Citrix iForum keynote addresses challenge of increasing mobile workforce

This year`s Citrix iForum Gauteng 2003 will be opened by Stefan Sjostrom, vice-president, Citrix Systems EMEA, who will give delegates insight into the increasingly mobile world of the on-demand enterprise.

During his keynote address Sjostrom will offer insights into how enterprises can meet the security, access and availability challenges of this new era while deriving added value from a productive workforce. "Increasingly," says Sjostrom, "organisations are faced with the spectre of hundreds of applications running on multiple architectures, over often disparate and inconsistent networks.

"The challenge for enterprises today is to pull all of this together to allow all users full-time access to network resources and applications, no matter where they are in the world and no matter what device they are using.

"The good news," says Sjostrom, "is that Citrix answers these challenges today while also laying a solid foundation for tomorrow`s systems."

During his keynote address Sjostrom will offer unique insights into how business today can start building infrastructure to take advantage of the on-demand utility computing models that will be the systems of tomorrow. Sjostrom will also offer insight into how South African businesses can benefit from the Citrix model, irrespective of the bandwidth constraints and restrictions.

"Citrix is all about delivering reliable and secure access no matter what the infrastructure," he says. With over 50 million users worldwide and customer loyalty ratings of more than 90%, Citrix continues to be a key provider of infrastructure services and Sjostrom details why Citrix customers not only remain loyal customers, but why more than 70% of them recommend Citrix to partners and associates.

"Access devices are proliferating," says Sjostrom. "So too are the number of mobile workers. And as people and their roles change the enterprise has to adapt to cater for these new challenges."

But as roles and infrastructures change, he says, it is critical that business is confident that its mobile workers and their data are not compromised.

With a range of products in the CitrixR MetaFrameR Access Suite including Citrix MetaFrame Secure Access Manager and Citrix MetaFrame Password Manager, Citrix is meeting this challenge head-on and is providing unparalleled security and efficiency, says Sjostrom.