Citrix Synergy SF 2012 – Keynote announcements

I’m still fully excited about all the announcements Mark Templeton and Brad Peterson made during the first Citrix Synergy keynote tonight (for me at least). So here’s a small list of the main announcements made (based upon my own tweets):

• GoToAssist now available for Android and for FREE

• A new Thin Client: Wyse Xenith 2 (40% faster, more secure, HD, multi monitor, WAN optimized)

• VDI-in-a-Box now comes with XenDesktop license upgrades
• VDI-in-a-Box is the winner of the ‘best of Interop Awards 2012’

• Citrix AppDNA 6.1 is launched (read more about it on Citrix Blogs: http://bit.ly/KQTII4)

• VirtualComputer (and NXTop) is now part of Citrix
• XenClient Enterprise Edition wil lbe released in Q2 (that’s THIS quarter) and is now part of the XenDesktop Platinum license

• VDI-in-a-box news – Personalized VDI for less than a PC Tech Preview http://bit.ly/KQUchg

• The Nominees for the Innovation award are Suncorp, IDC Frontier, and Education Services of America.
• And the award goes to ………….. #drumroll ………………… ESA

• Mark Templeton introduces a new word: life slicing (to explain how work and private life and intertwined and time is sliced in parts that switch between work and private life)

• GoToMeeting with HD Faces now available on iPad

• Podio is now part of Citrix
• Podio is the tooling for what happens between meetings (=workflow)
• Tommy Ahlers (VP of Social Collaboration) is invited on stage to show the Podio demo
• Podio has a yammer/facebook look & feel and looks very user friendly to support collaboration and integrates with ShareFile
• Podio has GoToMeeting integration as well! … and integration with Receiver to add application shortcuts to your workspace and start them in a webbrowser tab
• Podio sure looks very promising for collaboration 2.0 🙂  and to quote Mark T “Not just yammer about work, but just get it done together”
• Podio is free for teams up to 5 people

• ShareFile with StorageZones (control where you’re data is stored both in public & private clouds)
• Jesse Lipson is invited on stage to show the ShareFile demo
• You can download ShareFile StorageZones yourself at http://www.citrix.com/sharefile/storagezonestechpreview
• ShareFile with StorageZones is about iCloud for Business!
• Receiver with Follow-Me-Data is shipped in July

• Cloud Gateway 2 – new content controllers for mobile and data
• Brad Peterson, Chief Demo Officer, is invited on stage to show the CloudGateway 2 demo
• Brad shows use a great new feature, introducing the iJacket, with custom made pockets for the many devices with different form factors
• Cloud Gateway 2 supports native (secure) connections to intranet sites from your Receiver (no published internet browser required!)
• Cloud Gateway 2 offers a unified storefront for mobile, Web, SaaS and Windows applications through so called content controllers that are added to Cloud Gateway

• XenDesktop Flexcast now supports Remote PC option
• Brad returns to stage to demo the new HDX enhancements with a very smooth running CAD application running on the latest gen 3 i7 Intel processor hypervisor VM with a dedicated GPU
• Brad’s Windows 8 demo on the Samsung Slate with Citrix Receiver almost makes you cross over to the dark side, it sure is looking slick
• Brad continues to show the latest HP Zero Client, consuming only 13 watts by using PoE (Power over Ethernet) and also has HDX -on-a-chip

• CloudBridge is almost here as well, shipping in June to offer a simple way to connect your data center to a cloud provider

• Citrix CloudPlatform powered by Apache CloudStack is available today

• And how do you deliver all these services? Right with NetScaler 10
• NetScaler offers Scale Up (pay-as-you-grow), Scale In (delivery services consolidation) and Scale Out (add & go clustering)

• One more thing … project Avalon, delivering Windows Apps & Desktops as a true cloud service
• project Avalon = CloudStack + XenApp/XenDesktop + Cloud-style Service Orchestration (read all about it on Citrix Blogs)

Or just go to the Citrix Synergy 2012 Newsroom to read all the official announcements & blogs yourself.

You can watch the Citrix Synergy SF 2012 keynote on CitrixTV: http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/5709.