Let’s Talk! Optimizing Unified Communications

Unified communications solutions, such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex, and others are a critical tool for any organization. It’s how work gets done day in and day out, but are you delivering it in a secure way that minimizes risk? Join us as we interview James Hsu from Citrix Product Management to talk tech about why optimizing unified communications tools with Citrix is the right approach for your business, the delivery methods Citrix provides, a brief history of our innovative work in this space, and resources for getting started.

PODCAST | 28m
September 19, 2022
Season 2 Ep 1

Executive summary

  • Hear directly from Citrix product management on why optimizing unified communications is important
  • Gain strategies on how to best architect your voice and videos calls for success
  • Learn about the latest innovations for optimizing unified communications 

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James Hsu
Senior Manager, Product Management, Citrix

James Hsu is a product manager focused on end-user experiences in end-user computing and workspace solutions. He specializes in Citrix core products, emerging software, and hardware solutions integration. James has over 25 years' experience in software technology integration, project implementations, and practice development across many areas of end-user computing.

Follow him on Twitter - @JamesHsu2Go 

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Steve Beals
Senior Technical Marketing Architect, Citrix

Steve has been around Citrix technologies for 25 years in various technical and management roles. During his time with Citrix, Steve has worked with the Citrix Consulting team, where he designed, deployed, and managed several large-scale enterprise Citrix deployments and was a pre-sales engineer for enterprise customers in the Northeast prior to his current role on the Technical Marketing team.

In his personal life, Steve is married and has a busy home life with four kids ages 14-22. He is an avid sports fan, enjoys a good hard cider, reading, as well as kayaking on his local lake.

Follow him on Twitter - @SRBeals

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Allen Furmanski
Lead Architect and Content Strategist, Citrix

Allen started with Citrix back in 2007 within the support organization helping customers and partners solve issues on MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0, 4.0, and 4.5 as well as Citrix Password Manager. Over the years he's transitioned to roles within readiness, product management, strategic alliances, and product marketing and is now lead architect of the technical marketing content team. He’s obtained various Citrix certs and awards, presented to numerous customers, spoken at industry events around the world, and always enjoys evangelizing Citrix technology.

In his personal life, Allen is married and enjoys exploring places at home and abroad, hiking the national parks, live music and events, good food and drinks, all things Tesla, tackling projects around the house, and digital photography. 

Follow him on Twitter - @TekGuyAllen

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