Burn 40% off your desktop management
costs
The Citrix Delivery Center changes
everything
Citrix
Update Briefing – 2nd April 2009
Our
IT desktop virtualisation briefing
will show you how to reduce substantially your applications
rollout costs!
With desktops representing a significant portion of IT spend and
application delivery a huge overhead, it is now time
to change the
game. Citrix Delivery Center has come of age.
Agenda
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09:00
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Registration and
Coffee
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09:30 |
Welcome & Introduction
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09:40 |
Delivering IT applications
at the lowest cost using XenApp
5, including what’s new and
why Platinum is the best value edition in the XenApp range
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10:30 |
Coffee
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10:45 |
Exploiting the combined power of XenApp and XenDesktop for
application and desktop virtualisation to cut desktop costs
by 40%
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11:30 |
Introducing
Branch Repeater – high definition experience for all XenApp
users |
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12:00 |
Secure user access to applications |
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12:20 |
Round-up |
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12:30 |
Lunch
Optional:
Licensing talk as you lunch |
Delivering IT applications at the lowest cost using Citrix® XenApp™
Platinum Edition
Citrix®
XenApp™ 5, the #1 solution for application
virtualisation, can
beat having applications installed locally. Applications start up to 10 times
faster, the user experience is dramatically improved and application management
costs are lowered by more than 25% over previous versions.
Cut 40%
off desktop costs with Citrix® XenDesktop™
With PC performance deteriorating over time, Citrix®
XenDesktop™, the next generation of desktop virtualisation,
dynamically assembles virtual desktops on-demand to give users a
new and personalised desktop each time they log on – and without
degradation. This new degree of simplification of desktop
management saves time and money.
Delivering critical IT
services
to employees in the field with Citrix
Branch Repeater™
Learn how to deliver securely a high definition experience to
all XenApp users while reducing application delivery costs.
We will show you
how organisations like yours are cutting their IT costs by up to 40% and
are realising the potential
of desktop virtualisation. Register today to attend our morning
briefing, in conjunction with Citrix UK, taking place in London on
Wednesday, 2nd April.
The future of application delivery is here. Learn
about...
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What some
customers are doing today with next generation desktop
virtualisation
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Improved
security from consolidation and better manageability of your
desktop through standardisation
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Sharing the
enriched user experience with users far and wide
Virtualisation, with its ability to deliver
end-to-end business intelligence through better application performance,
is already influencing the way in which many enterprises are doing
business. The technology is improving how businesses connect their users
to applications by shifting resources to where they can best meet
performance demands.
IDC expects the virtualisation sector to
grow by 113% over the next four years, with the size of the global
virtualisation services market in monetary terms projected to grow from
$5.5 billion in 2007 to $11.7 billion by 2011. Such anticipated growth
highlights the importance of this technology’s ability to use existing
hardware to house the tools that can address business needs.
Citrix has translated its
end-to-end application delivery vision into the Citrix Delivery Center™, the only comprehensive
end-to-end application delivery infrastructure available
on the market. Businesses are starting to use data
centres as delivery centres, rather than traditional
storage houses for applications and operating systems.
Citrix Delivery Center™
The Industry’s First
End-to-End Application Delivery Infrastructure System
Industry analysts advise that traditional
application deployment is too complex, too static, and costs too much
just to maintain, let alone try to keep up with changes in the business.
A
Dynamic Application Delivery System
Citrix offers a new and different approach – Citrix Delivery Center –
the first solution on the market that delivers applications and desktops
to any user, anytime, anywhere from a secure central location. Citrix
Delivery Center’s market leading application delivery technologies
enable IT to dramatically improve agility, while enabling the best
performance and highest security at the lowest cost.
Citrix XenApp Product
Information
Citrix XenApp™ 5, is the next generation of
the world’s most widely-deployed application virtualisation solution.
The new release of the Citrix flagship product breaks through
performance and operating-cost barriers, making application start times
up to 10 times faster, dramatically improving user experience and
lowering application management costs by more than 25 percent over
previous versions. In total, XenApp 5 introduces more than 50 new major
enhancements and is the best solution for delivering all Windows
applications to both connected and mobile users.
