What is VPN and How does it Works

The June edition of Americas Channel Partner News had a spotlight on Nancy Binnie and Public Sector Channel team.

"Nancy Binnie brings more than 20 years in the public sector market, including the channel, sales, and Citrix management experience. In 2012, Nancy was appointed as a "Executive to watch" in the VAR business Top Executive Channel and CRN as one of the "100 people you do not know, but should."

as a director of public Channel Sales, Nancy develops the go-to-market strategy and leading the activities of the Public Sector Channel Sales team. The Citrix team in the public sector covers the United States and works with VAR, LAR, Disti, technology and platform partners by focusing on vertical markets state and federal government "

Nancy Binnie:

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If you are a partner focusing on the sector "100 you Don 't Know, but should." public, federal and / or state government and want to work with the public sector team, please go to Nancy nancy.binnie@citrix.com

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is seen here (left to right): Rick Snyder (VP, Global Partners, Cisco), Sunil Potti (VP & GM NetScaler, Citrix), John Chambers (president, general manager, Cisco), Steve Blacklock (Senior Director, Global Strategic Alliances, Citrix), Blair Christie (SVP & CMO, Cisco) .

Blog Entry: Steve Blacklock (@BlacklockSteve) Senior Director, Global Strategic Alliances, Citrix

As I make my own travel home today, I think about how life is a journey and how strategic alliances are also a journey. (! BTW, as for those of Cisco LIVE this week, "Journey" was also "Journey" during the customer appreciation event - great party)

The Cisco-Citrix Strategic Alliance has developed tremendous momentum over the past few years, but I specifically want to highlight our recent announcements and progress.

last October after having achieved remarkable success with our desktop virtualization together, we announced a significant expansion of our Cisco Alliance mobile workstyles, cloud orchestration and networking cloud. At the time, we had great confidence in our ability to achieve the vision of this expanded collaboration. Last week, we did just that, reaching a milestone with the announcement of Citrix NetScaler 1000V - available only from Cisco. NetScaler 1000V is a new technology integrating Citrix NetScaler delivery control applications (ADC) technology into the Cisco Unified Fabric cover network services portfolio and will be available in Q3 of 2013.

While we have officially announced the NetScaler Cisco 1000V with it a week ago, we had fantastic extra coverage and interest during Cisco Live! this week. Well done and thank you to David Yen, VP and GM, Data Center Group, who shared the details of our alliance and the new Citrix NetScaler technology 1000V as part of its updated open on the Data Center Strategy Cisco.

on the Citrix booth, interest in the NetScaler 1000V was very strong, including customers, while requesting additional details partners and analysts. Most were impressed with the level of cooperation that we have done and wanted more information to take with them. Many conversations broadened the discussion on other areas of our cooperation.

also highlighted the Cisco Live this week were most other areas of our growing alliance, including BYOD solutions, innovations Desktop Virtualization and Cloud Services Including CloudPlatform on UCS.

A big thank you to John Chambers, Blair Christie and Rick Snyder to come see for Citrix this week on the show floor. I enjoyed the discussion and personal business, and I am very grateful for our collaboration.

My travel trips are made for a little while now (summer is here!) ... But here at Citrix, we're certainly not bringing this great alliance to market with major innovations! I can still hear Journey last night ... "Do not stop believing ..."

So ... what do you want to see next to Cisco and Citrix?

You have 10, 20, 30 or 40 load balancers underutilized? Why not group multiple services on a single platform that reduces the machine sprawl, but at the same time, provides you with high performance - NetScaler style! Ask your contact Citrix to provide a (3) year ROI / TCO analysis report showing the benefits of deploying NetScaler SDX!

Citrix NetScaler SDX is a goal -Constructed service delivery platform tailored especially for workloads in data centers and operating conditions

features and characteristics that make an ideal NetScaler SDX service delivery platform for the data center environment are as follows :.

• The next-generation architecture to deliver fully virtualized NetScaler instances totally isolated running on a single platform of the device. NetScaler SDX provides full resources and isolation of the network, for example (rather than by device) and high availability instance (rather than per device) version control and management lifecycle.
• scalable architecture that allows NetScaler SDX appliances to provide the same HTTP throughput than comparable devices NetScaler MPX.
• Each instance is a NetScaler environment in itself.
• The new generation of architecture provides the foundation for a consolidation of adjacent service delivery capabilities such as WAN optimization services, network security and desktop delivery.
• A single control plane provides unified provisioning, monitoring and management of all instances.
• A benefit of transparent fabric overlay network services. NetScaler instances running on NetScaler SDX can be bridged to instances of NetScaler VPX and NetScaler MPX.

true multi-tenancy

NetScaler SDX provides a platform to run multiple independent instances of key services to meet the special needs of business units, critical applications and customer service providers. Enterprise and service provider customers to take control over their dedicated distribution infrastructure, including services such as load balancing, security and application acceleration. Complete isolation client traffic helps satisfy security and compliance mandates and eases operational administration through version control and management lifecycle.

