Summary: In episode 214, Douglas Brown interviews Kurt Moody, Director Cloud App Delivery Solutions Architecture at Citrix. Kurt and Douglas discuss the Citrix Service Provider Program along with Desktop as a Service (DaaS) in general. Kurt does an amazing job introducing us to the Citrix Service Provider Program, the market, how it works, why we should care, and much more. About the Citrix Service Provider Program The Citrix Service Provider Partner Program provides comprehensive technical and business resources service providers need to build a high-value Desktops-as-a-Service (DaaS) business. Citrix makes partners successful at building their own highly differentiated, customized DaaS solutions through access to monthly pay-as-you-go licensing, a validated reference architecture, and prescriptive business and marketing resources. Citrix provides the complete package for partners to build and deliver complete hosted service portfolios with hosted desktops, hosted apps, mobile device management and secure file share and sync, plus the infrastructure for self-service provisioning and secure networking. With Citrix, service providers have all of the elements to create scalable, reliable private or public cloud-based DaaS offerings. Citrix Desktops-as-a-Service www.citrix.com/daas Citrix Service Provider program www.citrix.com/csp Kurt Moody’s Service Provider Planning Guide blog series http://blogs.citrix.com/tag/csp-planning-guide/ Citrix DaaS blogs http://blogs.citrix.com/tag/daas/
