Citrix Receiver: the road ahead

SYN211

Bharath Rangarajan Sr. Director, Product Management, Receiver and CloudGateway

October 18, 2012

- The road ahead

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Agenda

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•  Factors influencing Receiver Direction

•  Receiver: Past, Present and Future

•  Summary

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Forces

Function

Form

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Windows BYO Consumerization Mobility Workshifting New platforms/devices Apple

User Experience and Architecture

Updater 2008

App Picker 2010

Broker 2013

Access Hub 2011/2012


Updater 2008

App Picker 2010

Broker 2013



Receiver = Updater

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•  User simplicity

•  Sys tray icon consolidation

•  Automatic updates


App Picker 2010

Updater 2008

Broker 2013



Dazzle

-‐  Emergence of self-‐service

-‐  App lisDng by permissions and relevance

-‐  Just pick – launch from Start menu

Receiver = App Picker


App Picker 2010

Updater 2008

Broker 2013



Key Tenets of Receiver as an access hub

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• Simple setup + update mechanism

• StoreFront + Launchpad

• Access anything from anywhere

• Multi-platform support

• Extensible beyond apps

Citrix Confiden-al -‐ Do Not Distribute

One Page


One Address

Auto-‐Discovery

Stores

Plug-ins

Updates


Remote access to any app

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Gateway services

Data

Mobile

Web & HTML5

Windows

Delivering the best user experience on all devices

..and on Browsers too

•  True clientless access to

windows apps and desktops

•  HTML 5 engine


Beyond Windows Apps: Web/SaaS and Native Mobile Apps

-  Secure Browse

-  Mobile App Management via Citrix MDX technologies

-  Single-Sign On via SAML


Beyond Apps: ShareFile

-  ShareFile plug-in

-  Updates via StoreFront

-  SSO to AG & CloudGateway

-  Outlook plug-in integration

-  Docs accessible via: Web, Explorer/Finder or Receiver

• Optimized Unified Communications solution

for Microsoft Lync

• Provides local-like voice and video

experience in a virtual environment

• Highly scalable for large enterprise

deployments of Lync

• Integrates seamlessly with Lync

infrastructure


Beyond Apps: Extensibility via 3rd party Plug-ins


Broker 2013

App Picker 2010

Updater 2008



By 2015: • 15 billion net-‐connected devices

•  two for every person on the planet. •  (seven for the average US ci-zen)

• 1.3 billion mobile workers •  37.2% of the total workforce

• 90% of organiza-ons will support corporate apps on personal devices

Cisco

Gartner

IDC


Receiver as a broker….

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•  Discovery of apps and services

•  Connectivity to the enterprise

•  Interactions and data sharing between apps

•  Access to common value-added services

Driven primarily by the rise of Enterprise Mobility


Store Experience

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•  Browse app categories and search

•  Ratings and reviews

•  Recommendations

•  Peer-to-peer help

•  Unified experience across mobile and desktops


Connect to the Enterprise: Authentication

2nd Factor

AD

corporate intranet

Mobile app/Desktop Plug-‐in

Authen-ca-on Delegator retrieve session

cookie

encrypted connec-on

logon

MDX Library (mobile) Plug-‐in SDK (desktops) Auth

Manager

•  AD credentials •  Client-certs •  SAML tokens •  Soft tokens •  SmartCards •  Risk-based Auth

2 Models - Receiver authenticates, App trusts - App authenticates with info from Receiver


Connect to the Enterprise: Micro-VPN

server

server

corporate intranet

Networking Logic

Mobile app/browser

Network intercep-on func-ons

retrieve session cookie

encrypted connec-on

logon

MDX Library


App-2-App Interaction

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Encrypted clipboard

shared data vault

Secure Socket IPC Secure Socket IPC

Secure Socket IPC


Access to Value-added Services

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•  Authentication

•  Encryption

•  Speech-to-text/Text-to-Speeh

•  ShareFile data access

•  Virtualized App launch


app private data vault

Logon

Store (Apps)

Secure IPC

MDX Framework MDX Framework MDX Framework



Secure Network Tunnel

Broker Architecture

Managed Applica-ons

Clipboard

shared data vault

ShareFile

XenApp

SpeechToText


Forces

Function

Form


Windows 8/WinRT Receiver

• ProducDvity with follow-‐me apps/desktops Click and Touch-‐based interacDons Quick search via Metro charms Pin to start for instant access

• x86 and ARM

• In Tech-‐Preview now (Metro App Store)

• V1 Coming soon


Windows 8 - Metro

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Windows 8 - Metro

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Windows 8 - Metro

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Windows 8 - Metro

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Summary

•  Receiver continues to evolve – with a focus on ‘brokering’ functions

•  Evolution is driven by external forces plus valuable assets of a preceding generations

•  In a diverse world – devices, OS, app types - Receiver is a ‘normalizer’


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