Join the Citrix CTO team as they project forward from where we are today, examining longer term industry and customer trends and how these may impact both current products and future directions.
45. • Personal Computers, mechanical drives, CRTs, etc.
• 10/ 100 mbps speed of everything
• Hardware is pretty expensive ‐> m users per computer
• Year over year incremental growth of Windows code
• OS in full control: hardware, apps, profile, etc.
• Single device per user per location authentication.
• User name and password and two factor authentication
• Human intelligence critical for IT operational excellence
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50. For IT:
• Visibility, security and control over BYOD
• Consistency and availability of experience matters most.
• Policy enforcement as devices cross networks and geos.
• Data getting bigger and bigger
• Devices are becoming more and more personalized.
• AppStores making traditional application management services obsolete
• IT loosing control over devices and the AppStores
• Hardware and software becoming irrelevant comparable to consistency and availability
of experience
• Traditional IT organization not designed to handle diversity and complexity of all of the
above.
For end users:
• Visibility, security and control over BYOD
• Consistency and availability of experience matters most.
• Policy enforcement as devices cross networks and geos.
• Data getting bigger and bigger
• Devices are becoming more and more personalized.
• AppStores making traditional application management services obsolete
• IT loosing control over devices and the AppStores
• Hardware and software becoming irrelevant comparable to consistency and availability
of experience
• Traditional IT organization not designed to handle diversity and complexity of all of the
above.
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52. • Xen is now a Linux Foundation Lab Project.
• Demonstrating Citrix commitment to open source.
• The Xen Project new web site: http://www.xenproject.org/
• Cross industry steering group.
• Citrix still holds the rights to the “Xen” brand.
• Foundation type‐1 hypervisor for Citrix XenClient and Citrix XenServer.
• Robust and highly scalable client and server virtualization platforms.
• The backbone behind Rackspace and Amazon web services.
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56. • Virtualization is not only about decoupling of OS from hardware
• Virtualization = disaggregate across all boundaries
• Hardware, device, app and OS independent serviceability
• Software‐defined networking, storage, servers, etc.
Decoupling / disaggregation across all software and hardware boundaries
Software and Networking moving towards software
XenDesktop: Remote OS and App delivery & execution
XenClient: system management moving outside operating system
XenClient XT: system security moving outside operating system
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64. Good morning everyone, my name is Waheed Qureshi – Chair of the CTO Office.
Today you are going to hear from some of our Citrix CTO’s. We’ll be sharing some of our
thoughts the long term technology trends and how those trends will impact our products.
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