Citrix Provisioning Services™ for Datacenters reduces total cost of ownership and improves both manageability and business agility by virtualizing the workload of a datacenter server-–operating system, applications and configuration-–and streaming the workload on-demand to physical or virtual servers from the network.

Servers are stateless until streamed to; no software is preloaded or permanently loaded. No other server-provisioning approach compares in terms of economic benefits or operational efficiencies. By delivering server workloads on-demand rather than deploying them on individual servers, Citrix Provisioning Services for Datacenters:

• Simplifies and streamlines server management, and reduces software rollout risk.
• Ensures server consistency within silos by provisioning servers simultaneously from a single standard workload image.
• Increases IT responsiveness and agility by enabling capacity on-demand–-repurpose any server to do any job.
• Reduces utility costs and space needs by cutting the number of backup servers that are required.
• Dynamically satisfies needs for growth, disaster recovery and business continuity.

Provisioning Services for Datacenters can stream a workload to any server or server farm, extending Citrix XenApp™ application delivery capabilities and Citrix XenServer™ server virtualization capabilities. Importantly, Provisioning Server complements existing systems management solutions (SMS). It drives even better ROI by giving an existing SMS the additional option of delivering the workload as a service rather than relying on the traditional approach of deploying the workload by repeatedly copying it to every server.