[thinnews] Russian President Putin Gets Citrix After Misplacing Laptop
- From: "Jim Kenzig http://thethin.net" <jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:52:39 -0500
Russian President Putin Gets Citrix After Misplacing Laptop
http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=40504
After misplacing his laptop recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin
phoned in a request to his IT staff to make his data more secure.
After that incident, Citrix Systems signed a deal with the Russian
government to secure Putin's data using Citrix MetaFrame software, said
Traver Gruen-Kennedy, vice president and chief evangelist at Citrix, at the
CeBIT show here.
Apparently, the Russian president, who has been engaged in highly sensitive
discussions related to the Iraq situation, was very concerned after
temporarily losing sight of his laptop, said Gruen-Kennedy, who was made
aware of the incident by Citrix's Europe-based sales manager.
As it turns out, Putin's laptop had been misplaced, not stolen, but for some
mobile users, data security is a top-notch priority, said executives at Fort
Lauderdale, Fla.-based Citrix. "Vladimir had a mobility challenge," quipped
Gruen-Kennedy. "Talk about brinkmanship."
Meanwhile, Citrix plans to launch the Mobile Enterprise Alliance at CeBIT
Thursday. The alliance, which includes Citrix, Ericsson, Palm and Symbion,
is aimed at better educating consumers, corporations and governments on
mobile data access, standards and interoperability issues, said Citrix
executives.
The software vendor plans to spearhead the U.S. launch of that alliance,
which would include Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft and others, at NetWorld
Interop in late April, they said.
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