Good points, but the broader point is that these instances won’t run on your own network – they’re running on ours.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 11:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] a "secure browser" You'd be reliant on online capability to use the browser though, surely? There is stuff out there like App-V and ThinApp that can cache packaged apps on the client (or deliver through Citrix) already, similar to the old Citrix offline streaming. Rod has mentioned Spoon also, not sure that has any offline capability as it's a long time since I played with it. It's a congested space.....VMware and Citrix have been looking for a good HTML5-capable delivery mechanism for a while, but so far there's nothing that seems to have enough coverage of apps to be broadly adopted. IMHO, etc. JR On 10 June 2014 15:45, Alex Eckelberry <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: To the list, I've been noodling an idea for a while and I was curious what your thoughts might be on this. Feel free to shoot holes, I’m still working it out. At one of the companies I'm involved with, Runaware, we have massive excess datacenter capacity, with large Citrix farms hosting software demos (our primary business). Recently, a large corporate client came to us and asked us to create a special Citrix instance for them, allowing their people to safely surf the web, do web conferences, etc. through our datacenters. We installed a web filter for them, set them up and they are happy. This is all done through HTML 5, so it's seamless. It’s basically a sandboxed session – once the session is over, it’s over. Which brings me to my idea -- a "secure browser". This is a shortcut to a browser that would launch in our Citrix datacenter, running everything safely, outside of the firewall. An admin would deploy this secure browser link onto user desktops. Users would be instructed to use the secure browser for external surfing. It doesn't require the Citrix plug-in, since we use HTML 5. So to the user, it's seamless, not requiring any downloads, etc. (we could use RDP but it's just not fast enough for graphics and other complex apps). Thoughts? Alex Eckelberry -- James Rankin --------------------- RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
