“The cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing.” – Paul Maritz

Remember when we used cassettes and CDs to listen to music? We had to buy a CD for every album, take care of those CDs so they wouldn’t get damaged, buy an entire album even if we only wanted one song, and make do with a handful of mixtapes when we traveled.

In the past decade, companies like Apple and Spotify have transformed the music industry with their subscription-based models, where we stream music from the cloud. Now, we can get music when and where we want it, without having to keep track of and maintain physical media.

Think Netflix, Evernote, Dropbox. What do these solutions have in common? What we owned previously, is now available on demand from the cloud.

Cloud is everywhere, and it’s the new norm.

Citrix has also taken this cloud transformation journey, introducing the Citrix Application Delivery Management (ADM) service in 2017.

Citrix ADM service is a centralized network management, analytics, and orchestration solution for your Citrix ADC infrastructure, running across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure. From a single platform, administrators can view, automate, and manage network services for scale-out application architectures.

Let’s look at two reasons why you should choose Citrix ADM service.

Reason 1: Alleviate Your Operational Worries

Scalability. Flexibility. Cost efficiency. Business continuity. Think of these as the four chambers that keep the heart of any cloud service (and the Citrix ADM service) beating.

We heard your pain points with a traditional deployment in a data center. No five nines availability. A lack of timely capacity management. High TCO. Too many people required to manage a network. Too much worry about high availability and disaster recovery. Missing upgrades and more.

Citrix ADM service alleviates these pain points and more. Here’s how:

  • Cost efficiency: Citrix ADM service reduces the cost of infrastructure and expertise as you move from a CapEx to OpEx cost model. Citrix also maintains SLAs for you, and you only subscribe to what you need. We manage the show.
  • Business continuity: You can align with hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, providing consistent manageability of and visibility into your applications. The Citrix ADM service agent is updated automatically when new releases are rolled out. And you don’t have to worry about high availability, upgrades, reboots, backups, disaster recovery, and system-prune management
  • Scalability: Worry no more about resource allocation and scalability like you have to with traditional on-prem deployments.
  • Flexibility: You get centralized control and visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.

Reason 2: Data-driven Faster Time to Value

Citrix ADM service brings machine learning and statistical models to your doorstep to deliver faster time to value. Here are the top four features that will help you steer through your day-to-day web app and Citrix ADC management woes more meaningfully and informedly.

The bottom line? Your time is precious. Don’t waste it on operational tasks that the Citrix ADM service can support. Use the ADM service for intelligent analytics use cases to make better business decisions. Give the ADM service a try and explore how a true control plane works.

Get Started

Want to try Citrix ADM service? All you have to do is request Citrix ADM Express access and start exploring. Citrix ADM Express replaces the ADM Service Trial offering and includes the following access:

  • Full feature set for management and monitoring; infrastructure analytics; and pooled licensing
  • Config management (config job and stylebooks), limited to two config jobs/two config pack deployments
  • All analytics and network reporting and network functions, limited to two virtual servers
  • Data retention policy of 500 MB or one day, whichever breaches first