Performance without compromise

The NetScaler SDX platform combines the power of NetScaler MPX hardware with advanced virtualization and faster I / O support for the overall performance of up to 50 Gbps. A single NetScaler instance can be sized to provide up to 24Gbps to meet the needs of application business tenants. The virtual architecture protects system resources to optimize application delivery functionality, and ensure that individual NetScaler instances do not affect the performance of any other SLA instance.

flexible licensing and configuration

NetScaler SDX offers flexible licenses to meet both the business and requirements of service providers. According to the platform, the basic solution comprises 2 or 5 independent NetScaler instances and provides a growth path for double, triple or even run up to 8x the basic number of concurrent instances. The Pay-As-You-Grow popular Citrix licensing program enables customers adapt the performance of the solution to meet future business needs while protecting their initial investment NetScaler.

Simple Management

unified provisioning, monitoring and managing multiple concurrent NetScaler instances through a single control plane streamlines multi-tenant operations. Not only is each NetScaler instance managed independently, but each NetScaler can run a different software version and support independent IP addressing schemes to preserve isolation from end to end application traffic between clients.

Supporting datacenter consolidation

Enterprise data centers migrate to virtual architectures that share resources among business units and individual applications. In the process, organizations consolidate network services and the collapse of several network devices in a single platform, scalable, which can support the needs of data centers. NetScaler SDX is the ideal platform to enable this service consolidation within the virtual datacenter while continuing to maintain the isolation of necessary traffic and levels of performance and service expected by application owners.

provide multi-tenancy in the right direction

virtual datacenters provide key services to effectively deliver to individual tenants such as internal business units, owners of individual applications and customers external service providers. NetScaler SDX satisfies the multi-tenant requirements by:

• Running NetScaler totally independent case with separate policies to provide all the capabilities of NetScaler
• Provide complete isolation of traffic between clients to meet compliance requirements
• Supporting different versions of the NetScaler software to meet the life cycle needs of each customer
• maintain separate IP addressing for easy deployment in virtual data centers

maintaining the isolation of tenant without compromise

NetScaler SDX flow and traffic of different customers remain separate data paths to the hardware layer, enabling consolidation benefits cover security zones for without spreading devices. hardware virtualization bypasses and replaces traffic classification based on the software / sorting methods, allowing administrators to maintain L2 separation without the typical latency associated with the virtualization of data center workloads. independent processing stacks and routing segregation of traffic and network information to support multiple tenants isolated on a single platform.

Enabling cloud datacenter build-out

The companies leveraging cloud infrastructures need the ability to provide networking capabilities -Request to meet the needs of dynamic applications. As applications move from the corporate data center to a cloud environment, much of the application delivery functionality supporting the application must also migrate. NetScaler SDX distributes flexible NetScaler application delivery capabilities across multiple applications running in the cloud through a common control plane while offering complete reliability and performance of NetScaler hardware.

Phone 8 Windows devices are gaining popularity as a personal and professional asset. With XenMobile, you can help your users get the most out of Outlook, Office Mobile, and the growing list of business productivity applications for Windows Phone 8.

XenMobile 8.5, just released, may help configure Exchange email accounts, install enterprise certificates, and identify strategies to access code and device storage when registering their devices. It also configures an enterprise application store, a new application called Worx Home for Windows Phone 8. Settings, policies and applications are adapted to the role of each user.

Worx Home is the only place users can go to find and install the company and recommended Windows Store applications. enterprise applications are applications that are signed by a company certificate so they are only available to registered users. Worx Home also allows users to quickly find the productivity and collaboration of the Windows Store applications with the greatest value.

If users change roles, you can selectively remove their company profile and wipe all of their business applications without impacting applications and personal data. If a device is lost, you can delete user internal storage of the device, including all personal content, including applications, emails, contacts and multimedia files -. Essentially resetting the device to factory settings

XenMobile With 8.5 there is a solution for employee on-boarding, the protection of information, and get your users applications that improve their ability to work and play anywhere.

for details, see Windows Phone 8 Managing Configurations on eDocs.

