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Citrix and IBM Global Services

IBM helps customers ensure tighter security and optimize user experience

“Up-front fact-based planning, with defined business outcomes, is absolutely critical to the success of any desktop virtualization initiative. The Citrix Desktop Transformation Model helps organizations plan, design and implement a desktop virtualization project, matching IBM's consultative approach. We use our unique Smart Business Desktop Cloud offering and methodologies, and Application and Networking Performance Optimization practices to consider the end to end environment - including devices, users, profiles, applications and the network. The result is a comprehensive desktop transformation strategy and plan that improves productivity and mitigates risk in the workplace. Clients rely on our proven architectures, methodologies, best practices and first hand large scale experiences for their successful workplace services projects.”
     Rich Esposito   |   Vice President, WorkPlace Services

Citrix and IBM share a long history together, with over twenty years of close partnership.  Together, our joint approach and reference architectures focus on the work load of each unique user community, to optimize their experience and enable true work shifting.

IBM Global Services provides desktop virtualization products and services—including assessments evaluating user workloads, solution design, implementation and hosting-management—to speed up the time-to-value, ensure tighter security, centralize control and optimize user experience.

Offerings include:  

Smart Business Desktop Cloud Computing Services
IBM Smart Business Desktop cloud computing services with XenDesktop helps organizations quickly and easily overcome the challenges to securely and reliably deliver desktops and applications with the highest performance and user satisfaction at the lowest cost. Learn more.

Application and Network Performance Optimization
Application and Network Performance Optimization, powered by Citrix NetScaler, saves cost by reducing bandwidth, power and server expense. Learn more.

  Simplified service offerings and consulting expertise:
IBM’s decades of experience, complex project management discipline, and knowledge within the end user support environment provides an ideal foundation to help design your comprehensive desktop transformation strategy.

Proven service offerings, including assessments and planning, project based services, and managed services, are tailored to fit your business needs. Knowledgeable desktop virtualization professionals have first-hand experience and the tools to assess, design, and implement large-scale projects. The IBM best practices look at the whole of the enterprise, including the desktop, network, storage, and applications, to integrate hardware, software and services in a flexible and innovation customer solution.  This consultative approach to helping customers transform distributed IT architectures is well aligned with the Citrix Desktop Transformation Model.


IBM is a Citrix Strategic System Integrator and a Citrix Ready alliance program partner.

Contact #IBMalliances@citrix.com for additional information.

Watch the video below to see IBM Global Technology Services showcases how desktop virtualization helps healthcare organizations make the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) more accessible to practitioners, while ensuring security and regulatory compliance.
 

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