Mobile applications and cloud computing "co-prosperity"

Global smartphone sales are up to hundreds of millions of units a year, according to the IDC report. Individuals purchase these devices for personal use, and employers do not configure these mobile terminals for their employees ' purchases. But the need for mobile office and telecommuting will not be surprising for the BYOD model.

However, the rise of BYOD office model, let the enterprise IT people feel anxious. Employees want to be able to achieve continuous access to their enterprise resources, regardless of their location or the device they are using. At the same time, the enterprise's IT department is also trying to ensure that enterprise resources are safe and safe. However, the problem becomes more complicated once the advantages of BYOD office and its development objectives obscure the advantages of cloud computing.

The adoption of BYOD means more diverse applications, which run counter to the cloud advantage of maximizing the application delivery of the same interface, and the cloud becomes more complex. Can we only make a single choice in the cloud construction and BYOD office?

At the company's mobile strategy Summit, Mr. Mark B. Templeton, President and CEO of Citrix, briefed the participants on the development of enterprise mobility strategies and solutions to the specific challenges facing mobile offices in the cloud era. Mark introduced through the Internet, around the technology of SI Jie to create an enterprise mobile cloud platform, to the needs of this platform to launch a full range of solutions. such as desktop virtualization, Application Virtualization solutions, and so on.

At the conference, Xenmobile MDM, the Enterprise mobile Device management solution, enables companies to meet their management and compliance requirements while bringing more device choices to their users. Together with Jie's Citrix Cloudgateway, Citrix NetScaler and other solutions, Xenmobile MDM will provide enterprise users with a holistic solution to meet their full mobile needs.

We know that some users are accustomed to relying on graphical user interface tools or virtual operator interfaces to create data working views. However, mobile devices provide limited support for specific application clients. It is impractical to expect clients to support all major mobile device operating systems. The first rule in building a compatible BYOD cloud computing system is to establish an application interface based on browsing the PC technology. This means that users can at least ensure that cloud computing applications are compatible with PCs. Then you need to be clear that all mobile devices must support the appropriate application.

To build a browser-based BYOD cloud, all applications must use a public URL. Most modern software tools use public URLs with almost all cloud services, but traditional applications built on IAAS platforms may contain non-standard interfaces. HTML and scripting features, and different mobile browser support vary widely. Fast Web search engines can search for a chart from which to automatically retrieve cloud applications that support user mobile devices. Search Support HTML5, cascading style sheet (CSS) features and scripting language features are the most difficult to achieve.

Citrix Cloudgateway enables the mobility of local applications, including the ability to implement HTML5 applications and Web applications. Based on Cloudgateway technology, we can achieve secure delivery management and control, that is to say, users can achieve a single sign-on experience, while it can achieve sophisticated, precision access control.

The Boyd model contains security issues because employees use a single personal device to access personal and corporate data. To ensure that applications are secure, mobile devices need to be centrally maintained, centrally managed, and configured. Si Jie Chief Presentation Officer Xuegang introduces Si Jie creates a safe boundary, can separate the enterprise data and the individual data, guaranteed the mobile device above data security. Users can deliver Windows applications, mobile applications, Web applications through the technology of Citrix, and can access all different types of applications by logging in.

"Cloudgateway new Worldmail for secure access to mail, Workweb to secure intranet," he said. In addition, the browser will automatically create a link, can connect to the enterprise's firewall, through the firewall to connect to the intranet of the enterprise. When the user exits, the link will automatically disconnect, to achieve a very secure user network access. Both of these applications include secure mobile integration techniques. ”

With the introduction of Citrix Cloudgateway, a key technology for MDX technology, this technology provides a high precision security and control security policy that controls each application pushed to the user.

In addition, Si Jie is a public cloud of important technology providers, nearly 80% of the public cloud infrastructure is based on the core technology of Si Jie. Almost a year after the acquisition of Cloud.com, Si Jie released the Open-source cloud platform Cloudstack and shifted its Cloudstack API control under the Apache 2 Open source license under Apache. Unlike Rackspace regulatory OpenStack development, Jie abandons Cloudstack's development control and transfers it to a third party.

Mark thinks the open source community is the foundation of the vast majority of all public clouds. Open source cloud deployment and choreography of products can help build and implement the cloud platform. All the work has a unique goal is to achieve mobile office, so that enterprises realize mobility, but also in a strategic way to achieve mobile office environment.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)