Citrix review the impact of their BYO and Beyond
scheme
As businesses continue to grow and diversify, it becomes more
and more challenging to efficiently meet the various needs of the
company's employees. Citrix have responded to this challenge by
launching "BYO
and Beyond". BYO allows businesses to deliver applications
and environments to their customers or staff in such a way that
they can be experienced on any device the user happens to prefer or
have access to.
Citrix analysed attitudes to the BYO programme in medium
and large organisations, with 700 CIOs from seven countries
being questioned; including 100 CIOs from the UK. They found that
28% of workers are using personal devices in the workplace
today. This figure is expected to increase to 35% as soon as
2013.
Not only has there been a shift from corporate to personal
devices; the number of devices the average person uses daily is
rising. 42% of those surveyed claim to use 3 devices a day, be they
PCs, Laptops, Smart Phones or Tablets. Ensuring that the end user
has seamless access to their files has never been so difficult.
In order to truely benefit from this scheme, businesses need to
invest in desktop virtualisation. BYO can theoretically be
used in countless situations - mobile sales teams, home-based
workers, contractors, consultants -all of them can be given secure
access to relevant files regardless of geographic location. As well
as freeing up the workforce, it also reduces overheads, as
smart-phones and laptops would no longer be needed for any
individual that wishes to leave the confines of the office.
**Update**
Citrix is expanding its BYOD programme, after achieving 20% cost
savings in the three years since launch. To read how these savings
were achieved and to learn how BYOD is going to be expanding,
please read this
article.
Global Knowledge can provide the training courses
which allow you and your organisation the opportunity to take full
advantage of this exciting initiative.
Implementing Citrix XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008 : Skills
Update (CXA202-1I) is an instructor-led training course
with classroom discussion, demonstrations and the practical
application of concepts through hands-on exercises.CXA-201-1I
Implementing Citrix XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008 provides the
foundation necessary to effectively deploy and administer Citrix
XenApp and its components, including Web Interface, Application
Streaming, Load Manager, Installation Manager, and Secure
Gateway.
Learners will receive hands-on training for installing Citrix
XenApp and the associated plugins and for using the various
administrative consoles to configure published resources, policies,
individual server and server farm settings, load evaluators,
printers, streaming applications and much more.
The
XenApp 6.5 Administration training course (CXA-206) provides
the foundation necessary for administrators to effectively
centralise and manage applications in the datacenter and instantly
deliver them as a service to users anywhere. Learners will receive
training for installing and configuring Citrix XenApp 6.5 for
Windows Server 2008 R2, Citrix Receiver and plug-ins, as well as
for using administrative consoles and tools to configure resources,
policies, server and farm settings, printers, virtualized
applications and more.
For more information on these courses, please call us on
0118 912 3456 or for more information on Citrix
BYO and Beyond, contact Linda Smith