Share your experiences and reactions to this new capability.

David Coleman
Director of Product Management

It's that time again! Citrix Partner Uproar is back! This month I will bring you current topics and ads around XenMobile 8.5, VDI-in-a-Box 5.3, XenServer 6.2 and more!

For those of you just tuning in a hubbub is the sound of many voices, and that is what we aim in this new series of blog with news and information interest for Citrix channel partners. I'm Blake Cotton, a member of the team Citrix WW Channel Marketing, and I invite you to join the conversation through social media channels. Although the topics I'll cover each month are also presented in Citrix Partner News , a blog format is more interactive than a newsletter. It gives each of you the opportunity to express your opinions, ask questions and pass on information to colleagues or clients.

Help your customers to scale services through branches, data centers and clouds with the simplicity and security with this important release of Citrix CloudBridge.

Citrix has recently announced new CloudBridge offers product family that combines products and CloudBridge Branch Repeater in a unified platform. With the availability of CloudBridge 7.0, the value of this integrated offering becomes a reality

Some key enhancements provided by the new version.

• Improved visibility in the use of bandwidth, traffic acceleration and by applying shape traffic layout provided by a better interface for management and reporting
• Tuning the broadcast video by adding video capabilities caching. These video broadcast enhancements will greatly benefit XenDesktop deployments that use the customer made video.
• CloudBridge 4000 and 5000 series devices offer the ability to operate safely and effectively in Amazon Web Services. This combined functionality defines family of products apart from competitors, who must now position several devices to provide the same functionality.

For more information, please review the success Kits updates or contact CloudBridge marketing team.

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When users add applications in Citrix Receiver StoreFront ensures these applications written follow from device to device , providing a consistent roaming experience. Previous versions of StoreFront used a Microsoft SQL Server database to store details of applications the user subscriptions. StoreFront 2.0, however, does not require a separate external database, which makes it much easier for you to deploy and support.

Subscription Service In Store

In StoreFront 2.0, the subscription data to a user application are automatically stored locally and spread to other StoreFront server in the group by the service store subscription. The service provides replication, persistent storage for app subscriptions without the cost and complexity of an external database. The magazine subscription service is created and configured for you automatically when you install StoreFront and requires no administration.

StoreFront uses Extensible Storage Engine Windows, the technology that Microsoft Access and Microsoft Exchange authorities to create a set of data store that saves and subscription data index of the application. These data are contained in the server group on a peer-to-peer basis. This removes the subscription database application as a single point of failure in a deployment and makes StoreFront more resistant to temporary loss of communication within a server group. Because the data store is automatically replicated to all servers in a deployment StoreFront, you do not need to make special arrangements to save. Well, you can export the application subscription data from the data store if you want to make your own external backups.

Sync application subscriptions across groups of servers

If your users can access the same applications in the same stores in different groups of StoreFront server, you might want to synchronize subscriptions applications between stores in different deployments. For example, if you have deployed separate StoreFront serving offices in America and Europe, the same stores in each server group maintain separate data store Application subscription. Thus, a US user visits the office and forestry in Europe in the European bank for the first time would have to resubscribe to the applications they had subscribed in the American store. You can provide a seamless experience to the mobile users by synchronizing app subscriptions between American and European stores.

In previous versions of StoreFront, app subscriptions user synchronization between server groups may be difficult, as it involved replicating SQL Server databases. But with StoreFront 2.0, the magazine subscription service makes it much easier. Simply configure periodic synchronization subscriptions to applications between stores within a set time; at midnight every day or every 12 hours, for example. More information on the configuration of the subscription synchronization between an application server groups StoreFront is available on eDocs.

Upgrading to 2.0 StoreFront and lose the database

If you use an older version of StoreFront, you're probably now asking what will happen to the existing applications of all subscriptions your users when you upgrade. Well, the upgrade process StoreFront 2.0 includes a mechanism to transfer subscriptions to existing applications from the SQL Server database to store the subscription service. Once you have updated all StoreFront server in your server group, you can migrate the subscription data of the application users for individual stores or for all stores in a deployment with a single click in the Citrix StoreFront management console. More information on the upgrade is available on eDocs.

By removing the dependency on SQL Server in StoreFront 2.0, we have simplified your experience administering and improving the resilience capacity adding that also allow you to provide a seamless roaming experience for your users. So why not update your StoreFront or Web interface to existing deployment Storefront 2.0? It is a perfect time to make the transition to the cloud era!