From: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> To: Richard Kahn Subject: Re: Citrix vs Cloud Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:47:10 +0000 Inline-Images: image003.png; 2014-03-19_11.59.15.png monday On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Richard Kahn wrote: James review of removing citrix has hit a wall He summarizes below that in order to eliminate citrix we will need to have our files hosted on the cloud Please advise on your thoughts of continuing with citrix or moving to cloud to host QB files Richard Kahn HBRK Associates Inc. Begin forwarded message: From: James I need mac help Subject: Fwd: Thank you for contacting sales Date: March 20, 2014 3:29:39 PM EDT To: Richard Kahn Cc: Sara Rychtari Hi Rich, I haven't heard anything further on the Murph / Citrix failure. Are things happening there / has it been resolved? I've hit a fairly serious brick wall in my research of alternative configurations. Hidden in the QB Enterprise Solutions Installation and setup guide, in very small print, is that the server requires a 40 Mbps connection to the clients. As I recall, STT currently has a 15Mbps connection, with plans to go up to 25Mbps. 71st Street has a 50/5Mbps connection and the Lexington Ave office is around 4Mbps. Even *IF* we had the option to get the two offices up to that 40Mbps level, the costs for that level of service would be excessive. I emailed the QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions sales team to confirm the requirement and ask about alternatives. Their response is below. Basically they're saying that they don't expect it to work and won't support it. Their solutions are the hosted (cloud based) service or Windows Terminal Services (Microsoft's basic version of the current Citrix configuration). (Also, I looked at the QuickBooks Remote Access service closer and it isn't what I thought it was; it won't work for our purposes.) EFTA01193462