Citrix XenDesktop

XenClient: The Future of Desktop Computing

XenClient is a strategic product initiative with partners like Intel, focused on local virtual desktops for mobile workers.

Citrix XenDesktop is the clear choice for desktop virtualization and delivers virtual desktops as a service to users anywhere.  With Citrix XenDesktop, users can access their virtual desktops and applications across any network and device.  By implementing a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) you can reduce desktop TCO up to 40 percent by centralizing desktop management in the datacenter and simplifying the traditional desktop lifecycle.

Citrix XenDesktop is the only virtual desktop solution that delivers a high definition user experience over any connection—including low-latency access on the local corporate network to virtual desktops and high latency wide area networks for remote desktop access using Citrix HDX technology.  

Citrix XenDesktop is built on an open architecture to offer customers the choice and flexibility of virtualization platform and endpoint devices. Unlike other desktop virtualization (VDI) alternatives, Citrix XenDesktop simplifies desktop management by using a single virtual desktop image to deliver personalized virtual desktops to both virtual and physical devices—in the datacenter or at the endpoint—and enables IT to manage service levels with built-in performance monitoring.

Check out what’s new in XenDesktop 3, feature pack 1!

CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT:  EMORY HEALTHCARE
Listen to Emory Healthcare—winner of the Citrix Innovation 2009 Award—talk about how Citrix virtualization technologies enable an agile IT environment and quality patient care.

CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT:  COLLIER COUNTY SCHOOLS
Listen to Collier County Schools talk about how it  achieves cost savings and IT efficiencies by providing both hosted and streamed virtual desktops to over 12,000 faculty and students.

The clear choice for desktop virtualization

Citrix XenDesktop, the clear choice for desktop virtualization (VDI), provides:

The best desktop TCO – Centralizing and simplifying desktop management throughout the desktop lifecycle dramatically reduces desktop management overhead, storage and endpoint requirements; extends lifecycles of desktop hardware; and lowers power and cooling costs.

Single image desktop management – Maintaining a single master desktop image in the datacenter and providing users with an up-to-date, pristine desktop at each logon drastically reduces patch and upgrade maintenance efforts, and cuts storage costs by up to 90 percent. XenDesktop also extends centralized desktop delivery to physical endpoints, while still centralizing desktop management using a single image in the datacenter.

High definition user experience – Whether the desktops are hosted or local, XenDesktop ensures a high definition user experience from any device, on any network.  

Built-in virtual applications – Virtual applications enable fewer, simpler virtual desktop images and eliminate system conflicts.  This can reduce application regression testing and increase virtual desktop density by up to two times.  

Open architecture – XenDesktop integrates with XenServer, Hyper-V and ESX, and works out-of-the-box with desktop appliances. This ensures an open, and flexible virtual desktop (VDI) implementation with no vendor lock-in for virtualization or endpoint devices.