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United States : Citrix Extends Software-Defined Workplace Vision [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) This week Citrix announced to more than 100 industry analysts the next stage in its vision for empowering people to work better. Leading analysts from firms such as Forrester, Gartner and IDC listened as Citrix president and CEO Mark Templeton reiterated the company s core belief that work is not a place and highlighted how software-defined storage, datacenters, networks and now the software-defined workplace are helping customers accelerate the path to a mobility-transformed business. Templeton highlighted how innovation around this industry imperative supports the company s 25-year commitment to making IT simpler and people more productive. As IT has rapidly moved through the web, cloud and mobile eras, people, apps and info have become increasingly more mobile. With the trend toward software-defined everything (SDx), the IT function has evolved into a strategic service delivery provider for desktops, apps and data. By extending SDx to the entire workplace, Citrix is helping to reinvent how people work, enabling them to seamlessly communicate and collaborate across any device or location, and gain borderless access to relevant data through contextual security. As a result, meetings, communications, apps, support, desktops, networks and servers become strategic virtual tools for business mobility regardless of the type of cloud or infrastructure from which they originate. Above all, a software-defined workplace transforms traditional physical places and resources into an all-digital virtualized workspace that delivers consumer-like experiences to all users. The software-defined workplace drives both human and business outcomes, resulting in dramatic improvements across multiple dimensions for customers. For the workforce, it means increased productivity and maximized job satisfaction. In fact, recent research from McKinsey Global Institute estimates that optimizing workflows and increasing collaboration via software-based solutions by even 20 percent can save workers up to 200 hours per year. For the workplace, it speeds change by making onboarding easier for both new hires as well as in mergers and acquisitions; optimizes human capital costs by generating higher levels of employee engagement; accelerates leadership insights into work patterns, tools and flows for greater efficiencies; improves disruption and disaster readiness; and reduces carbon footprints of offices, equipment and commuting-related travel. Citrix enables customers to build and operate a software-defined workplace by providing them a complete range of mobile workspace apps and delivery infrastructure solutions that inspire delight and are intelligently integrated, fully secured and always available. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |