I’ve been working with customers looking at ShareFile and Citrix Content Collaboration since 2013. During many of those conversations the main topic focuses on “the best or recommended way” to deploy an on-premises repository to store files. Over the years, we’ve collected a lot of knowledge and insights in how customers are deploying their storage zones and what our guidance and best practices should be.

As a member of the Technical Marketing team at Citrix and with the launch of Citrix Tech Zone, it was time to put this knowledge into a reference architecture. I’ve been working with our technical pre-sales, post-sales deployment and product management teams to gather all available knowledge and create a consistent architecture. The result is not the end stage, but rather a starting point to incorporate more customer and partner feedback and improve on this initial version.

So head over to the reference architecture and let us know your feedback. Both the things you like, but also what’s missing or where you have different opinions on how we should deploy a storage zone.