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Citrix MDX Technologies

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The following content is a brief and unofficial article about Citrix’s MDX Technology. The views, opinions and concepts expressed are those by the author of this entry only and do not necessary conform to industry descriptions or best practises.

Shortened Names
XENMOBILE APPCONTROLLER – xac
FULLY QUALIFIED DOMAIN NAME – fqdn
XENMOBILE DEVICE MANAGER – xdm

What is and does Citrix MDX mean for wrapped iOS, Android mobile apps

Digital Signing (Wrapping) *.IPA, *.APK App Binaries To Become MDX Enabled
Coming soon! In the mean time check out Signing Android mobile apps – http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/apppreptool/clg-appwrap-android-wrap-app-tsk.html, iOS mobile apps – http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/apppreptool/clg-appwrap-ios-wrap-app-tsk.html.

MDX Vault
The MDX Vault technology essential provides a logical safe and secure sandboxed container within an iOS, Android platform on a device.

MDX InterApp
The MDX InterApp technology essential allows or denies other public delivered mobile apps (iTunes, Google Play) on a device access to communicate with a MDX digitally signed mobile only if allowed e.g communication for the signed MDX mobile app is set to unrestricted. How if the MDX mobile
app delivered from the XenMobile AppController is set to restricted the SysAdmin or MobilityAdmin would need to specific what mobile apps the MDX mobile app is able to communicate and share information with on the mobile device.

MDX Access
The MDX Access technology essential provides safe, secure access to internal intranet resources within your trusted network from any where in the world connected via optionally 3G, 4G & Edge mobile or wired/wireless public and untrusted networks. The technology requires a Citrix NetScaler Gateway if want to know how it works check out – http://www.citrix.com/products/netscaler-gateway/how-it-works.html. You can easily deploy a NetScaler Gateway solution utilising release 10.1+ which includes wizards – http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/07/03/citrix-netscaler-gateway-10-1-118-7-quick-configuration-wizard/.

XenMobile FIPS 140 Compliance
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/apppreptool/nl/ru/clg-appwrap-fips-con.html?locale=en