Tech Fusion By Citrix Ready

In this episode of the Citrix Ready Podcast series, Neil explores how technology can empower people and organizations to unlock innovation, engage customers, and be productive—anytime, anywhere.

A2K Partners are creating future of work solutions for right now problems and helping companies thrive in a crisis and economic downturn. I wanted to learn how they are helping organizations retool, optimize, and automate to innovate through any disruption.

A2K Partners is also a Citrix partner. Both companies are leading businesses throughout this turbulent period together and helping them turn challenges into opportunities.

Ray Wolf, CEO, A2K Partners, and Danijela Nandi Senior Product Manager at Citrix Workspace share how organizations can boost productivity, engage consumers, and empower their people to connect, collaborate, and innovate anywhere—on any application, any device, any cloud, at any time.

Fujitsu RunMyProcess and Citrix have been working together on a collaboration that consists of Fujitsu’s low code platform, RunMyProcess, and Citrix Workspace. With this technology partnership, companies can increase efficiency and productivity by utilizing RunMyProcess’ core capabilities of rapid integration of systems (SaaS, on-premise, etc.) and development of custom applications that will route to Citrix Workspace.

The joint solution provides a robust and secure digital workspace where enterprises can transform their employee experience in various phases depending on their transformation journey:

– Integration: Integrate workspace with front and back-office systems
– Automation: Automate workflows across silos to increase productivity
– Co-Creation: Co-Create new applications to transform the way work is done.

Tien Nguyen (Fujitsu RunMyProcess.com), Bryan Janes (Citrix), and Manjunatha Gali (Citrix) join me in a conversation about the employee experience transformation journey. We discuss how employees want a simple, intelligent, and reliable experience that enables them to work when, where, and how they want and be their most productive.

I learn how combining Citrix Workspace with Fujitsu RunMyProcess, companies can quickly and efficiently deliver it across all types of SaaS, on-prem, and even legacy environments.

Today Neil learns more about the Citrix Developer Program. The guests also talk about micro apps, and how Zoho syncs up with Citrix in this domain.

About John Panagulias

John has over 20 years of experience building technology partner programs, strategic alliances, and marketing at multi-billion-dollar technology companies such as Sun Microsystems and VMware. He is currently Director of Developer and Partner Programs at Citrix, where he leads the Citrix Ready Program and the new Developer Program for Citrix Workspace.

Prior to Citrix, John was a Sr. Marketing Manager for Cloud Solutions at VMware. During his time at Sun, he held positions in Market and Business Development, Partner Marketing, and Web Strategy.

About Citrix

Company Profile: Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) is powering a better way to work with unified workspace, networking, and analytics solutions that help organizations unlock innovation, engage customers, and boost productivity without sacrificing security.

With Citrix, users get a seamless work experience, and IT has a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments. Citrix solutions are in use by more than 400,000 organizations, including 98 percent of the Fortune 500.

About Vinay Chandrasekaran:

Vinay navigates complex business and technology relationships by working with senior executives to establish platform standards and set engagement strategy for Zoho and it's technology partners. He also leads the strategy and execution of product-enabling partnerships to fuel Zoho, including identifying new opportunities where partnerships can help accelerate product growth.

With a passion for entrepreneurship, marketing, and technology, Vinay enjoys solving complex business problems with technology solutions; he has held various business development and growth roles at Zoho.

About Zoho:

Founded in 1996, Zoho Corporation is the software company behind three great brands: Zoho, ManageEngine, and WebNMS. With 45+ apps, Zoho covers nearly every major business category, including sales, marketing, customer support, accounting, and back-office operations, and an array of productivity and collaboration tools, Zoho Corporation is one of the world's most prolific software companies.

Zoho is privately held and profitable, with more than 8,000 employees. Zoho is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with international headquarters in Chennai, India. Zoho respects user privacy and does not have an ad-revenue model in any part of its business, including its free products. More than 50 million users around the world, across hundreds of thousands of companies, rely on Zoho every day to run their businesses, including Zoho itself.

For more information, please visit www.zoho.com

Join the Citrix Developer Program - https://www.citrix.com/community/citrix-developer/
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Neil explores how Citrix and Traitware are working together to solve real-world problems for businesses. I hear how customers are leveraging Traitware to provide insights to admins on the key utilization of the apps and tasks users perform within.

Secure login by Traitware® replaces usernames, passwords and PINs. Thereby, TraitWare® reduces identity theft and transaction fraud. More importantly, we improve the user experience. Improved user experience drives adoption of security best practices.

