Citrix XenDesktop Product Overview

Delivering desktops as a service to users anywhere

Reduces desktop TCO by 40% Increases business agility Improves security XenDesktop is a state-of- the-art product for hosted desktop virtualization and may be the gold standard by which other products are judged in a feature-for- feature comparison XenDesktop, unlike many other VDI tools on the market today, runs with any of the major three server virtualization technologies. This makes it a clear winner in our book. Xen and the Art of Hosted Desktops Virtualization Review, January 1, 2009 With XenDesktop we can guarantee that the users will get a complete Windows XP experience, with all their applications, exactly like having a local PCeven over geographical distance. Telefonica O2 Germany

Distributed desktop management has become extremely complex and costly. IT struggles to keep up with the continuous updating and patching of endpoints to maintain every new OS and application release, and to secure and backup data at every endpoint. Thus, many user devices do not have the current corporate desktop, lowering productivity, and corporate data on desktops is not secure, putting the business at risk. IT is under pressure to undertake expensive PC refreshes every three to four years just to keep up. Meanwhile, shrinking budgets are reducing the ability to buy and update new PCs, and invest in support tools and personnel.

Citrix XenDesktop
Citrix XenDesktop is a desktop virtualization system that centralizes and delivers desktops as a service to users anywhere, reduces desktop TCO up to 40 percent and improves data security by centralizing desktop lifecycle management in the datacenter. It delivers a high definition user experience, providing high quality media streaming and graphics display over any connection including high latency wide area networks. The open architecture of XenDesktop offers choice and flexibility of virtualization platform and endpoints. Unlike other desktop virtualization alternatives, it simplifies desktop management by using a single image to deliver personalized desktops to users anywhere and enables IT to manage service levels with built-in desktop performance monitoring. With XenDesktop, IT has the flexibility to stream desktops directly to workers PCs in the office, or host desktops for workers anywhere.

Optimize user experience

Deliver a high definition user experience, with better performance and reliability than a traditional PC, complete with multimedia, graphics and USB peripheral support. Desktops and applications are always up-to-date and always available, so users get instant access to their personalized desktops.

Accelerate desktop provisioning

Instantly provision desktops to virtual machines or blade PCs with the unique desktop provisioning feature. Users can access their new desktops from anywhere on any device. IT can quickly update and patch OS and applications by simply updating the single OS image.

Editions
XenDesktop has five editions designed to enable everything from enterprise-wide desktop delivery to small, entry-level implementations. Platinum End-to-end desktop delivery solution with virtual application delivery, for the most flexible user access, complete performance monitoring and QoS capabilities, and remote virtual desktop support. Enterprise Integrated enterprise-ready system for cost-effective scalability, including virtual application delivery. Advanced Integrated enterprise-ready system for cost-effective scalability, without virtual application delivery. Standard Entry-level desktop virtualization. Express Limited, 10-user trial environment available for free download at www.citrix.com.

Simplify desktop management

Dramatically slash costs from previously time-consuming and labor intensive desktop lifecycle management tasks. From one master Windows image and one standardized set of corporate applications, IT can manage thousands of desktopswhether hosted in the datacenter or streamed to the endpointas easily as they manage a single desktop.

Features and benefits

Best desktop TCO Centralized lifecycle management Manages desktop lifecycle in one location, simplifies desktop provisioning, patching, security and updates, and saves more than 25 percent over traditional distributed desktops. Reduces costs by enabling the use of thin client which offers minimal endpoint maintenance, lower power consumption, longer hardware lifecycles and the ability to repurpose aging devices.

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Platinum

Lower TCO desktop appliance

Single image desktop management Desktop streaming Streams standard desktop image to standardized PCs and thin clients without additional server investment, easing migration to centralized computing. A single master image used by many virtual desktops removes the need for storing and managing hundreds or thousands of unique desktop images. Desktops are provisioned from a single, central image, so users get a pristine, personalized desktop with the latest updates at each logon. Patches and updates need to be applied only once to the single master image and all users get the latest desktops at next logon.

