Distributed computing is dead. This was the assertion made by Citrix Systems president and CEO Mark Templeton, when unveiling the company's cloud strategy, at the Citrix Synergy Conference, in Barcelona.
In a keynote address, Templeton announced a slew of cloud products catering for personal, private and public clouds. He noted that the company's focus is on cloud computing, because “it is through cloud computing that everything is changing.
“The world is heading towards the post-PC era, and we can refer to this era as the 'three PC era', which consists of personal cloud, private cloud and public cloud. After this, there would be the 'cloud era', and this era needs radical new thinking from businesses,” he said.
Among the product announcements made by Templeton is the Citrix CloudGateway, which he said is the industry's first unified service broker that aggregates, controls and delivers Windows, Web, SaaS and mobile apps to any user, on any device.
He also noted that the CloudGateway product line empowers end-users with self-service access to all of their business apps, and gives IT unmatched control over apps and data from public cloud environments, accelerating enterprise adoption of cloud and mobility.
“CloudGateway will be available for tech preview this month, and will be generally available in the next three months,” he said.
“We've created Citrix CloudGateway as the industry's first unified service broker that gives end-users the mobility and flexibility they crave, and enables IT to regain control over all of their enterprise and cloud-based apps and data.”
According to Templeton, consumerisation is driving IT to deliver a mix of applications to a variety of user-owned devices. At the same time, he added, corporate IT is under increasing pressure to take advantage of a vast array of innovative and cost-efficient services from external cloud and hosting providers.
Templeton also unveiled the company's new 'Follow-Me-Data Fabric', which he said will make it easy for third-party developers and vendors to incorporate common data services like search, share, sync, secure and remote wipe into their solutions through a set of open APIs.
Citrix also revealed the first two products in its own portfolio that will be integrated into this open data fabric - Citrix Receiver, the company's universal software client, and Citrix GoToMeeting, a collaboration solution.
“In the PC-era, data was typically stored on a single personal computer, accessed from a physical office, and shared via flash drives or e-mail. As the industry transitions to the cloud era, an increasingly mobile workforce is demanding easy access to data that is un-tethered from offices and devices, and easy to share and collaborate securely with others,” said Templeton.
He also unveiled the Citrix ShareFile software as a service (SaaS) product line, which he said will also make it easy for businesses of all sizes to securely store, sync and share business documents and files, both inside and outside the company.
“Its centralised cloud storage capability allows users to share files across multiple devices and access them from any location,” he pointed out.
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