Virtualization from the Desktop to the Datacenter
Citrix Delivery Center is a dynamic virtualization system that transforms applications and desktops into on-demand services that enable users to work securely and productively from anywhere. Citrix virtualization and application delivery revolutionizes desktop management and simplifies datacenter operations.
Application delivery accelerates business Citrix Delivery Center helps IT react faster to business opportunities with an agile IT infrastructure:
- Improving user productivity
- Rapidly deploying branch offices
- Quicker time to value for mergers and acquisitions
- Minimized down-time with business continuity
- Simplified regulatory compliance projects
The Citrix Delivery Center product family is composed of virtualization and networking product lines—XenDesktop, XenApp, XenServer and NetScaler—to create an end-to-end system that virtualizes servers, desktops and applications, centralizes them in the datacenter and broadcasts them to users over any network as an on-demand service.
Citrix virtualization centralizes and simplifies the management of applications, desktops and server workloads to cut desktop management and datacenter operations up to 50 percent. Our HDX Technologies optimize the efficiency and utilization of servers, networks and user devices to provide fast, efficient application performance regardless of user location.
Reduce desktop management costs up to 50 percent
With Citrix virtualization, IT updates and patches just one copy of each application and operating system in the datacenter, rather than having to manage many on hundreds or thousands of user devices spread all through out the organization. Single instance management drastically reduces operations costs by making IT staff more efficient and virtually eliminating the need to travel to users. It eliminated the need to manage non-corporate devices. With application delivery, it’s fast—new applications are delivered in minutes not months, and updates to applications occur in seconds not weeks.
Reduce datacenter management and operations costs
Citrix virtualization and networking easily integrate with your existing servers, PCs, networks and storage and makes them more efficient. For networks, the Citrix Delivery Center can reduce bandwidth needs by 75 percent through compression, caching and optimizations; for servers Citrix Delivery Center can reduce Web server needs by 60 percent by offloading SSL and TCP connection functions; for storage Citrix Delivery Center minimizes storage and image management requirements through on-demand image streaming; and for PCs Citrix Delivery Center can double their useful life through application virtualization.
Virtualization for Business Continuity, M&A, Compliance, Branch expansion
Leveraging application delivery from Citrix Delivery Center, IT can respond to new business requirements much faster, with much lower capital cost requirements. The centralized virtualization system inherently enables users to work anywhere—so teleworking, off-shoring and outsourcing are accomplished with a simple point-n-click. Adding new branch offices or integrating an acquired business is also a straight-forward expansion of the existing infrastructure—not a separate, new system with new hardware, software, training and integration. Compliance and business continuity projects are much easier, and less costly, with application delivery enabled by Citrix Delivery Center.
Leverage Virtualization to Work Anywhere with a Virtual Workforce
Citrix Delivery Center provides easy, secure remote access from any device, on and offline, dramatically increasing user productivity and accelerating business agility. Remote working, tele-working, flex-working, outsourcing and offshoring are easier with application delivery. Application performance is up to five times faster—reducing response times and providing a familiar, easy-to-use experience no matter where or how applications are used. Web applications, Windows applications and Windows desktops all work better and faster for users in the office (HQ or remote), when working at home or while travelling.
Secure by design
Citrix Delivery Center provides security that is a built-in property of the virtualization infrastructure from the datacenter through the network to the user, rather than something you bolt on at every tier of computing. Powerful and proven security functions including SSL VPN for secure centralized application access, an application firewall to protect sensitive information from the latest threats, enterprise Single Sign-On for strong password protection, DDoS protection for Web applications and tools to control actions and access to applications and audit user sessions.
Application delivery, desktop management – Defining issues for IT
The market leading delivery systems of Citrix Delivery Center enable IT to dramatically reduce application, desktop and datacenter operations costs, and make current infrastructure more efficient and your business more agile. Industry experts agree the time is right to make the move from static application deployment to dynamic application delivery.
End-to-end virtualization
Citrix Delivery Center provides application, desktop and server virtualization, giving IT organizations tremendous flexibility to move application and desktop resources to where they are most needed while maximizing the efficiency and utilization of existing servers, networks, PCs and storage infrastructure.
Application virtualization – with XenApp – is a Windows application delivery system that manages applications in the datacenter and delivers them as an on-demand service to users anywhere using any device. XenApp reduces the cost of application management by up to 50 percent, delivers any application instantly to users anywhere and improves application and data security.
Desktop virtualization – with XenDesktop – is a desktop virtualization system that centralizes and delivers desktops as a service to users anywhere, reduces desktop TCO up to 40 percent and improves data security by centralizing desktop lifecycle management in the datacenter.
Server virtualization – with XenServer – is the simplest and most effective way to virtualize servers and deliver server workloads on-demand to both virtual and physical servers-–enabling a truly dynamic datacenter.
Without end-to-end virtualization, IT generally ends up massively over-provisioning, buying too much bandwidth, adding too many servers and refreshing PCs on an increasingly short life cycle just to keep up with growing application requirements.
Citrix Delivery Center virtualization solutions enable dramatic improvements in IT responsiveness, IT economics and the promise of IT becoming a competitive advantage. Learn more from leading analysts about the value of end-to-end-virtualization:
Plugged into virtualization – EMA discusses end-to-end virtualization and the usefulness of this technology.
VDI: On the horizon – IDC’s Michael Rose discusses the rise of best practices for virtual desktop infrastructures in this executive interview.
Myths, hype and truth behind end-to-end virtualization – Gordon Haff, Principal IT Advisor at Illuminata, and Simon Crosby, CTO of Virtualization and Management at Citrix, unveil the facts and fictions about how organizations are using virtualization to manage, save and share.
Citrix offers the broadest and best virtualization for application delivery, enabling IT to control applications, desktops and the server infrastructure that supports them from the datacenter.
Learn more about how the Citrix Delivery Center delivers:
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