Citrix Systems, Inc.
www.citrix.comAbout the Citrix / MATERNA partnership
As an authorised Citrix Gold Solution Advisor, MATERNA provides a full range of services covering procurement, design and implementation for Citrix technologies. Citrix is a world-leading provider of application delivery infrastructures. More than 200,000 companies throughout the world rely on Citrix to provide users with every application, anywhere and anytime.
MATERNA’s experts provide advice and support 
on the selection, delivery and implementation of the products. We carry out the implementation and provide support during ongoing operations. The consulting services are provided by our experts who have a wide range of skills at their command. Our staff of many years have acquired comprehensive knowledge and profound product know-how through certified training programmes and on numerous varied projects. The staff are Citrix Certified Administrators (CCA), Citrix Certified Instructors (CCI) and Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrators (CCEA).
Figure: Dr. Winfried Materna, Managing Partner of MATERNA and Mark B. Templeton, CEO of Citrix, in discussion at the Citrix Forum from 16 to 18 June 2008 in Munich, Source: Citrix
MATERNA also offers project-related training programmes and workshops in Citrix environments.
We take up your specific requirements and implement individual software systems on the basis of Citrix products. Our know-how is based on several hundred person years of experience gained by the MATERNA experts in numerous development and implementation projects.
Our topics
- Server-based computing
- Application, server and Desktop Virtualisation and consolidation
- System Management
- Client and server management incl. management of virtual environments (DX-Union is certified as “Citrix ready”)
- IT Security
- Software Management
- Availability
Our services
MATERNA combines Virtualisation know-how with interdisciplinary knowledge from the fields of system, workplace and infrastructure management as well as IT security. We have many years of experience in setting up and operating virtualised IT infrastructures in companies and public administrations. Speak to us if we can offer you support for the following activities:
- Optimisation of Citrix technologies: set up, operations, performance analysis, error-search and migration.
- Set up and operation of distributed Citrix farms in homogeneous systems landscapes and even in extremely varied mixed installations: automatic initial installation for the operating systems; Solaris, Linux, Windows Server 2003/2008 and Windows XP/Vista/7; automated software distribution for the operating systems Linux, Windows Server 2003/2008 and Windows XP/Vista/7; automated set up of server farms.
- Measures to increase availability when applying Citrix technologies for example with reference to the network, farm functions, licence server, web interface, presentation server, load balancing and failover
- Increased security for the topics of planning, configuration, load balancing and failover
- Use of System Management and identity management environments
- Operation of applications via wired and wireless transmission: creating profiles, designing and implementing groups and Citrix guidelines, farm and server configurations. Configurations in the field of security, migration, planning and dimensioning farm environments, mixed installations
- Examination of applications during operations: project preparation tasks and adaptations
Citrix-Products
- Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server)
- Citrix Access Gateway
- Citrix Password Manager
- Citrix EdgeSight
- Citrix WANScaler
- Citrix XenServer
- Citrix XenDesktop
- Citrix Provisioning Server
References
MATERNA has carried out numerous different projects with continuous success. These include, in particular, migration projects, consolidation projects, implementation projects and projects in the field of automatic installation.
