Wincourse has been a long time Charlotte Citrix Partner. With how 2020 has unfolded Citrix has come to the forefront for a lot of company’s IT priorities. Citrix is a company and technology founded on remote access to applications and data. They have stood steadfast as one of the leaders in remote work for over 30 years, and as a Citrix Partner, Wincourse has been able to help deliver Citrix solutions to all customers here in Charlotte for more than 15 of those.
Every year Citrix hosts an in-person event called Citrix Summit. They use the opportunity to share announcements around additions and innovations to their technology. It is also a great networking event to mindshare with customers and other Citrix Partners. Wincourse, as a Citrix Partner and Service Provider, gains a lot of value at Citrix Summit. It has contributed to how we are able to deliver Citrix so efficiently for our customers.
Summit 2020 looked a little different. This year they announced the Citrix Digital Summit Series. They had 3 consecutive weeks of webinars around a variety of topics. As a Citrix Partner, we were excited to watch them as they were released. The webinars are still available online, but if you want to talk to us, we will be glad to talk you through any announcements.
Here were our main Takeaways:
It’s your choice when it comes to Cloud
Citrix has always had a great working relationship with Microsoft, but they have certainly expanded their capabilities in AWS and Google Cloud Platform. Citrix CEO David Henshall did, however, have a 1-on-1 conversation with CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella during the “Workspace Summit” sharing a lot of wins that the collaboration has brought about between the two companies.
Besides showcasing their partnerships with these major cloud providers, Citrix talked about moving to the cloud at your own pace. And they highlighted some of the promise around innovations in automation in machine learning that are available in their cloud offering. We’ve mentioned it before in other blogs, journeys to the cloud can be tedious, and as a Citrix Partner, we know how to navigate the way and make the solution customized to the size of what your business needs.
There is a new way to work
With the boom in remote work, Citrix certainly has done their research when it comes to the benefits of enabling it at a company. Citrix really leaned into how remote work increases employee productivity and overall well-being. They explained how their technology can lower costs of real estate, employee onboarding, and reducing a company’s environmental impact. As a Charlotte Citrix Partner, it is wonderful to see Citrix look at how their software impacts so much more than technology. And through Wincourse’s partnership we can customize Citrix to enable remote work and reduce costs, but better yet, contribute to the greater good by making work easier.
Security will always be a concern
But that is okay if you have the right technologies in place and keep them up to date. As remote work has expanded, so have companies’ IT perimeters. And when something expands so quickly, there are bound to be holes and exploits for attackers, so it is important to stay diligent. Citrix must have read our blog about VPN flaws, because they discussed the topic AND how BYOD was a way that companies addressed remote work, but it has its security flaws as well. Citrix announced updates and innovations around their virtual Application Delivery Controllers (formerly Citrix Netscaler) in the cloud to address some of those concerns. We recommend talking to a partner like Wincourse to branch your different networking solutions together and safeguard your company’s network.
We hope to get back to Summit in 2021, and we will wait to hear what Citrix’s plan is for the new year. Here at Wincourse we are a proud Citrix Partner, and we will keep delivering the technology for our customers to enable that peace of mind that comes when you know your company’s IT is safe, its delivered efficiently, and your employees enjoy what they do. Let us know how we can help deliver Citrix for you!