Citrix Synergy Keynote Announcements

May 22, 2013

Citrix Synergy Keynote Announcements

Written by Brian Ducharme

Some of the major announcements that came out of today's keynote centered around 3 areas: XenDesktop, Xen Mobile and FileShare, bringing last years vision of Project Avalon to fruision.

Citrix Innovation Awards Finalists:

Miami Children's Hospital
Essar - India
USP - Brazil

Winner: University of Sao Paulo

Announcements:

XenDesktop 7
XenDesktop Player for Mac
XenMobile
FileShare

Xen Desktop 7 is the first release related to Project Avalon

Automated install and Deploy
2 Consoles - XenDesktop Studio and XenDesktop Director
HDX Insight - End-to-end monitoring for HDX traffic
Included in XenDesktop 7:
- Workload Provisioning
- App-by-App publishing
- Windows app migration
HDX Mobile:
- HD Video over 3G
- 100% increase in WAN efficiency
- Smooth Scroll, gestures and pop-up keyboard
- Mobile SDK for Windows Apps - Integrate with 1 line of code or use WROX wrapper

Extreme SaaS-fication from NVIDIA:

Demo from Jen-Hsun Huang - CEO & Co-Founder, NVIDIA

Liquify, 3D and Oil paint filters where demo'd in order to show the responsiveness

Full rendered Audi in 3D app (RTT DeltaGen)
Adobe Premier realtime render of 4K video
Virtualized Desktop running AutoCad
Siemens TeamCenter Visualization Professional
Leap Motion Visualizer using finger gesture recogonition

XenDesktop 7 Editions:

VDI Edition
App Edition
Enterprise Edition
Platinum Edition

Available in June 2013

XenMobile:

Provision security, apps and data to mobile devices
Seamless Windows integration
- Integrate any windows app
- easily connect to XenDesktop
Worx Enroll - Self-service device registration
Worx Home - Install enterprise apps on home devices
Demo of XenMobile Worx Home on iPhone 5
Support from GoTo Assist integration
Works on all mobile devices (iOS, Android and Windows)
MDX Technology integration for security
Included Native Applications:
- WorxMail
- WorxWeb
- ShareFile
Demo of Apps demonstrated the issolation between Personal Apps and Corporate Apps
- Demo'd on iPhone, Android phone and iPad
ShareFile has ability to edit documents from mobile devices (including PDF's)

WorxApp Gallery coming soon

NetScaler New Features:

Cloud-scale
Scale up, Scale In, Scale Out
- MPX - Physical Price Performance
- VPX -Virtual
- SDX - Mutil-Tenant
SDX Now open to 3rd Party developers

Work Better. Live Better. was the key message that resonated through out the keynote.

Watch Live: live.citrixsynergy.com/losangeles/sessions/day1keynote

Last modified on May 22, 2013

Published in Citrix Synergy 2013

Brian Ducharme

Brian is an event reporter for VMBlog.com and an expert in virtualization/cloud techonlogies. In his 15+ years of experience in the virtualization/cloud field he has interviewed hundreds of companies, users and executives. Brian has been an active member of the NEVMUG (NEVTUG) since 2006 and attends both vmworld and Citrix Synergy every year. Brian works full time as a Senior Software Engineer for Liquidware Labs.

Brian also spent 5 years as the managing editor of Virtual Strategy Magazine, an online magazine focused on the virtualization industry and has been with vmblog since 2011. He has a background in Computer Graphics, Marketing, Programming, Web Design, Mobile App Development, Linux Administration and is an active member of the NHJS group.