth quarter, not leave money on the table! Many of our partners are already seeing the benefits of Citrix specialist to be.

"not only are the financial rewards impressive, but the discount enables us in situations, to become more competitive when customers have budget constraints. "- Keith Heller, Vice President of Sales, Advantech Global Services

Citrix specialist Practicum

Typically pursued partner specialization are only one or two requests away to be with the most Citrix practicum.

We know that our partners-experts and many of you have proved it! the Citrix practicum continue to help build not only the trust of customers, but also shows proven technical knowledge and hands-on skills .

If you do not already finished your practicum requirement, reporting up today. The last day , each Citrix practicum for the recording will be 8 December 2015. the remaining 2015 table below is listed.

Citrix specialist Practicum Schedule By the end of 2015

to trade today Step up!

Learn about requirements and benefits of Citrix to visit a specialist and display the new Citrix Partner Incentives deck. As you become the specialization requirements, you track your progress through the manager tool specialist progress.

to register the Citrix Partner Network

Now is a good time to be a Citrix partner. If you are not already, become a partner today.

Stay in touch!

consequences @CitrixSpecial for the latest news on Citrix specializations.

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Have you ever been an "Application Request Form" on your company's Intranet site had to fill out, or open a "request for access to applications" ticket in the company's tracking system? Have you an email asking you get in your organization's network to monitor an application request from one of your employees will be assigned to someone only to approve that now find the ticket manually to grant them access to IT? How long does the end-to-end process usually takes to complete your business? How many people are involved in this manual process in your company (not to mention the development, deployment and management of the access request forms)?

Good news! Citrix Octoblu can now automate this process end-to-end in Citrix Store Font! Users can access applications in storefront request the automated process of applying for approval of the employee's supervisor manages and automatically update the permissions in storefront while Octoblu.

Here is a video of John McBride this automated process to demonstrate in action!

This Octoblu workflow, automating this process end-to-end is as easy as 1.2.3. Here is a step-by-step instructions, this automation to implement in your company

Step 1: .. user requests access to an application directly from Storefront (see below)

this step "triggers" a Octoblu workflow automation that the rest of this process (see below)

managed step. 2 Octoblu manager employee searches and emails them to approve a link or deny access to the application (see below)

Step 3 :. If access is approved, Octoblu updates the Storefront application permissions and emails of the employees will be informed that they now have access to the application (see below).

for further contributions Stay tuned demonstrates how Citrix Octoblu automate workflows with more XenApp, XenDesktop, XenMobile, Share File and NetScaler! In the meantime, call for Octoblu services and logs and start your business processes today automate!