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Welcome back!

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The titlle is more for myself than for anyone else. If you’ve seen some of my earlier posts, then welcome back. If not, then welcome to my blog.

Since my last post a lot has changed. I’m no longer employed by Citrix or ShareFile. After a short stint at OpenText, following their acquisition of Carbonite where I was employed, this November will mark my 4-year anniversary in presales at Okta. And in that role I’m encountering a lot of challenges organizations are struggling with in regards to their identity security. From lifecycle processes, authentication paths to governance, I’m having discussions on those every day. Every challenge is similar, but also very different and unique.  Add a sprinkling of AI to the conversation and you have an idea about an average working day at the moment.  Talking with the people around me at Okta we came to the conclusion that those discussions, the thought-processes around them and potential solutions would be interesting to share with a broader public.

I keep my notes in Field Notes notebooks and to link that to my writings I’m starting the Notes from the Field series. Occasionally I will also write about more technical topics or Okta product releases, small warning, I’ll be traveling to Oktane this afternoon. My first post reflecting on an RFP that hit my inbox a while back will go up later this week, depending on how my travels to Las Vegas go.

My first reference architecture

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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.