Desktop hub

Instant provisioning

Centralized updates and upgrades Real-time desktop assembly Instant image provisioning

Provisioning new users is as fast and simple as creating an Active Directory user account and associating the account with a standard desktop image. Users get the specific line-of-business and productivity applications they need delivered to their virtual desktops.

Role-based access to applications

Features and benefits

High definition user experience Better than PC performance HDX Broadcast Personalized desktops include the latest updates and eliminate application conflicts. Network and display optimizations and performance boosting technologies deliver the best performance over any network. Provides enhanced Windows Media performance for virtual desktops. Lets workers connect many common USB devices to their hosted virtual desktops. Allows users to graphically display and visualize (as well as stretch) their applications and data across multiple monitors concurrently. Users can easily request support and the help desk can view the users screen and take control of the desktop to quickly resolve issues. Users can pause desktops sessions and resume working from different locations at exactly where they left off.

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HDX MediaStream HDX Plug-n-Play

One-click help desk support

SmoothRoaming

Built-in virtual applications Citrix XenApp for virtual desktops Offload resource intensive applications Proven application delivery platform Secure by design Centralized data control Centralized control policies ensure that the correct users connect to their desktops and that only screen updates, mouse clicks and keystrokesnot datatransit the network. High performance, standards-based encrypted transmissions are used to deliver desktops using SSL technology to both internal and remote users. Enables and enforces secure tokens and smartcard authentication to all Windows desktops. Streamed and hosted applications enable separation of applications from the desktop image, providing greater flexibility and simpler management. Heavy line-of-business applications can be hosted to offload virtual desktop resource consumption. Over 215,000 customers have proven the platform in daily usage with over 1 million applications estimated to be in use in production environments with over 100 million users.

Encrypted delivery

Multi-factor authentication

Service level assurance User performance monitoring Rapid problem resolution Captures and reports performance at the user level to warn of and proactively resolve issues. Real-time monitoring at the server and user levels quickly determines causes of performance issues while remote support access to users desktops speeds resolution. Protects against host-level failures and migrates virtual machines between servers to ensure high availability and failover.

High availability and failover

Open architecture Hypervisor agnostic Host desktops on Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware ESX and manage virtual machines with built-in integration. Streams standard desktop image to existing PCs without additional server investment, easing migration to centralized computing. Users can access their virtual desktops from any client device, including Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Many desktop appliance vendors provide out-of-the-box integration with XenDesktop.

Desktop streaming

Any user device

Citrix Delivery Center is an application delivery system that transforms IT into an on-demand
service by centralizing the management and delivery of applications and desktops. It simplifies IT operations by managing a single image of applications, desktops and servers, accelerating application roll-outs and reducing IT operating costs up to 50 percent. The Citrix Delivery Center product family includes Citrix XenServer Citrix XenDesktop , Citrix NetScaler and Citrix XenApp , .

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Citrix XenServer is open, powerful server virtualization that radically reduces datacenter costs by transforming static and complex datacenter environments into more dynamic, easy to manage server workload delivery centers. Citrix XenDesktop is a desktop virtualization system that centralizes and delivers desktops as a service to users anywhere, and reduces desktop TCO up to 40 percent. Citrix NetScaler makes Web applications run five times better by single-handedly offloading servers, accelerating performance and integrating application security. Citrix XenApp is a Windows application delivery system that manages applications in the datacenter and delivers them as an on-demand service to users anywhere. The Citrix Delivery Center includes: Citrix Access Gateway A secure application access solution that provides administrators granular application-level policy and action controls to secure access to applications and data while allowing users to work from anywhere. Citrix Branch Repeater An integrated branch office appliance that delivers LAN-like application performance over the WAN, while reducing bandwidth requirements and the number of servers required in each location.

About Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery. More than 215,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100 percent of the Fortune 100 companies and 99 percent of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 8,000 partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was $1.4 billion.
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