Citrix Synergy 2018 highlights

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Synergy is Citrix's main event and Xenit are of course on site to try out new features and solutions. The conference includes both a business-oriented and technical track for customers and partners. Måns Hurtigh, Simon Gottschlag (CTP), Adam Clark and Linus Lindström from Xenit are on-site to test the latest Citrix products and features. Citrix CEO, David Henshall opened Synergy by talking about their key strategic priorities for 2018. Mainly there are three key areas that Citrix is talking about:

  • Unify Citrix portfolio to simplify user and IT experiences
  • Accelerate to the cloud to help companies work the way they want
  • Expand to new areas to meet the demands of the future

David Henshall continued by speaking about Citrix’s goals and strategies for 2018. Citrix announced several items this year that focus on expanding Citrix Cloud with more features and unifying their already market-leading products. A lot of new products and features were introduced:

  • Citrix Workspace App
  • Workspace Self-service with ServiceNow
  • Autoscale for Google Cloud
  • Citrix endpoint management capabilities
  • Citrix Cloud for Azure Government
  • Citrix Cloud App Control
  • SD-WAN Server for managed service providers (MSP)
  • Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management

On Summit 2017 Citrix talked about unifying their whole product series. It sure seems that Citrix is continuing down this path. Citrix's slogan this year is ”The future is now”. Be sure to check out all the new cool features from this year's Citrix Synergy.