A new Xen in the Citrix family – XenDesktop and XenApp have a sibling!

Citrix introduced the world to XenMobile MDM, a new product that provides industry-leading mobile management capabilities, and the Mobile Solutions Bundle, which comprises of XenMobile MDM and CloudGateway, to deliver a complete enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution. While these new solutions offer fantastic capabilties – and the Zenprise team have done an amazing job over the last few years creating a leadership position – I believe customers will be most interested in watching the solutions earn their “Xen stripes.” That is, they will be eagerly watching how XenMobile integrates with ShareFile, GoToMeeting, Podio, Netscaler and of course, XenDesktop and XenApp.

Naturally, the integration points with XenDesktop and XenApp hit closest to home for me, as they are the primary solutions that I look after from a Product Marketing perspective. Our customers have been using XenDesktop and XenApp to enable mobile work styles since the days when a mobile device simply meant a laptop! But now we we’ve expanded our reach with Citrix Receiver to include delivering Windows apps to all sorts of tablets and smartphones – in fact, some 3 billion devices are capable of getting their Windows apps “on the go.” However, as wide-ranging as our capabilities have been, there has always something missing from the picture; we could securely get Windows apps to the device, but we couldn’t help secure the device itself. Now, with XenMobile MDM and the Mobile Solutions Bundle, XenDesktop and XenApp customers can get an end-to-end system for mobility down to the endpoint. For current Citrix customers, this is a piece of the puzzle that they have been waiting for. It’s the first of its kind in the industry, and unlike other “solutions,” it’s ready to go TODAY (well, on Monday, Feb. 25)…

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