So You Missed Citrix Synergy 2013 Al Solorzano Principal Architect Agile360 – a Division of Entisys Solutions

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Agenda Synergy Theme XenDesktop 7 XenApp 6.5 FP2 EdgeSight NetScaler XenMobile Exhibit Hall Tour of interesting companies

2012 Strategy Deliver “Any” Apps & Desktops

2013 Strategy Deliver & Manage “Any” Apps & Desktops & Web Inter-app Controls App Store Apps & Desktops & Web Inter-app Controls App Store Devices Configure Provision Secure Devices Configure Provision Secure Data Share & Sync Secure Edit Data Share & Sync Secure Edit

XenDesktop 7

XenDesktop 5.6 VDI Edition EnterprisePlatinum

XenDesktop 7 VDI Edition App Edition EnterprisePlatinum

2 Consoles

Enhanced and Simplified Delivery Machine Creation Server for Server and Desktop OS workloads Discovery and Publishing of applications Integrated App-V 5 Support

XenDesktop 7 – HDX Mobile HDX Mobile – Keyboard/Combo box detection – Access to GPS Radio and Camera functions – Smooth bidirectional HD Audio/Video – Multi-Touch – HDX Mobile SDK – Network utilization designed for 3G/4G networks

Automated App Analysis AppDNA is now included with Platinum edition Analyze applications for OS and virtualization compatibility Simple Green-Amber-Red Dashboard Remediation recommendations

HDX Local Seamless Apps Designed for apps that can’t be migrated – Non-Secure web browsers – DVD burners – Video Collaboration

Provisioning Server 7 Stream Windows 2012 and Windows 8 Still better density than MCS Faster catalog creation (no more cloning template VM write cache disks) Microsoft SCVMM for Hyper-V 3.0 Integration

Going, Going… Gone Citrix will no longer be moving these products into this or newer versions (deprecated features/products) – Citrix Application Streaming – Single Sign On (AKA Password Manager) – SmartAuditor – Shadow Taskbar Citrix End of Life Product Matrix

XenDesktop 7 No more IMA database (Database availability is critical to uptime of this environment) Support for Windows 2012 and Windows 8 (and Windows 2008 R2, XP/Vista/7) Updated “StoreFront” for self service applications (No database required) Client-Less Receiver (HTML 5 web based receiver) Enhanced Remote PC catalog management and hardware acceleration Expected Release Date in June

XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack 2

Focus of XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack 2 Experience Acceleration Compatibility Performance

Focus of XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack 2 Experience Acceleration Compatibility Performance

Focus of XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack 2 Experience Acceleration Compatibility Performance HW virtualization of GPU OpenGL Acceleration

Focus of XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack 2 Experience Acceleration Compatibility Performance AppDNA (Platinum Only) Lync 2013 Optimization Pack SCCM 2012 connector Hyper-V 3.0 Support

Focus of XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack 2 Experience Acceleration Compatibility Performance Up to 4x Faster Downloads/Uploads??? Expected Release Date in June

EdgeSight… Where did you go?

EdgeSight moves into Director Troubleshooting Dashboard Trends Filters Help Desk view No more EdgeSight Agent

New Features

But I had XD/XA Platinum Edition? Director only has Real-time data (7 days) of data… need data around longer? The answer is XenDesktop Platinum. Platinum will allow for up to 1 year of data (default will still be 90 days) Can be integrated with NetScaler Insight (NetScaler Platinum feature) for Network Analysis of ICA/HDX packets Hey… at least no more Agent or SQL Reporting services

NetScaler

HW refresh High end model now supports 120 Gbps / 560K SSL transactions per second (2048- bit certificates) Entry level and midrange models were updated at the end of 2012 (55x0 and the 8x00 line, replacing the 5500 and the 7500/9500 line) Access Gateway is going EOL 2014 or 2016 depending on model NetScaler 7000/9010 are already EOL

10.1 Features New UI Enhancements for XenMobile and StoreFront 2.0 Faster content delivery with SPDY (lightweight HTTP processing)

10.1 Features NetScaler Insight (HTTP/S and ICA/HDX) Simpler multi-tenancy with traffic domains DO NOT DEPLOY FOR ACCESS GATEWAY YET!

XenMobile

What “Mobility” feels like for users

What “Mobility” should feel like

Trying to find the right balance Device Security Compliance Corporate/IT Security User Access Multiple Devices Native device experience

Introducing XenMobile Provision, Configure, Secure and Decommission of mobile devices (BYOD or corporate issued)

XenMobile MDM Edition App Edition Enterprise

XenMobile MDM edition Control peripherals Jailbreak/Rooted detection Wipe devices Enforce encryption/passcodes Configure device and networks Update devices Push apps Locate devices Reporting

XenMobile App Edition Native device application specific Micro-VPN

XenMobile App Edition Secure Web Browser to access internal web sites without need for VPN

XenMobile App Edition Secure , calendar and contacts within a native device experience client

High Level Architecture NetScaler Gateway with StoreFront – End user interface and security MDM Server – Device enrollment and management App Controller – Application packaging and management

NVIDIA GRID

The Last Mile of Session Remoting

GPU Pass-through Hardware virtualization of GPU – 1 desktop per 1 GPU – 2H 2013: Expect Virtual GPU (Many desktops per 1 GPU) Low-Latency Remote Display Maximum User Density Designed for Designers, Healthcare Providers, Engineers and more

K1 and K2 cards Grid K1 – 4 Entry level Kepler GPUs, 768 CUDA Cores, 16GB of RAM – 4 desktops per card, 3 cards per server Grid K2 – 2 High-end Kepler GPUs, 3072 CUDA Cores, 8GB of RAM – 2 desktops per card, 2 cards per server Demo - Citrix and NVDIA Video at Synergy

Miscellaneous

Data Mobility ShareFile for secure document sharing, viewing and editing Full support for cloud or on- premise storage Now supports access to Microsoft SharePoint and network drives Microsoft Azure support

Desktop Player for Mac Synchronize to local VM instance on Mac No Windows XP Support Tech Preview coming June/July

Exhibit Hall Tour Nutanix – Purpose built compute and storage resources within the same 2U unit for Virtualization and VDI projects. PrinterLogic – A company that can assist in tricky printing configs like location based printing with location based default printers, can also eliminate print servers.

Exhibit Hall Tour ObserveIT Systems – Replacement for Citrix SmartAuditor – Record or watch live sessions (ICA/HDX, RDP, PCoIP, Unix, Windows, Desktops, etc.) for troubleshooting, compliance and change control – Can be used on desktop or Windows/Unix server infrastructure – “A picture is worth a thousand logs”

What couldn’t I get to??? Citrix Synergy will be in Anaheim again Migration paths to XenDesktop 7 (coming soon from Citrix support) Licensing migration to XenDesktop 7 (coming soon from Citrix sales) Provisioning Server 7 updates to managing/updating the image In depth MDM discussion

Calls to Action Take the survey ( ed shortly) for a chance to win a $100 gift card Review your mobile device strategy and see if XenMobile can either solve your device management problems or enhance your application delivery model XenApp and XenDesktop Platinum clients – Learn more on how Citrix AppDNA can improve application compatibility testing and remediation

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