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Brian Madden podcast: The Future Of Citrix And The Server-Based Computing Industry

Saturday, 13 May 2006 by Michel Roth

This Brian Madden Live show is a recording of a speech he gave yesterday afternoon at the Accelera Solutions Server-Based Computing conference. He spoke for just over an hour about Citrix's Access Suite Strategy, their direction, how AAC and CAG work, and how the SBC market will evolve over the next five years. Subjects:

� Why Citrix moved from being a single-product company (MetaFrame only) to a multi-line product company (Presentation Server, Portal, Online, HTTP Appliances, etc.)
� How the Access Suite evolved from being a random collection of unrelated products to a fully-integrated suite that offers functionality not available elsewhere.
� The difference between an SSL-VPN and an IPSec VPN, why Citrix bought Net6, and how Citrix replaced their Citrix Secure Gateway with the Citrix Access Gateway.
� What exactly Citrix Advanced Access Control is (a web portal product), and how it integrates with the Citrix Access Gateway and the Citrix Presentation Server in a unique way.
� What functionality Microsoft is adding to Terminal Services in Longhorn
� How the Terminal Server world will evolve beyond Longhorn
� How applications will evolve to be able to "flow" from device to device, regardless of display size or capabilities
� Why Citrix bought Net6, NetScaler, Teros, and Reflectent
� How Reflectent's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) capabilities are different than standard performance monitor metric-based monitoring tools

Listen to the podcast here.