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Citrix Delivery Center — a better approach for end-to-end application delivery
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When you have a vehicle that is not working well and you realise that you need a replacement, what do you do?
Would you buy a bunch of parts and assemble it on your own, or buy a ready-built vehicle that has proven that it works and that all its parts work together? Would you put new, high-performance tires on a vehicle with a failing engine, hoping to improve performance?
This all-too-familiar scenario is being faced by many of today’s enterprise IT departments. You need a new approach: the traditional solution to deploy applications and manage server infrastructure is not meeting the demands of business. It is draining IT resources, impeding operational efficiency, and putting corporate data and regulatory compliance at risk. What choices do you have?
You could buy parts and try to build a solution yourself, resulting in a pieced-together solution whose components were not designed to work together optimally. You could buy a solution that requires massive adaptation of your legacy systems, and still not be certain it will work. You could buy a high-performance point solution hoping that it will supercharge your entire infrastructure, only to find that it causes you additional problems.
However, CIOs in many leading companies are avoiding these problems by making a different choice: Citrix Delivery Center™— a strategic, service oriented approach to application and server management.
Citrix Delivery Center is an application delivery system that lets IT virtualise application resources, manage them centrally, accelerate their performance and securely deliver them to users anywhere. Citrix Delivery Center optimises application delivery from the datacentre to the desktop and improves the way companies provide mission-critical software, operating systems and productivity tools to customers, partners and employees. It transforms static datacentres into dynamic delivery centres.
Citrix Delivery Center gives you the power to keep pace with the constantly changing needs of your business. Rather than a variety of application and infrastructure-dependent architectures, it provides cableTV-like simplicity, with your datacentre acting as a delivery controller, sending desktops and applications to users based on business rules, and the user’s device acting as the desktop and application receiver.
According to independent analyst Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), Citrix Delivery Center is “a unique virtualization architecture that encompasses endpoint datacentre servers and the network that bridges them. With all of these options, large organizations should be able to customize their virtualization strategy based upon their physical assets, user locations, security requirements and operational objectives. Taken as a whole, the Citrix Delivery Center could be tuned to meet all types of business and application needs.” ESG concludes that Citrix Delivery Center “can improve IT operations while providing a dynamic architecture to meet real-time business needs.”
Tim Matthew, technology services manager, BAA—the world’s leading airport company, headquartered in London—has the proof. “We had a large number of legacy applications and didn’t want to have to redesign or redevelop them,” he said. “We wanted to focus on the infrastructure and Citrix enabled us to do that.” For example, the IT cost per seat, which includes core desktop software and hardware, has been reduced by 28 percent. Additionally, service calls have dropped by more than 11 percent and desktop deployment lead times have been halved.
Matthew is not alone in his business situation or in the results that Citrix Delivery Center brings.
“In way too many instances,” said Wes Wasson, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Citrix, “organisations are facing challenges and need to move at a much more rapid pace. Very often the IT infrastructure itself is the limiting factor. There are too many things that are hard-coded together.
“Citrix Delivery Center allows the core components of computing to become dynamic building blocks. Once you have these components freed up from all other constraints, you truly gain the ability to reassemble and couple components in very interesting ways. The user tier of an application can be separated from the data and logic tier, and can be moved around from the endpoint. The data and logic tier can be freed up from conflicts with operating systems or hard-coded underlying server environments. Citrix Delivery Center enables a far more agile IT infrastructure.”
If you, like many technology professionals, are struggling with a problem infrastructure that fails to meet the demands of your business and keeps you besieged with maintenance rather than focusing on the future, then you need a new vehicle. As Tim Matthew and many others have found, Citrix Delivery Center is the right choice to make.