Citrix XenDesktop - Desktop
virtualisation solution
For IT organisations, desktop management is
manual, time-consuming and expensive. Ensuring data security and
regulatory compliance is complex when desktops are distributed around
the globe. Business continuity is difficult to implement when users are
tied to their physical PCs. The longer users keep their PCs, the more
that performance degrades as patches and application updates inevitably
cause bloat. The alternative is to replace or re-image the machines,
meaning disruptions and loss of productivity.
Is
desktop virtualisation the answer?
First-generation desktop
virtualisation technologies enable the centralisation of desktops by
creating virtual desktops in the data centre, which makes them easier to
secure and backup. However, many of the same desktop lifecycle
management issues persist – IT still needs an efficient virtual desktop
manager to manage, maintain and update each virtual desktop image, along
with all its installed applications and user settings. In addition,
many first attempts at desktop virtualisation introduced new challenges
– most notably, degraded user experience over networks and the high
costs of networked storage needed for each user’s desktop image.
Desktop
delivery – the next generation of desktop virtualisation
Citrix XenDesktop™ offers a next-generation,
user-centric desktop virtualisation solution that provides a complete
system for desktop delivery. XenDesktop dynamically assembles virtual
desktops on-demand, providing users a new and pristine, yet
personalised, desktop each time they log on – ensuring that performance
never degrades. In addition, XenDesktop’s high-speed delivery protocol
provides unparalleled responsiveness over any network which helps in
desktop optimisation. For IT organisations, XenDesktop greatly
simplifies desktop lifecycle management and radically drives down cost
of ownership by separating the delivery of the desktop OS, applications
and user settings.
Citrix
XenServer 5
Any
Server. Anywhere. Anytime.
Citrix XenServer™ is server virtualisation
that makes datacenters more agile and efficient through faster
application delivery, higher levels of availability and improved
utilisation of IT resources.
XenServer delivers the advanced features
required by mission critical workloads without sacrificing the
ease-of-use necessary for wide-scale deployments. The unique
provisioning technology of XenServer can rapidly deliver workloads
across virtual or physical servers making it the ideal virtualisation
platform for every server in the enterprise.
Uniquely open
XenServer is based on the open source Xen®
hypervisor, an exceptionally lean technology that delivers low overhead
and near-native performance. Leveraging both Intel® VT platforms and
AMD® Virtualisation (AMD-V™) platforms for hardware assisted
virtualisation, XenServer delivers faster, more efficient virtualisation
computing. Unlike other virtualisation products that are built on
closed proprietary systems, XenServer’s open APIs allow customers to
access and control advanced functions from their existing server and
storage hardware.
Radically simple
Citrix establishes a new standard in
ease-of-use by including new configuration wizards, intuitive interfaces
and easy point-and-click conversion of physical servers into virtual
machines. Experience 10 to Xen as it only takes 10 minutes to install
and configure XenServer. XenServer gives administrators the visibility
to easily keep track of virtual machines as they proliferate across
large datacenters. Web 2.0 style tagging and searching capabilities
allow IT professionals to assign metadata and virtual tags to workloads,
either pre-defined or customised to each organisation’s needs. XenServer’s
performance monitoring, reporting and alerting dashboards make it easy
to see both real-time and historical views of virtual machines and
physical host performance over long periods of time with virtually no
storage or performance overhead.
Seriously powerful
Ready to get serious about server
virtualisation? Building on long list of proven enterprise-class
features such as live migration, resource pooling and workload
provisioning, the newest version of XenServer adds more than 100 new
virtualisation enhancements including advances in high availability (HA)
and disaster recovery. These capabilities include the industry’s most
advanced HA, auto-restart and failover technologies that can be
seamlessly upgraded to full fault tolerance for the most
mission-critical applications.
If you
would like more information about this event or would like to register,
please contact us on 020 7427 2550.
We look
forward to seeing you on the day.