Heath Spencer, CEO-CMO Traitware believes in positive outcomes that work for all involved and no matter what challenge may come his way, his competitive nature will ensure success. He is the former Founder and CEO of Full Throttle Tahoe LLC and has extensive sales and marketing experience with Chase International.

As a Technical Marketing Manager at Citrix, Anil Kumar is responsible for Building and owning an Ecosystem of Networking, Security, and Cloud technology partners. He is also a subject matter expert on the Citrix cloud, networking and security products, and services. Anil is also responsible for developing and managing a test infrastructure in-house/on-prem and on Cloud for proof of concepts and for partner product verifications

Together, we discuss how Traitware is bringing its next-gen authentication to the Citrix Market Place. The Passwordless login is already here and bringing an alternative to credential management and risk. We also discuss how Traitware can substantially increase security while simplifying access to digital and physical resources through the elimination of the need for traditional usernames and passwords.

The guests also share the evolution of Citrix Workspace and how Citrix is helping to power a smarter, more flexible way to work. With credential phishing being tied to traditional credential management, we talk about how Citrix and Traitware are working together to create an alternative future of authentication. 

In this episode of the Citrix Ready Podcast series, Neil explores how Citrix and Apps2Digital are working together to solve real-world problems for businesses. They discuss how customers are leveraging Apps2Digital to provide insights to admins on the key utilization of the apps and the tasks users perform within.

Neil learns how Apps2Digital helps customers with their applications in Citrix environments. App performance, rationalization, packaging, and deployment are just a few topics up for discussion.

From a Citrix standpoint, the host learns more about how this works with micro apps and saas apps and where users can only perform tasks of that app specific to their role.

In this episode of the Citrix Ready Podcast series, Neil explores how Citrix and IGEL Technology are working together to solve real-world problems for businesses.

IGEL delivers powerful unified endpoint management (UEM) software that is revolutionary in its simplicity and purpose-built for the enterprise. The company’s world-leading products, including the IGEL Universal Management Suite™, IGEL OS™-powered thin and zero clients, and all-in-one thin client solutions, deliver a smart and secure endpoint management experience that shifts granular control of thin and zero client devices from the end-user to IT.

Guests

Sagnik Datta is a product leader working for Citrix as a Technical Marketing Manager driving partner route-to-market strategies. With 8+ years in the hi-tech industry, Sagnik led several technical programs to increase the adoption of Citrix products, solutions, and services in horizontal and vertical industries.

Sagnik holds a bachelor’s degree from BITS Pilani and is passionate about technology, spending initial years as a quality assurance engineer, and eventually specializing himself to drive various outbound product managerial and alliance business development functions.

Jim Airdo Vice President of Strategic Alliances at IGEL Technology

Jim Airdo oversees the fast-growing global ISV partner ecosystem for IGEL driving increased confidence for customers using multiple hardware and software solutions to access workspaces in the cloud via the Next-Gen OS from IGEL.

Airdo’s longstanding business philosophy has always included a heavy focus on going to market with partners; thus his “Partner Led” commitment has led to strong, enduring, trusting relationships with worldwide distributors, global systems integrators, and value-added resellers.

Airdo brings over 25 years of technology experience to IGEL and has a wide range of industry experience across workspace management, EUC, virtualization, and cloud computing.

Prior to joining IGEL, Airdo held executive-level sales and business development leadership roles for innovative software technology companies such as FSLogix, Microsoft, AppSense, BMC Software, and he also played a seminal role in the early development of Citrix Systems in building their enviable systems engineering team.

Jim resides in South Florida with his family, where he plays hockey, eats tacos, and serves on the board of Live the Life South Florida and Lauderdale Lead.

Today, I learn how Citrix, Stratodesk, and NComputing formed an alliance that brings truly differentiated solutions to the market. I also learn more about NComputing’s long history with Citrix and their expertise in developing & delivering thin client solutions. I’m also excited to learn why they picked the Raspberry Pi platform to enhanced their thin client portfolio.

As a leading partner to the Citrix Workspace Hub program, today’s guests share a few success stories around about customers adopting the Citrix Workspace Hub solution. We also learn about their challenges and how the solution benefits them. Finally, we get a sneak peek on what is next for NComputing’s Workspace Hub solution.

Roger Cao, Hernan Contreras, Rich Severson and Richard Sah join the conversation.

Every aspect of our lives and work has been transformed by technology. Businesses of all sizes all have an increasing number of devices and applications that play a crucial role in the success of their company. Today I learn how NVIDIA and Citrix perfectly complement each other and are working together to help businesses overcome real-world challenges.

