Citrix Makes Desktop Transformation Faster, Easier and More Affordable
May 25 2011 - 1:30PM
Business Wire
At Citrix Synergy™, where virtual computing takes center stage,
thousands of attendees are meeting this week to discuss best
practices for Desktop Transformation – the shift taking place in
companies today as they move from the “PC Era” with its traditional
distributed computing models, to the “Cloud Era” where desktop
virtualization is rapidly becoming the mainstream approach to
managing desktops, apps and data. To further accelerate this
transition, Citrix made two related announcements today. To make
virtual desktops easier to deploy, Citrix unveiled a free new
online service called “Success Accelerator” that guides customers
through each unique virtual desktop project, providing customized
tips, tricks and best practices at every step of the way, gathered
from the experiences of thousands of successful customer
deployments. To reduce the cost of virtual desktops, Citrix also
announced a new update to the company’s flagship Citrix XenDesktop®
product that simplifies desktop transformation by reducing storage
costs for VDI-based desktops by up to half.
Making Desktop Transformation Faster and Easier
The new Success Accelerator service aggregates the combined
knowledge and experience of thousands of customers who have
successfully deployed millions of virtual desktops, and makes their
“lessons learned” readily accessible to new customers as they
embark on their own desktop transformation projects. This free
online service offers customers a proactive online implementation
guide for new virtual desktop projects customized to each
customer’s unique situation. For each new project a customer
registers, the Success Accelerator service provides them with
customized design decision guides, videos, tools, templates, and
training, all designed to provide the right help at the right stage
of the project. Each project includes:
- Online Design Decisions Guide – gives
customers customized advice as they walk through design decisions
at each phase of their desktop virtualization project.
- Interactive Implementation Guide –
gives customers a customizable implementation guide specific to
their project, which includes best practices, tutorial videos,
training courses, and end-user communication templates.
- 24/7 Access – the Success Accelerator
service is accessible online via a MyCitrix log-in.
Making Desktop Transformation More Affordable
Another key way to accelerate desktop transformation is to
reduce the cost of virtual desktop deployments, especially
VDI-based desktops that typically require significant investments
in expensive SAN-based storage. Citrix XenDesktop with IntelliCache
takes a big step forward in this area by allowing frequent desktop
read-write traffic to take place on a local server, rather than
going back-and-forth over the network to a centralized storage
environment. This innovative new approach can reduce storage
traffic in VDI deployments by as much as 951 percent, cutting the
cost of central storage in half. The new XenDesktop IntelliCache
feature is available today with XenDesktop 5 Service Pack 1, and
applies to any VDI-based desktop that uses Citrix XenServer as the
backend hypervisor.
Desktop Transformation at Citrix Synergy
Customers can learn more about the Citrix Desktop Transformation
Model at Citrix Synergy™ in San Francisco, May 25-27, 2011. A new
Desktop Transformation track includes five sessions presented by
leading implementation architects to provide the latest best
practices. Attendees will also be able to experience the Desktop
Transformation Model first-hand at the Expo Hall where sections are
organized to design, simplify and accelerate virtual desktop
deployments. In the design section, solution architects will be
standing by ready to discuss strategies for achieving the latest
business goal. In the simplify section, 10 Citrix Ready® partners
will be on-hand to explain state-of-the-art tools for assessing
user segmentation, application and profile migrations. In the
accelerate section, Citrix technical experts will be on-hand to
whiteboard specific projects and address the toughest technical
questions.
Supporting Quotes
“With thousands of customers implementing millions of virtual
desktops, Citrix and our partners and customers have gathered a
significant amount of knowledge and best practices on how to
successfully implement a desktop virtualization strategy. Our new
Success Accelerator gathers that knowledge and expertise into an
easily accessible resource for customers to help accelerate the
process of rolling out virtual desktops across their
organizations,” said Mitch Parker, vice president, Services at
Citrix.
“The new release of Citrix XenDesktop with support for XenServer
Intellicache drastically changes the economics of virtual desktops
for enterprises of all sizes. Intellicache addresses one of the key
challenges of virtual desktop infrastructure: the cost of storage.
The ability to reduce cost in half will allow businesses to rapidly
adopt desktop virtualization across all users in the enterprise,”
said Amitabh Sinha, Vice President of Product Management,
Enterprise Desktops and Applications at Citrix.
Related Links
- Announcement: Citrix helps customers go
from “wow to how” with desktop virtualization
- Expert blog: New XenDesktop 5 Service
Pack 1 makes deployments and migrations easier than ever
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virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an
on-demand service. Founded in 1989, Citrix combines virtualization,
networking, and cloud computing technologies into a full portfolio
of products that enable virtual workstyles for users and virtual
datacenters for IT. More than 230,000 organizations worldwide rely
on Citrix to help them build simpler and more cost-effective IT
environments. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in more
than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was $1.87 billion.
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