Citrix has long supported application packaging platforms such as App-V and, more recently, MSIX and MSIX App Attach.  In this episode, I am joined by Yashu Arora, Sr. Product Manager at Citrix, as we discuss what Citrix has done in the app packaging space and what we support today and in the future.

In this episode, Wendy Gay and Amir Trujillo join me to discuss  Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM). If you are new to WEM or a WEM veteran, you’ll learn what WEM is and how it can help optimize resources, reduce logon times, and improve user experience. You'll also hear about the security features WEM provides, the WEM Tool Hub, and some best practices when deploying WEM in your environment.

In this short episode, I go solo to discuss the new Citrix Community and the newly released community.citrix.com site. I'll cover the new Citrix Community and what has been moved to the new site, including Citrix Tech Zone and Citrix Discussions.

The Citrix Global App Configuration Service (GACS) provides a centralized mechanism for enterprise IT admins to easily configure, distribute, and manage user settings for the Citrix Workspace app across all managed and unmanaged devices. In this episode, I am joined by Prashant Yadav, a Lead Product Manager with Citrix, to discuss the Global App and Configuration Service and how it can help Citrix administrators on a day-to-day basis.

The Citrix Automated Configuration Tool migrates workloads and aids in daily Citrix administration tasks for both on-premises and Cloud. With the Citrix Backup and Restore Feature, a snapshot of your Citrix configurations is always ready on standby. If inadvertent changes arise, choose a backup, select restore, and you’re up and running again with a few clicks. In this episode, I am joined by Yashu Arora, Sr. Product Manager at Citrix, as we discuss the Automated Configuration Tool and the Citrix DaaS Backup and Restore feature upcoming Tech Preview.

Citrix has developed a custom Terraform provider for automating Citrix product deployments and configurations. Using Terraform with the Citrix provider, you can manage your Citrix products via Infrastructure as Code, giving you higher efficiency and consistency in infrastructure management and better reusability in infrastructure configuration. In this episode, Jason Samuel joins me to discuss this new automation strategy and what it means for our customers and partners.

In this episode, I am joined by Bjorn Paulson, Sr. Product Manager with Citrix, to discuss Citrix HDX Audio and the innovations introduced to enhance end-user experiences within Citrix sessions.

In this episode, I am joined by Calvin Hsu, Vice President of Product Marketing at Citrix, as we look back over the past year on the Citrix strategy and focus, the products and features delivered in 2023, and what to expect in 2024 in the areas of product delivery, education, and the Citrix Community (CUGC).

In this episode, Nitin Mehta, Lead Product Manager at Citrix, joins me to discuss Citrix Autoscale and how this highly adopted feature has helped customers achieve significant cost savings in their hybrid cloud deployments.

Running Citrix on Nutanix allows you to deliver a hybrid multi-cloud DaaS solution that is secure, scalable, and affordable. Through the Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and multi-cloud deployments of Citrix DaaS, you can provide secure, on-demand, and elastic access to apps, desktops, and data from any device or location. Join me as I discuss running Citrix on Nutanix with Paul Murray, Principal Product Marketing Manager at Citrix.

In this episode, Citrix Sr. Product Manager Manav Jain joins me to discuss how Citrix has been working behind the scenes to improve your experience with the Citrix Workspace app on mobile and tablet platforms. Whether you need better security, a more immersive experience, or to enable your diverse workforce to get a desktop experience on mobile devices, Citrix has you covered. We want to ensure you are at your best, no matter where you or your team are.

As a Citrix administrator, one of your biggest fears may be having your Citrix environment unavailable for your end users to access their virtual apps and desktops. It is essential to have a resilient Citrix environment where your end users can access their resources in the face of unexpected events or failures. Join me as I discuss how Citrix provides resiliency to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix DaaS with Isaac Stasevich, Sr. Product Manager at Citrix.

Citrix Provisioning, or PVS, has been in the Citrix portfolio since 2006, and since it was first introduced, the technology landscape has seen dramatic changes. Join us as we discuss the updated and new Citrix Provisioning best practices with Uzair Ali.

How are Citrix ITSM and ServiceNow integration helping customers to enhance user experience and Citrix administrator's daily tasks? Join us as we discuss with Wendy Gay, Amir Trujillo, and Antoin Carroll how using features such as Virtual Agent, self-service, monitoring and ticket creation, access to apps and desktops, and more can be accomplished with the Citrix ITSM and ServiceNow integration.

With Citrix’s renewed focus on hybrid environments and Universal subscription, this opens the door for a variety of different environment configurations across both our on-premises and cloud platforms for more customers. Alongside the Citrix platform, hyperscalers such as Azure, AWS, and GCP can deploy Citrix resources with greater agility and scalability than traditional data centers. Join us as we interview Emma Bland, Senior Product Marketing Manager, to talk about her experience as a former consultant and provide guidance on critical architecture design considerations necessary to deploy Citrix virtualization technologies for these scenarios successfully.

How can you enable zero trust while permitting the proper multi-factor authentication that depends on a person’s location, device, connection, and role? That is where nFactor comes in! In this episode, we chat with a couple of product team members about how nFactor can require different authentication factors based on factors such as these.

Image buildout and lifecycle management is a critical part of any delivery infrastructure. The operating systems, applications, and user data all need continuous updates to meet business requirements and security standards. How can enterprise admins effectively tackle this challenge? In this episode we chat with one of our veteran delivery architects on how Citrix App Layering can significantly improve IT efficiency with image lifecycle management activities.

Citrix consulting teams are continually working with the world’s largest organizations on demanding, mission-critical projects across all major verticals and use cases. The pandemic accelerated digital transformation and cloud projects and there were many lessons learned along the way. Lessons on security, performance, and other key topics. In this episode we chat with some of our Americas consulting architects to learn strategies and best practices on what customers should (and shouldn’t) do regarding secure delivery of apps and desktops. Allen Furmanski, Lead Architect and Content Strategist (Host) - @TekGuyAllenSteve Beals, Senior Technical Marketing Architect (Co-Host) - @SRBealsJason Delgado, Solutions Delivery Architect (Guest)https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-delgado-819a0575/  Matthew Greenbaum, Senior Solutions Delivery Architect (Guest)https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-greenbaum/

Unified communications solutions, such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex, and others are a critical tool for any organization. It’s how work gets done day in and day out, but are you delivering it in a secure way that minimizes risk? Join us as we interview James Hsu from Citrix Product Management to talk tech about why optimizing unified communications tools with Citrix is the right approach for your business, the delivery methods Citrix provides, a brief history of our innovative work in this space, and resources for getting started. Connect with us on Twitter:Allen Furmanski: @TekGuyAllenSteve Beals: @SRBealsJames Hsu: @JamesHsu2Go

Over the past decade there has been a lot of changes on how to deliver virtual apps and desktops to end users. From MetaFrame to XenApp to Virtual Apps and Desktops service, Citrix has provided a secure way of delivering remote solutions to end users. So what is managed DaaS? How does this differ from Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service? Citrix managed DaaS provides you with a quick and easy way to deliver virtual desktops to your end users that is fully managed by Citrix. This means that you can deploy virtual apps and desktops in minutes even if you don’t have your own cloud tenant. In this episode of The Click-Down, we invite Steve Beals, Senior Technical Marketing Architect, to talk about managed DaaS. We discuss the differences between on prem solutions, Citrix DaaS, and managed DaaS. We talk about when you should each and the features and functionalities that Managed DaaS has.