The importance of access in the modern business was a recurrent theme at the annual Citrix iForum conference in Midrand yesterday, as several new and soon-to-be released application delivery solutions were showcased.
The way organisations provide access to information is increasingly becoming a key differentiator, regional Citrix VP Stefan Sj"ostr"om told customers and partners attending the event.
"One of the biggest challenges today is being able to move work to optimal locations without compromising performance, security and cost," he said.
Citrix SA country manager Chris Norton identified complexity on both the supply and demand of the business as being the biggest challenge.
"Complexity drives cost and, therefore, business needs to look at how to reduce the complexity of connecting heterogeneous IT infrastructures to end-users with an increasing variety of mobile devices," he said.
According to Norton, eliminating complexity through treating access as a strategic component of the network was the only way organisations would succeed in reducing risk and the cost of change, while increasing agility and quality of service.
"Provisioning information to users as and when they need it is key to maintaining a competitive advantage in the face of inevitable globalisation," said Sj"ostr"om.
It is this vision of the future, he explained, that has driven Citrix product development, as well as its acquisition policy in the past two years.
Since March 2004, Citrix has acquired five companies with the aim of rounding out the company`s access platform. The two most recent acquisitions of Teros and Reflectent focus on firewalling individual Web-based applications and improving end-user accountability.
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