This post was co-authored by Mathew Varghese, Director of Product Analytics at Citrix.

Organizations everywhere are looking to balance delivering a great user experience with cost as they automate and optimize their cloud deployments. Citrix has the tools to empower IT admins to optimize their app delivery performance and security across a hybrid multi-cloud environment, while automating key tasks and management functions so their focus can shift to high-value activities.

Automate and Optimize Your Citrix Infrastructure in the Cloud

With the rapid shift to cloud and remote work over the last six to eight months, IT admins are dealing with unpredictable environments where they often don’t have visibility into the machines or networks people are using or the end-user experience. You may be spending time trying to optimize for cost while scaling cloud resources up or down depending on need

This is where Citrix can help.

We have the tools that can help you to understand your Citrix environment, whether it’s on premises or in the cloud. You get deep visibility into user experience and trends that can drive your decision making and help you to automate infrastructure management and save money.

Citrix Analytics

Let’s take a quick look at two areas where Citrix Analytics can help you to automate and optimize your Citrix infrastructure.

Citrix Analytics for Performance gives you the visibility you need to identify users or groups having a poor experience. User experience scores can show you performance quality at the user level. Not only can you drill down into various data to identify root causes of problems, even before they emerge across your user base, Citrix Analytics can recommend mitigation actions. Machine learning enables Citrix Analytics for Performance to identify patterns in infrastructure, and admins can set up notifications so they know exactly exactly anomalies start to show up in environments.

With more employees than ever working from home, this level of visibility into performance empowers admins to deliver a consistently excellent end-user experience when it’s needed most. And one of the many great things about Citrix Analytics for Performance? You can leverage it with both cloud and on-prem environments and to support your migration efforts.

Citrix Analytics for Security takes this data and generates risk scores for every user. Is there anomalous behavior by an individual user? Many downloads over a short period of time? Attempts at gaining access from various regions? With Citrix Analytics for Security, you can protect your environment in real-time, before trouble hits.

Autoscale

While Citrix Analytics gives you the insights you need to deliver a great user experience and help to keep your environment secure, autoscale in Citrix Cloud makes it easy to manage your Citrix footprint from a single user interface, no matter what infrastructure platform you’re using. Citrix also gives you flexibility in how you manage power to your machines and their availability.

The impact of all this? Significant cost savings that can add up to millions of dollars per year for large organizations.

Check out our Citrix Cloud Summit page and learn how Citrix Analytics and autoscale, both available in Citrix Cloud, can help you to optimize your Citrix infrastructure to enable you to deliver a great user experience at a reasonable cost, all while automating management so you can refocus IT resources elsewhere.

Automate and Optimize Delivery of All Workloads with Citrix ADM Service

Organizations everywhere deliver apps from the cloud to their employees and customers. But cloud is just one component of that equation. In delivering these apps, there are various silos IT admins must worry about securing, managing, and automating — infrastructure, application architecture, services, and others.

Citrix can help you flatten these silos with Citrix Application Delivery Management (ADM) service, unifying app delivery and ensuring consistent visibility and automation. Citrix ADM service is a cloud-based control and management plane for your Citrix ADC infrastructure and gives you essential analytics driven by machine learning. It brings together all app deliver activities, enabling you to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot your app delivery infrastructure across your multi-cloud, on-prem infrastructure and your monolithic and microservices-based apps. It also ensures a centralized and consistent security posture and provides intent-based workflow automation to support speed and simplicity in managing and delivering your apps.

Because Citrix ADM service is cloud-based, it’s easy to manage. The latest features are delivered as soon as they’re available, and pooled capacity centralizes your licensing allocation and management and simplifies capacity migration across clouds. It also gives you a central location where you can define and deploy security policies across your entire Citrix ADC infrastructure.

And because Citrix ADM service was built to deliver insights using analytics driven by artificial intelligence, it can detect issues that aren’t always evident to admins and correct the problems itself. The analytics capabilities also support predictive modeling so you can scale to meet demand before it arrives.

On our Citrix Cloud Summit page, you’ll learn how Citrix ADM service can help you to automate and optimize all your workloads in the cloud by putting everything you need in a single pane of glass, enabling a consistent security posture, fueling intent-based and self-correcting automation with analytics, and speeding your cloud workflows.