Centralis Take The States By Storm

Published 4th August 2006

Access specialist Centralis has announced a major US reseller partnership with leading international Citrix authority DABCC Inc...

The partnership will initially see DABCC resell Centralis’s cutting edge Citrix farm management software Harvester 4.0 across the United States.

Doug Brown, president and chief technology officer at DABCC said: "Centralis Harvester 4 is a breath of fresh air as it allows both SMB and Enterprise customers to easily and cost effectively manage and audit Citrix Presentation Server farms in seconds.

“In terms of farm-wide Citrix audit, reporting and standards, Harvester 4 has defined itself as a top tier solution that also has the ability to pay for itself in weeks! I highly recommend giving it a try.”

Harvester has recently been updated to manage Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 and will now support multiple farms. The software allows farm-wide administration tasks to be carried out quickly as well as a wide range of standards to be reported and enforced across the entire farm.

Support for multiple farms is also included for the first time, plus the ability to save and restore an entire farm configuration. Template-based reports also allow key farm metrics to be displayed in web pages, and a new dashboard feature is promised as a free upgrade in the near future, bringing real-time farm monitoring and alerting directly to your desktop.

Ewen Anderson, managing director at Centralis said: “We’re extremely proud that someone with a fantastic reputation like Doug is so impressed with our Harvester software.

“We will continue to develop and enhance the software to ensure it stays at the cutting edge of farm management and continues to be an extremely valuable addition to all Citrix environments. Feedback Doug has received from US trials in one of the largest Citrix deployments in the world has already led to a number of enhancements – including development of a report-only version.”

Doug Brown started DABCC in 1999 and is best known for the best selling Citrix manual ‘Methodology in a Box’ (MIAB) and ‘Advanced Print Manager’. MIAB was voted the best Citrix related document in 2002 by Windows NT Magazine.

DABCC is now one of the world’s leading companies providing support to businesses planning, supporting and deploying server based computing solutions.

Centralis specialises in flexible working and business continuity, delivering a complete end-to-end access solution to businesses in the UK, and was recently awarded Citrix platinum solution advisor status.