XenTegra - The Citrix Session

In this episode of The Citrix Session, host Bill Sutton and guests dive deep into the latest advancements in hardware and device security, with a special focus on Netscaler disk encryption. Our experts, including Jeremy Myers and Todd Smith, discuss how these innovations originated from financial and public sectors and are now setting a standard for security across industries. Discover how encryption not only protects sensitive data but also ensures compliance with stringent regulations. Join us as we explore how these technologies are being implemented to safeguard decommissioned devices and prevent unauthorized data retrieval, making a significant impact in the finance and government sectors.

Building upon the robust security of Linux thin clients, Citrix is thrilled to announce the expansion of its Enterprise Browser offerings to Linux, marking a significant step in our access security platform expansion strategy. This empowers organizations to further secure access to web and SaaS applications, particularly for environments reliant on Linux thin clients, which are already locked down by design and managed by thin client vendors.

This release, currently available as a private tech preview, comes packed with powerful features that are waiting for you to explore. As part of this preview, let’s dive into its advanced capabilities, particularly in the context of enhanced security for Linux thin clients:
Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Bill Sutton
Co-host: Geremy Meyers
Co-host: Monica Griesemer

Looking back on one year post-acquisition and transformation into Cloud Software Group, it’s clear Citrix has undergone significant changes and many people have had a lot of questions. However, we’ve now firmly established ourselves as a company that delivers mission-critical enterprise software at scale, and that has provided the opportunity for the Citrix business unit to refocus on what’s most important: delivering high-performing applications and desktops from any cloud or on-premises data center. Better prioritizing what works best for our customers started with listening to your feedback and using that to inform our product strategy, so we could deliver the solutions that will make the most impact on your IT environment. We are the industry leader in this technology – if you need a reminder, visit our comparison page to see how Citrix stacks up against VMware, as well as all the value we bring to Microsoft solutions.

We started with recommitting to supporting hybrid work environments, flexible infrastructure and vendor choice, and long-term innovation in line with what you need. And we’ve already made progress toward our goals with new releases, more investment in the technologies you need, and more deployment flexibility, which is unmatched by our competitors.
Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Bill Sutton
Co-host: Todd Smith

Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) is one of the two image management technologies available in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix DaaS. Historically PVS has been used to deliver Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop workloads (VDA's) to servers and virtual machines from a single image over the network. However, it can also be used without CVAD/DaaS as a standalone product, physically streaming the OS disk to an endpoint device. These endpoint devices can be “dummy terminals” with no hard drives at all, zero/thin clients, high-end compute and graphics devices, and everything in between. This can include additional use cases for Security and locations with devices without hard drives.

In this episode we discuss the history of PVS and some of its applicable use cases. We also cover some technical aspects of PVS and the benefits enabled by the roll-forward and roll-back of images.

Host: Bill Sutton

Co-Host: Geremy Myers

Co-Host: Todd Smith

This session discusses the following topic and Citrix Blog: App Protection is now GA for on-prem Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Bill Sutton
Guest: Eric Kenney
Guest: Arvind S