Citrix in the Amazon Cloud

This week at Synergy Citrix launched their Citrix C3 Cloud service, which in fairness has been available for implementation for many months now, however they have now partnered with the Cloud heavyweight Amazon for delivery using EC2 and S3 as part of their standard technology projects.

C3 was marketed last year as a bundle of Citrix technologies positioned to the cloud provider, this week it also added XenDesktop and XenApp to the mix allowing cloud providers to simply deliver a SaaS or DaaS.

C3 Lab from Citrix is the first offering that will leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Obviously VMware have also been making a play in this area and have their cloud concept also through vSphere, the main commonality between them all should be the use of the OVF format ultimately, which will allow the consumer to utilise any cloud provider they want with minimal migration headaches.

C3 Lab is to provide an inexpensive, pre-configured environment that starts with access to Citrix XenApp alongside key Citrix C3 technologies such as Citrix Access Gateway and Citrix Repeater.

Users will be able to test application compatibility and staging and gain experience of the AWS cloud.

Free Citrix XenApp Cloud Account

The Citrix cloud (C3) is here and has been heavily featured in Las Vegas this week at the annual Synergy (End User) event.

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Citrix Synergy Updates

Citrix are hosting their annual end user conference in Las Vegas this week - Synergy. We are providing some of the highlights from the event, so if you're into Citrix and not at Synergy this could be useful to you:

Mark Templeton's message is simplification this year, and how Citrix and the delivery centre can simplify the way we as businesses can deliver a simplified and unified mechanism for desktop and applications to the end user. This is through:

• One Application Instance
• One instance of Windows
• One instance of a workload
• One copy of data
• One password for the user.

Tesco have been awarded the Citrix innovative award for their deployment of XenServer.

For those in the know, or those who follow this blog you will be aware of Citrix Project Independence this is going to be known as XenClient and will be free!

Citrix Merchandising Server, has been announced which is a set of virtual machines that run on top of XenServer to provide subscription services to be the main interface between the back end system and the users.

Citrix Receiver for Windows, Version 1.0 is available today for Windows only.

Citrix Dazzle has been announced which is a Self service portal and looks very cool and very much like iTunes.

The Citrix Receiver client is now available for Apple iPhone and looks very slick.