“Virtualization was recommended as a key enabler for business growth, a factor of the utmost importance to BT Media and Broadcast Service,” said Richard May, senior IT infrastructure manager. “Citrix’s virtual desktop delivery solution has given us a flexible architecture and allowed us to future proof our network — facilitating global reach to our widening customer base. The solution, implemented by BT Basilica, not only has unsurpassed scalability but has realized reduced energy usability by 50 percent in one year.”
Time to rethink traditional desktop deployment
For IT organizations, desktop management today is manual, time-consuming and expensive. Ensuring data security and regulatory compliance is complex when desktops are distributed around the globe. And business continuity is difficult to implement when users are tied to their physical PCs. For users, the longer they have to keep their PCs, the more the performance degrades as patches and app updates inevitably cause bloat. The alternative is to replace or re-image the machines, meaning disruptions and loss of productivity.
Is desktop virtualization the answer?
Desktop virtualization technology enables the centralization of desktops in the datacenter, which makes them easier to secure and backup. However, many of the same lifecycle management issues persist — IT still needs to manage, maintain and update each virtual desktop image, along with all its installed apps and user settings. In addition, desktop virtualization can create new challenges — most notably, degraded user experience over networks and the high costs of networked storage needed for each user’s desktop image.
Desktop delivery — a better way to deliver virtual desktops
Citrix XenDesktop™ goes beyond desktop virtualization to provide an end-to-end desktop delivery solution. XenDesktop dynamically assembles virtual desktops on-demand, providing users a new and pristine, yet personalized, desktop each time they log on — ensuring that performance never degrades. In addition, XenDesktop’s high-speed delivery protocol provides unparalleled responsiveness over any network. For IT organizations, XenDesktop greatly simplifies desktop lifecycle management and radically drives down cost of ownership by separating the delivery of the desktop OS, applications and user settings.
Citrix XenDesktop™ delivers desktops on-demand to users anywhere while dramatically simplifying lifecycle management. It provides an end-to-end desktop delivery solution that accelerates the delivery of desktops to knowledge workers, enables stronger data protection and control, and reduces the cost of ownership by up to 40%.
Key Features and Benefits
Superior User Experience
- On-demand Desktops: Dynamically
assembles a virtual desktop each time a
user logs on to ensure that performance
never degrades
- SpeedScreen™: Delivers the fastest desktop performance over any network
- Instant On: Provides access to virtual desktops in seconds
- Universal Printer Driver: Delivers consistent and fast printing experience for users and simplifies printer management and support for IT
- EasyCall: Enables simple, click-to-call voice communications
Simple Desktop Provisioning and Management
- Desktop Image Management: Enables IT to
centrally manage many virtual desktops from a single image
- On-Demand Image Provisioning: Creates
and de-provisions virtual desktops, optimizing resource utilization and providing a pristine OS each time a user logs on
- Desktop Storage Optimization: Reduces
“desktop image sprawl” by enabling hundreds of virtual desktops to boot from a single desktop image. Saves up to 90% on storage
- Virtual Machine Infrastructure: Provides a 64-bit paravirtualization-based hypervisor for scalable, cost-effective hosting of virtual desktops
Reliable Desktop Access Management
- Desktop Assignment: Creates pools of virtual desktops for groups of users, or dedicates a specific desktop for individual users
- Session Management: Virtual desktop
connections and session status
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- Session Reliability: Ensures users can continue to work even over high-latency or lowbandwidth network connections
- High Availability/Failover: Enable users to
access their virtual desktops with no single
point of failure
- Secure Remote Access: Enables remote
workers and day extenders to access their
virtual desktops from other devices and
locations outside the corporate firewall
Desktop Optimization and Support
- Desktop Performance Monitoring: Proactively ensures that users always receive best performance by tracking real-time and historical metrics
- WAN Optimization: Increases performance
over the WAN with quality of service
- Desktop Support: Enables support representatives to view a user’s screen, chat,
transfer files, to quickly resolve a problem
Broad Desktop Delivery Ecosystem
- Desktop Appliance: New class of endpoint
devices that provide the best user experience and out-of-the-box interoperability
- Broad Hypervisor Support: Provides integration and interoperability with any VM infrastructure, including Citrix, Microsoft and VMware
- Blade PC Support: Provides users with
dedicated, high-performance computing
resources using blade PC-based
virtual desktops
- Heterogeneous Client Support: Enables
flexibility and choice in endpoint devices,
with support for Windows, Linux, Mac and
mobile operating systems
- Citrix Ready Products: Ensures interoperability with desktop appliances, servers, storage and management software
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About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 99% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was $1.4 billion.
READ: Desktop Delivery Whitepaper: Making Desktop Virtualization Work
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