Deliver IT as an On-Demand Service

Citrix CEO discusses the power of end-to-end virtualization
Mark Templeton, President and CEO talks about the power of virtualization and introduction of the Citrix Delivery Center. Watch Video

Citrix Delivery Center is a dynamic virtualization system that transforms applications and desktops into on-demand services that enable users to securely and productively work and play from anywhere.

Citrix Delivery Center, composed of XenDesktop, XenApp, XenServer and NetScaler, virtualizes servers, desktops and applications, centralizes them in the datacenter and broadcasts them as an on-demand service. Citrix Delivery Center  simplifies desktop and datacenter management for up to 50 percent lower operations costs.

Citrix HDX technology provides fast, efficient desktop and application performance regardless of user location, while optimizing server, network and device utilization.

Delivering IT accelerates business and reduces costs
Citrix Delivery Center helps IT react faster to business opportunities with an agile IT infrastructure:

• Cutting facilities expenses with tele-working and remote working initiatives
• Reducing labor costs with secure, productive outsourcing and off-shoring
• Attracting and  retaining key talent with flexible working alternatives
• Rapidly deploying branch offices
• Quicker time to value for mergers and acquisitions
• Minimized down-time with business continuity  
• Simplified regulatory compliance projects

Reduce desktop management costs up to 50 percent
With Citrix virtualization, IT updates and patches just one copy of each application and operating system in the datacenter, rather than having to manage many on hundreds or thousands of user devices spread all through out the organization. Single instance management drastically reduces operations costs by making IT staff more efficient and virtually eliminating the need to travel to users. It eliminated the need to manage non-corporate devices. With application delivery, it’s fast—new applications are delivered in minutes not months, and updates to applications occur in seconds not weeks.  

Reduce datacenter management and operations costs
Citrix virtualization and networking easily integrate with your existing servers, PCs, networks and storage and makes them more efficient.  For networks, the Citrix Delivery Center can reduce bandwidth needs by 75 percent through compression, caching and optimizations; for servers Citrix Delivery Center can reduce Web server needs by 60 percent by offloading SSL and TCP connection functions; for storage Citrix Delivery Center minimizes storage and image management requirements through on-demand image streaming; and for PCs Citrix Delivery Center can double their useful life through application virtualization.

Virtualization for Business Continuity, M&A, Compliance, Branch expansion
Leveraging application delivery from Citrix Delivery Center, IT can respond to new business requirements much faster, with much lower capital cost requirements.  The centralized virtualization system inherently enables users to work anywhere—so teleworking, off-shoring and outsourcing are accomplished with a simple point-n-click.  Adding new branch offices or integrating an acquired business is also a straight-forward expansion of the existing infrastructure—not a separate, new system with new hardware, software, training and integration.  Compliance and business continuity projects are much easier, and less costly, with application delivery enabled by Citrix Delivery Center.

Leverage Virtualization to Work Anywhere with a Virtual Workforce
Citrix Delivery Center provides easy, secure remote access from any device, on and offline, dramatically increasing user productivity and accelerating business agility. Remote working, tele-working, flex-working, outsourcing and off-shoring are easier with application delivery. Application performance is up to five times faster—reducing response times and providing a familiar, easy-to-use experience no matter where or how applications are used.  Web applications, Windows applications and Windows desktops all work better and faster for users in the office (HQ or remote), when working at home or while travelling.

Secure by design
Citrix Delivery Center provides security that is a built-in property of the virtualization infrastructure from the datacenter through the network to the user, rather than something you bolt on at every tier of computing. Powerful and proven security functions including SSL VPN for secure centralized application access, an application firewall to protect sensitive information from the latest threats, enterprise Single Sign-On for strong password protection, DDoS protection for Web applications and tools to control actions and access to applications and audit user sessions.

Application delivery, desktop management – Defining issues for IT
The market leading delivery systems of Citrix Delivery Center enable IT to dramatically reduce application, desktop and datacenter operations costs, and make current infrastructure more efficient and your business more agile. Industry experts agree the time is right to make the move from static application deployment to dynamic application delivery. Learn how

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