Citrix Cloud
If you’re still running XenApp v6.5, you know you need to develop a migration plan. XenApp v6.5 hits “End of Maintenance” – after which there will be no further code maintenance – at the end of calendar year 2017, and End of Life on June 30, 2018. So if you don’t have a migration plan in place, you don’t have a lot of time to develop one. Furthermore, if you’ve been tracking the evolution of the XenApp and XenDesktop products, you’ve probably noticed that new releases are coming more frequently these days as new and enhanced functionality is added to the products. That’s both good news and bad news: good news because the products are getting better and better, bad news because upgrading your Citrix infrastructure can involve a significant work effort. It is not unusual for a XenApp or XenDesktop infrastructure upgrade to take 100 to 120 hours of work effort on the part of your own IT team, if you have the skill set in-house to do it, or on the part of your Citrix consulting partner if you don’t. Read More
Some years ago, we knew RSA as the company that made those key fob tokens for dual-factor authentication. Indeed, they were pioneers in the multi-factor authentication space, and to my knowledge, no one has ever found a way to successfully beat their SecurID token-based authentication. But RSA is so much more than that these days. Even the venerable SecurID product has grown into a powerful and flexible Identity Management solution.
