At Citrix, we’re dedicated to supporting the hybrid-cloud world. With the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service managing your on-premises workloads alongside cloud hosted apps and desktops, you can achieve IT flexibility and scaling that dramatically expands on traditional IT capabilities. Our partnership with Microsoft allows us to deliver an optimized experience with Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop), delivering new workloads quickly and efficiently from the Microsoft Azure cloud while delivering a better ROI compared to Azure Virtual Desktop standalone deployments.
Reducing Costs, Increasing Capabilities
Thousands of IT departments have already seen the savings benefits of moving from a traditional on-premises environments to public cloud hosting. But did you know just how much Citrix can help you save as part of this transition? By deploying Citrix with Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop, you can take full advantage of this new platform for DaaS and VDI, while improving your bottom line.
A virtual desktop deployment has three major cost components:
- Infrastructure costs: Cloud compute, storage, and networking
- Operational costs: Monitoring, image and app management, and helpdesk
- Licensing costs: Operating system, software, and platform
Citrix technologies maximize user density, improve session performance, and, ultimately, reduce your deployment costs. And with Citrix Autoscale, your deployment is intelligently scaled up or down based on usage patterns, optimizing your cloud spending.
Administrators benefit from dedicated tools to reduce time to deployment, simplify image and app maintenance, and streamline daily management. Plus, helpdesk staff can work from a single console, reducing operational costs and improving issue resolution times.
We are excited to showcase two great new resources for customers who are evaluating cloud hosted desktops and want a better understanding of the value that Citrix brings.
Let’s take a closer look.
Calculate Your Savings with Citrix + Microsoft
First, our Citrix + Azure Virtual Desktop cost savings calculator gives you a quick estimate of cloud costs and Citrix savings. This includes your expected ROI on your deployment and validated real-world modeling to illustrate the benefits of a Citrix + Microsoft rollout.
Simply enter your expected user load and workload type, and we’ll do the rest, calculating the Citrix benefits in storage, networking, and compute consumption — as well as the operational and management benefits you’ll see with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service. Designed to give you early insight on the benefits of using Citrix cloud services, we break down the savings into categories to make your cloud desktop decisions clear.
By deploying Citrix with Azure Virtual Desktop, our customers are saving 25 percent or more compared to a standalone Azure Virtual Desktop deployment, or as much as 70 percent compared to a traditional on-prem solution when migrating workloads to Azure, while getting advanced functionality, improved management, and a great user experience.
You can leverage those savings to retire datacenter capacity, accelerate your move to the cloud, or just sit back and enjoy the benefits of our cloud services, allowing you to focus on important business problems instead of managing, monitoring, and patching servers and services.
Get Buy-In from Above with Detailed Cost Analysis
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops has been a fundamental component of software rollouts in datacenters around the world, helping IT control costs by centralizing apps and desktops — all while providing a secure, high performing solution for end users. But making the switch to cloud can bring unknowns compared to a traditional datacenter deployment, raising questions about management, consumption, and maintenance. In addition to tools and guides to help you transition to the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service, we have now analyzed the cost numbers for you, as well. Now, when the CEO asks how cloud migration will impact the bottom line, you can give a clear answer on the financial benefits and management savings.
Our Citrix and Microsoft Business Value and Cost savings analysis examines data from real customer cases to better illustrate the advantages you’ll see by deploying Citrix and Azure Virtual Desktop together.
Using Citrix cloud services, you’ll experience simplified management of your environment, along with operational cost improvements from advanced provisioning, image, and application lifecycle management.
See even more benefits by driving down cloud spending with Citrix optimizations for network utilization, CPU and memory consumption, and storage costs — while delivering a best-in-class solution.
End users will get the benefits of our optimized HDX protocol, with global points of presence for connectivity, delivering a native desktop or app experience, even for challenging workloads.
Together, these tools are helping Citrix administrators worldwide make the case for a switch to cloud, spending less time on the management of their environments while delivering a great employee experience that supports new, flexible work locations.
Talk to your Citrix representative today about a more detailed analysis of your environment and let us help uncover ways you can increase IT productivity, modernize your deployment, and get the benefits of cloud scale — while driving down costs.
Learn more at https://www.citrix.com/global-partners/microsoft/windows-virtual-desktop.html.