I speak with a member of the Citrix team and one of their partners to learn more about how they are working together to build a better future and more efficient workforce. In this episode, we bust a few myths and explore exactly what Citrix means to businesses. We also discuss the impacts that Citrix App and Desktop Virtualization are bringing to the digital landscape too.

We also learn more about NVIDIA, GPU, and vGPU in a language that everyone can understand. However, the most exciting aspect of today’s conversation is the blossoming relationship between NVIDIA and Citrix. Roberto Moreno, Principal Product Manager for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops joins Konstantin Cvetanov, Sr. Solution Architect at NVIDIA to discuss the following:

• The market trends driving migrations to Windows 10
• Considerations that customers should keep in mind when moving to Windows 10
• How Citrix technology helps deliver the same user experience on a Windows virtual desktop, over the network, as a physical Windows device
• The NVIDIA’s Windows 10 MAP program
• What customers learn more about Citrix, NVIDIA and the value of vGPU for Windows 10.

Roberto Moreno is a Principal Product Manager for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, based out of Florida. Previously a field consultant with 8 years of experience working on large and complex Citrix deployments in many countries and across different business verticals. He is also a distinguished speaker and has presented insightful sessions at Synergy events, as well as a Citrix Certified Instructor.

Konstantin Cvetanov is a Sr. Solution Architect at NVIDIA. He specializes in GPU Virtualization and is squarely focused on increasing adoption and implementation of NVIDIA vGPU solutions among strategic customers. Konstantin is an avid speaker has been presenting to audiences on a range of topics and working with members of the community to increase participation and leadership among peers.

In addition to well-known IT events, Konstantin regularly delivers training to engineering audiences from NVIDIA channel partners helping them acquire the expertise necessary to implement NVIDIA solutions in the field.

Starting in the early 90s, Citrix established themselves as the key solutions provider that pioneered secure remote access, to securing app delivery on different endpoints. In the 2000s, this evolved into enabling enterprise mobility. Here in 2019, the company is on a mission to create a true digital workspace that addresses the pain point/demands of end-users and IT admins.

Our world has been transformed by technology. There are now more devices and applications in the enterprise. So what does this mean for the future of work? Citrix Workspace is aimed at changing the way people work in the new workforce. The goal of the Citrix Workspace and the Workspace with intelligence was unveiled at Citrix Synergy 2019 and ensures end-users are using technologies that make them more productive.

What does this mean for you and your business? I have joined forces with Citrix Ready to interview Citrix partners and learn how together they are building the future of work. On today's episode, I interview Nitin Sharma from Citrix and Trentent Tye from ControlUp.

About Nitin Sharma

Nitin Sharma is a leader in product and solutions marketing strategy at Citrix. He is responsible for designing and executing global, companywide go-to-market strategies for digital workspace solutions. With a passion for solving business problems with technology solutions, he has held various solutions sales and marketing roles—targeting audiences at all levels: executive, line of business, and IT.

Trentent Tye

Trentent Tye was first introduced to Citrix in 2011. Originally an Active Directory administrator, seeing Citrix XenApp in action was immediately engaging and he sought to know more. Applying for a Citrix position with no Citrix experience, Trentent became a Citrix Administrator by promising to become an expert efficiently.

From here, he was introduced to complementary technologies like Microsoft's App-V and UE-V and became a Microsoft MVP in 2015. He achieved the Citrix CTA designation in 2017 to highlight his prowess in Citrix technology and then achieved the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) in 2019. After experiencing the challenges in Health Care and Oil and Gas environments, Trentent joined ControlUp to further his passion for making people's lives better.

About Citrix Ready

Citrix Ready identifies recommended solutions that are trusted to enhance the Citrix Delivery Center infrastructure. All products featured in Citrix Ready have completed verification testing, thereby providing confidence in joint solution compatibility. Leveraging its industry-leading alliances and partner ecosystem, Citrix Ready showcases select trusted solutions designed to meet a variety of business needs.

Through the online catalog and Citrix Ready branding program, you can easily find and build a trusted infrastructure. Citrix Ready not only demonstrates current mutual product compatibility but through continued industry relationships also ensures future interoperability.

About ControlUp

IT management is crowded, but is ready for a revolution. There are literally dozens of products that help monitor or analyze an IT infrastructure. Only ControlUp focuses on what matters most: Being able to easily find the root cause of IT issues, remediate directly from its UI vs. having to rely on several tools, and strategically analyze historical resources, usage, and issues data.