Simplicity is Virtualisation

Excessive IT growth has meant that the majority of time and capital are captive in the operation and maintenance of rigid and ageing infrastructure. Business processes have become inflexible, incapable of adapting quickly to new market needs and demands. The complex and costly infrastructure is restricting investment and growth into new, flexible methods of working. The working environment of today needs to be agile and flexible to meet the needs of its workforce, as work should be something you do not a place you go.

Citrix virtualisation creates an end-to-end system that virtualises desktops, applications, and servers, and centralises them in the data centre and broadcasts them to users over any network as an on-demand service. Operations costs can be dramatically reduced and businesses can be made more efficient and agile. Industry experts agree the time is right to make the move from static application deployment to dynamic virtualisation solutions from Citrix.

Citrix virtualisation provides extensive cost savings and efficiency gains across a range of key areas:

• Desktop refresh and growth – Allows for desktop growth in line with your business strategy. Expansions can be easily catered for, whether internally or through mergers and acquisitions. This means rapid deployment of branch offices or quick time to value for mergers and acquisitions. Refreshing your desktops is simpler and migration to new upgrades is made easier.

• Lower cost of desktop and applications – Creates an easier way to rollout new applications whilst lowering support and lifecycle costs. Instead of managing thousands of static desktop images Citrix virtualisation allows for one time, one location, management and update of the OS and applications. Users are able to serve themselves when adding, updating and removing application through the self-service capabilities.

• Compliance and data security – Dramatically improves endpoint security by eliminating the need for data to reside on user devices. Secure management of data, with centralised policies ensuring only authorised users are granted access. Preconfigured policies determine appropriate level of access to grant users based on their role, location, network and device. High performance, standards-based encrypted transmissions are used to provide the highest level of security for both internal and remote users.

• Virtual workforce – Enables mobile working for employees, increasing working flexibility and productivity of the workforce. This also cuts facilities expenses as tele-working and remote working initiatives are effectively deployed. Labour costs can be reduced with secure, productive outsourcing and off-shoring. The flexible working programs can also be used as a competitive advantage to attract and retain key talent. Due to its adaptability, disaster recovery and business continuity are accounted for and down-time is minimised, allowing employees to work and access key information from any device, anywhere at anytime.
   

Click here for the Citrix Case Study on "Bring Your Own PC reinvents The Coporate PC" - published by Forrester

Click here for the Citrix "Consumerisation of IT" June 2010