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Control and flexibility: Deploying Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop in a verified cloudChoosing the right technology infrastructure

Introducing Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop in the cloud

Engaging scalable solutions from verified providers

Boosting business value

Finding verified providers

Getting started

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Unfortunately, traditional on-premise information technology:

• Is difficult to scale

• Requires hard-to-find talent to administer and manage

• Delays time to value due to long deployment lead times

• Requires accurate estimates of required capacity, months or even

years in advance

• Demands significant upfront capital expenditures

Cloud technologies offer an affordable, scalable alternative, yet many

companies aren’t ready to shift their entire IT landscapes to the cloud.

Some firms want to host some business-critical applications on-premise,

using their own compute resources. Yet they also want to use an

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering—where a provider owns the

technology equipment and takes responsibility for housing, running and

maintaining it—to host applications and desktops in the cloud. For these

firms, choosing between an all-cloud or an all on-premise solution is no

choice at all.

Citrix can help.

High-pressure, rapidly changing business conditions leave little room for technology solutions that gobble your budget, staff resources and patience. Instead, you need a technology infrastructure that excels at serving the business—a solution that is flexible, simple and cost-effective.

Choosing the right technology infrastructure

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Citrix solutions combine the power of proven virtualization software with the flexibility and simplicity of the cloud. Using a new hybrid cloud provisioning feature in Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop, we make it easy for you to deploy your applications and desktops in the cloud.

With your existing Citrix licenses,

you can deploy XenApp and

XenDesktop servers in the

production cloud of a verified

provider. You get peace of mind and

the option of choosing from among

the best datacenters in the world.

Introducing Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop in the cloud

What BYOL means to youWith the bring-your-own- license (BYOL) model, you can use your existing Citrix XenApp or Citrix XenDesktop licenses and purchase the infrastructure you need directly from the service provider.

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Verified providers from our Citrix Ready IaaS Cloud for XenDesktop program offer a secure IaaS computing environment to Citrix customers. Cloud-ready XenApp and XenDesktop solutions allow you to intuitively virtualize applications and provision desktops for users.

With industry-leading virtualization features, self-aware XenApp and

XenDesktop solutions expand and contract to meet your requirements.

For all IaaS public cloud deployments, capital expenditures are reduced

and agility and ROI improve because you pay only for what you need,

when you need it.

Want to deploy your server farm in the cloud? Need a cloud provider to

manage and administer parts or all of your IT infrastructure? The choice is

yours. As your needs change, the service adapts to meet your requirements.

Engaging scalable solutions from verified providers

Citrix XenDesktop/XenAppHybrid cloud provisioning

Amazon Web Services

Citrix CloudPlatform

Ingredients for an integrated desktop cloud solution

Microsoft Azure

Strengthening information security with virtualizationAs companies embrace mobility, telecommuting and bring-your-own devices, they must ensure enterprise security and compliance while allowing people to optimize business productivity. Citrix desktop virtualization solutions provide centralized control and management, flexible delivery, policy-based control, and endpoint protection. By leveraging desktop virtualization as a security layer, you can manage risk more effectively while providing optimal agility to the business. Learn more about using desktop virtualization to enhance security .

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Enhanced operational flexibility, choice and efficiency

Build the hybrid cloud computing

infrastructure that meets your unique needs.

Avoid having to buy more capacity to deal

with sudden business spikes.

Reduced capital expenditures

Avoid costs associated with ensuring

uptime and maintaining compute, storage

and networking hardware or replacing

old equipment.

Faster speed of service

Quickly meet changing demand for desktops

and applications due to seasonal needs or

organizational growth.

Higher user satisfaction

Provision XenDesktop and XenApp workloads

faster and more efficiently using intelligent

resource management.

Decreased project risk

Deploy applications exactly where they are

needed, on-premise or in the cloud. Public

IaaS gives you the instant ability to right size

your farm, ensuring you always have the right

mix of capacity vs. cost. You no longer need to

guess at how much hardware to buy because

a public cloud already has it racked and

powered on demand.

Maximized choice

Mix and match IT infrastructure components,

blending on-premise and cloud, or choose a

cloud provider by price, feature/function,

location/proximity or areas of expertise.

Improved IT agility

Grow and change your IT infrastructure to

meet evolving business needs.

Enhanced compliance

Meet regulatory mandates for data sovereignty

with services from regional providers. Only a

multi-cloud platform such as a Citrix solution

provides cloud-powered apps and desktop

delivery with capacity via a network of regional

providers across many sovereign locations.

Increased scalability

Auto-scale datacenter resources using Citrix

NetScaler for automatic cross-workload

balancing.

Support for business transformation

Own less and do more with the freedom of a

new hybrid cloud model.

Boosting business valueBy building on the proven value of IaaS solutions, Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop in the cloud offer significant financial, management and operational benefits.

IaaS benefits IaaS and Citrix benefits

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No matter where you do business, we have cloud providers that are verified by the Citrix Ready IaaS Cloud for XenDesktop program .

The Citrix Ready designation is

awarded to third-party partners that

have successfully met our test

criteria. This certification gives our

customers added confidence in the

compatibility of the joint solution.

Choose a provider from your region

or industry, or find one with the

features that match your business

requirements infrastructure. The

choice is yours. As your needs

change, the service adapts to meet

your requirements.

Finding verified providers

See why BT Global Services uses Citrix cloud technology to enable pay-as-you-go solutions that are tailored to its customers’ needs.

Find out how MCPc uses Citrix CloudPlatform to deploy flexible cloud orchestration for its customers’ workloads.

Learn how Zajil Telecom uses Citrix CloudPlatform to extend cloud-based capabilities to its growing client base.

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Learn more about verified providers in the Citrix Ready IaaS Cloud for

XenDesktop program. For more technical information about Citrix cloud

solutions, read about Citrix XenApp and hybrid cloud provisioning

with XenDesktop and XenApp.

Getting started

Citrix portfolio of offeringsOn-premise

*Microsoft Azure Government

Cloud

“The client virtualization software market is not a

one-size-fits-all type of market, and Citrix’s ability to

provide customers with a holistic and flexible solution

is one of the company’s greatest strengths.”—Worldwide Client Virtualization Software 2013 Vendor Assessment, IDC

Revolutionizing workspace delivery with Citrix Workspace CloudWith Citrix Workspace Cloud, the IT team can choose the workspace deployment that is right for the organization. Workspace Cloud will enable IT staff to create services that are delivered on public or private clouds, on-premise or in a hybrid model. This gives IT leaders the ability to make deployment choices that will deliver the best economics, performance and compliance to meet technology requirements. Find out more.

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