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Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in Application Delivery Infrastructure. More than 215,000 organisations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere, with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100 percent of the Fortune 100 companies and 99 percent of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and consumers. Citrix has approximately 8,000 partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was $1.4 billion.
Citrix’s vision is a world where anyone can work and play from anywhere. To make this vision a reality, IT must transition from the slow, static, costly paradigm of application deployment to the responsive, agile, efficient approach of application delivery. With a strategic and architectural approach to application delivery, IT can become an enabler to business change rather than a road block.
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Citrix Delivery Center™
Citrix Delivery Center™ is an application delivery infrastructure system that allows you to virtualise application resources, manage them centrally, accelerate their performance and securely deliver to users anywhere. A dynamic infrastructure helps transform the data centre from a static, production-oriented facility to a dynamic, service-oriented delivery centre.
End to end virtualisation
Citrix offers the broadest and best virtualisation for application delivery, enabling IT to control applications, desktops and the server infrastructure that supports them from the data centre.
- Desktop virtualisation – with XenDesktop
- Application virtualisation – with XenApp
- Server virtualisation – with XenServer
- Acceleration, HA and security – with NetScaler
- Orchestration and automation – with Workflow Studio (2009)
XenDesktop offers a next-generation, user-centric desktop virtualisation solution that provides a complete system for desktop delivery. XenDesktop dynamically assembles virtual desktops on-demand, providing users with 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 which helps in desktop optimisation. Link to collateral downloads (whitepapers etc.) – see MyCitrix
XenApp is a Windows application delivery system that manages and virtualises all applications in the data centre for optimal application performance and flexible delivery. With it, you can deliver all Windows applications to office, task and mobile users on demand, either run centrally from the data centre or streamed down to the user’s device. A single copy of the application is managed centrally, reducing support and maintenance costs by as much as 40 percent. With more than 100 million users and 99 percent of the Fortune Global 500 as customers, XenApp is the leader in delivering Windows-based applications with the best performance, security and cost savings. Link to collateral downloads (whitepapers etc.) – see MyCitrix
XenServer is server virtualization – using a hypervisor layer between bare metal and operating system to allow multiple instances of those operating systems to run on the same hardware. Based on the open source Xen® hypervisor, XenServer makes data centres more agile and efficient through faster application delivery, higher levels of availability and improved utilisation of IT resources. The unique provisioning technology of XenServer can rapidly deliver workloads across virtual or physical servers making it the ideal virtualisation platform for every server in the enterprise. Link to collateral downloads (whitepapers etc.) – see MyCitrix
NetScaler delivery solutions are purpose-built appliances that accelerate application performance up to five times, while simultaneously reducing data centre costs and improving Web application security. They provide visibility into the user application experience and comprehensive web application security in concert with advanced traffic management. Citrix NetScaler accelerates Web application performance by up to five times by leveraging multiple acceleration technologies and innovative TCP optimisations. Link to collateral downloads (whitepapers etc.) – see MyCitrix
Workflow Studio is an IT process automation solution that enables you to compose, integrate and orchestrate rule-based workflows across your application delivery infrastructure. Workflow Studio acts as the glue across the IT infrastructure allowing administrators to easily tie technology components together via workflows that enable the system to truly operate as a dynamic delivery platform. Available 2009, Tech Preview available now on request. Link to collateral downloads (whitepapers etc.) – see MyCitrix
