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Citrix virtualization technologies such as Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp offer significant differentiation and advantages compared to other competitor virtualization products. We surveyed popular review sites to see what real users are saying about Citrix virtualization. The purpose of this write-up is to share with you how businesses across different sectors are leveraging the useful features of Citrix virtual desktop<\/a> – XenDesktop. In the same context, we will also discuss the most popular features of XenDesktop that are keeping the clients happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cost-saving with lower hardware\nrequirements and Storage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A XenApp hosted shared virtual desktops with one-to-many ratio (each user session isolated and working independently) brings almost 400% more shared computing resources than an only-VDI solution (with each user having a dedicated virtual machine<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Citrix XenApp centralized image management technology (many to one server) brought by XenApp Server hosted shared desktops reduce the storage requirement both on local and shared central storage. For example, s single XenApp Server instance needs only 15GB of high-performing shared storage that can support 200 user sessions. Compare this against a VDI solution where each VM needs its own individual storage and 200 VDI users will need 1,000GB of storage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Enhanced mobility with high security<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Citrix\nReceiver<\/a> brings enhanced mobility and use of BYOD. Along with XenApp\nMobility Pack, the Citrix Receiver gives the user the facility of using native\ndevice features of a tablet within a virtual desktop making Windows desktop\neasy to access\/navigate on keyboard-less or without the right-click facility of\na mouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Citrix Receiver is a freely\ndownloadable \/ self-configure feature from Citrix website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The consolidated access to the web\nand virtual applications, access control based on device, location or\napplication, end-to-end IT visibility across user traffic, use of behavior\nanalytics to detect anomalies and enforce security policies are the ways Citrix\nhelps to maintain tight security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Get Windows desktop experience from a server operating system (OS)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n With Windows 2008 R2 server desktop experience feature, you can now transform XenApp server-based virtual desktop to Windows 7 like desktop experience. In this way, you get the best user experience that XenApp server brings by pairing the mobility with the security of virtual desktop with Windows desktop experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n An Investment Management Company with\n201-500 employees<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Initially, the company used the\nXenDesktop to address the remote access latency issue of the users. But later\nit expanded it to a disaster management solution with Citrix Access Gateway (provides\nsecure application-access giving the admins application-level control while\nallowing the users to access them from anywhere) and then by NetScaler (an\napplication delivery controller for making applications run five times faster\nthus reducing web application ownership costs with load balancing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The company finds XenDesktop very helpful\nfor their remote deployments (residing in the same data center along with the\nservers) and faster access without high latency (quite common in case of\nintercontinental connections) and with assured security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oil & Gas Company with<\/strong> 1001-5000 employees<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The company used this for optimizing\ntheir bandwidth at their remote locations plus creating a standard for all\ntheir applications that are run and maintained centrally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The remote locations had T-1 connections and needed the bandwidth to be used carefully. By keeping desktops\/apps centralized to the data center; it lowered the bandwidth usage at such locations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The company was also happy with the\nload balancing of XenDesktop (with load evaluator index for measuring\nserver-load) of the apps and desktops on their servers. Also, the company found\nmanaging user sessions easy and simple with Citrix Director (the management\nconsole in the XenDesktop\/ XenApp).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Insurance Company with more than\n10,00 employees<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The company uses XenDesktop as BYOD\nsolution for its knowledge workers and also as a VDI platform for its call\ncenters. It is happy because of the easy provisioning of machines along with\nits smooth system-updates and easy to apply policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Information Technology and Services\nwith 51-200 employees<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The IT company is happy because of\nthe work-from-anywhere and any-device yet maintaining a consistent and\npersistent user experience delivered by XenDesktop. The hassle-free customization\nof their all their desktops and applications as per the user-requirement, profound\ndelegated administration system, seamless integration of desktop\/apps,\nunparallel scalability with Provisioning Services and high performance are its other\nfeatures the company applauds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Financial Services with 5000-10,000\nemployees<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The finance company uses XenDesktop\nmainly for its IT, operations and offshore resources. The company is expanding\ninto other business and looking forward to using the Citrix service there as\nwell. <\/p>\n\n\n\nMaximum harnessed features of Citrix XenDesktop<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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