Building an Agile IT Environment

Building an Agile IT EnvironmentPatrick Irwin ([email protected])

Product Marketing Manager – UK, Ireland & South Africa

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“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse."

Henry Ford


Businesses Run on Applications

Users Apps


Users Apps

PCs Network ServersManagementSecurity

Traditional Approaches – Application Deployment

Multiple groups, multiple technologies – where is the application control?


Users Apps

A Better Way – Deliver Applications as a Service

PCs Network ServersManagementSecurity

Application Delivery InfrastructureApplication Delivery Infrastructure


ServerVirtualisation

ApplicationVirtualisation

DesktopVirtualisation

ServerVirtualisation

Users Apps

Dynamic Coupling of Users and Apps

ApplicationVirtualizationApplication

VirtualisationDesktop

VirtualizationDesktop

Virtualisation


Operating System

Traditional Hardcoded Windows System

HardwareOperating SystemApplicationsApplications

Virtualised Windows System


Users Apps

XenDesktop XenApp XenServer

NetScaler

Workflow Studio

Citrix Delivery CenterTM


Users Apps


NetScaler

Workflow Studio



Application WorkloadVirtual Infrastructure


Application Workload




Virtual Infrastructure













XenServer

Virtualise

Provision

VM VM VM VM VM

Virtual Servers

Provision

Physical Servers

The only dynamic infrastructure for both physical and virtual servers


Users Apps


NetScaler

Workflow Studio



Users Apps


NetScaler

Workflow Studio





Centralize and host in data centerEasier to install, manage and support

Apps and data are protected

Application Servers

XenAppenvironment

Server componentWeb apps

Custom apps

Data CenterData Center

DesktopDesktop

Client componentWeb browserDesktop apps

Application Virtualisation – Server-Side


Application Virtualisation – Client-Side

Applications are streamed to the desktop Applications execute locally in isolation

Applications can be used offline

ApplicationProfile


Desktop,Desktop,NotebookNotebook

StreamedApplication

IsolationEnvironment

Application Hub


SERVER-SIDESERVER-SIDE


CLIENT-SIDECLIENT-SIDE

PresentationPresentationVirtualisationVirtualisation

ProtocolProtocol

ApplicationHub

Streamed to ClientStreamed to Client

Application Virtualisation


Users Apps


NetScaler

Workflow Studio



Users Apps


NetScaler

Workflow Studio




Desktop Virtualisation with XenDesktop

AppsApps

User User ProfilesProfiles

Desktop Desktop OSOS

Single master image of each

component

Virtual Virtual DesktopDesktop

Dynamically assembled at

runtime

Delivered with best user

experience


Desktop as a

Device


Desktop as a

Service


Desktop as a

Service

Centralised- Management/maintenance- Single desktop, application and

user profiles


Desktop as a

Service

Delivered over high speed protocol

- Run in the Data Centre


Desktop as a

Service

Streamed to device- Uses local processing power


Desktop as a

Service

Streamed to bar metal client hypervisor

- Run on device off/online

Type 1 client hypervisor


Users Apps


NetScaler

Workflow Studio



Users Apps


NetScaler

Workflow Studio



Remote Users Further Away from Apps

Apps Moved into Fewer Centralized Datacenters

Web Protocols Extremely “Chatty”

Increased Security Requirements

Web Application Delivery Challenges


Web Server

Traditional Approaches

LoadBalancer

Internet

Web Application Infrastructure

Security

Caching

Compression

SSL Acceleration

ExcessiveBandwidth


The Citrix NetScaler Solution

Security

Caching

Compression

SSL Acceleration



ExcessiveBandwidth

Internet


7,000+Enterprise Customers

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Users Apps


NetScaler

Workflow Studio



Users Apps


NetScaler

Workflow Studio



Users Apps

Citrix Systems makes IT delivery systems for applications, desktops, and servers



Users Apps


NetScaler

Workflow StudioCitrix Systems makes IT delivery systems

for applications, desktops, and servers


“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse."

Henry Ford


Technology

Building an Agile IT Environment