Deliver secure virtual apps and desktops

Over 100 million people are using Skype for Business to communicate for work. According to Microsoft, 79% of enterprise customers in the United States use or plan to use Skype for Business for telephony—and three out of four Citrix customers adopting unified communications have chosen Skype for Business.

Without proper consideration and design for optimization, virtual app and desktop users will very likely find the Microsoft Skype for Business experience to be subpar—but Citrix has the solution. Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops include the HDX RealTime Optimization Pack, developed with and endorsed by Microsoft, which allows you to publish Skype for Business as a virtualized application or within a virtual desktop—with the same performance as a local installation.

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With over a 25-year partnership with Microsoft, Citrix enables you to is prepared to aid you in embraceing a Windows 10 Migration. Employees are rapidly upgrading their personal devices to Windows 10. In order to avoid the challenge of testing app compatibility with a new OS, launching applications from a centralized datacenter with a compatible OS streamlines this process.

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops leverages desktop virtualization, allowing you to manage all desktops at once while rolling out updates, patches, and new applications updates. If you have a necessary app for your operation that is not compatible with Windows 10, Citrix allows you to virtualize that application on a Windows Server and deliver that application to virtual desktop users with Citrix Workspace app. Users gain a seamless experience, and IT can streamline the app deployment process.

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Today’s mobile workforce has increased demand for secure access to mission-critical, high-performing Linux apps and desktops from any device. These Linux resources are essential to many industries, such as those conducting research and development work on chip design, numerical computation for financial and scientific modeling, or providing proprietary Linux-only apps to their engineers and developers.

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops give users secure access to mission-critical, specialized Linux desktops from non-Linux devices. IT administrators can manage both Windows and Linux applications and desktops using a single console to reduce complexity and increase ROI of infrastructure investment by avoiding the need to purchase new hardware.

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Design and manufacturing companies are embracing a new approach to IT. Instead of installing CAD applications on costly high-end workstations, they are moving desktops, apps and data to the datacenter and cloud providers, where they can be securely accessed on-demand by users anywhere. Apps and desktops run centrally on either virtual or physical machines freeing people to work on any device they choose—even a tablet. Network optimizations ensure an experience that looks, feels and acts like a traditional high-end PC no matter what the access type.

The most complete and effective virtualization solution for 3D apps comes from Citrix, the longtime leader in virtualization and mobile workstyles. Accessible on any device, the solution provides compression and graphics acceleration technologies to optimize professional 3D graphics apps over low-bandwidth, high-latency networks. Designed for seamless integration and proven in demanding production environments, the Citrix solution combines high performance with simplicity and manageability unmatched by point solutions or piecemeal strategies.

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With the rising amount of ransomware, malware and data theft attacks originating from users browsing the internet, organizations are looking for solutions to segregate the high-risk web traffic and execution of web code away from the internal, trusted network. To respond to this demand Citrix has launched our Citrix Secure Browser Standard Service. Citrix Secure Browser Standard Service protects the corporate network from browser-based attacks by isolating web browsing. It delivers consistent, secure remote access to internet hosted web applications with zero end-point configuration. By isolating internet browsing, IT administrators can offer end users safe internet access without sacrificing security.

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