Citrix Xenapp Product Overview

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Citrix XenApp

Deliver applications as a cost eective,on-demand service to any user, anywhere

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Traditional distributed application deployment has become extremelycomplex and costly. IT struggles to keep up with the continuous updatingand patching o new application releases on hundreds or thousands odevices. Thus, many user devices do not have current versions o applications.Meanwhile, applications and data stored on user devices are not secure and

create conficts which cause devices to slow or crash, increasing costly helpdesk calls and lowering productivity. As a result, IT expenses continue toincrease while IT is continually less able to secure data, maintain a highquality user experience and meet business expectations.

Citrix XenAppCitrix XenApp is an on-demand application delivery solution that managesapplications in the datacenter and delivers them instantly to users anywhereusing any device. XenApp reduces the cost o application management by upto 50 percent, increases IT responsiveness when delivering an application todistributed users, and improves application and data security.

XenApp enables IT to centrally manage a single instance o each applicationand deliver it to users or online and ofine use, providing a high denitionexperience. It delivers 99.999 percent application availability and is proven with25 million applications in production and over 100 million users worldwide.

Simpliy IT managementXenApp centralizes applications in the datacenter to make it easy or ITto implement and deliver applications to any user anywhere, and scaleson-demand to meet ever-changing business needs. XenApp eliminates theneed to perorm extensive application validation and compatibility testing,and reduces post-deployment support. Proactive application perormancemonitoring automatically alerts IT when perormance thresholds have been

reached, providing IT support sta the tools and inormation needed topinpoint and respond quickly to issues.

Optimize application deliveryXenApp provides a fexible on-demand application delivery system thatdynamically selects the best method to deliver applications, based on theuser, application and network. Applications are streamed and run locally ona Windows PC, or hosted centrally in the datacenter, either on multi-userterminal servers or on centralized virtual machines, and delivered via highspeed protocol to any device. XenApp isolates each application to reduceapplication conficts and allows users to access applications even whenofine. With Dazzle, users can subscribe to the applications they need, whileIT remains in control over user access. XenApp ensures that users have aconsistent, high denition experience regardless o location or device.

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Accelerate application perormance and

IT responsivenessThe centralized architecture o XenApp accelerates application perormanceover any network connection and on any device. HDX technologies increaseapplication perormance up to 15 times and ensure LAN-like speeds romanywhere. XenApp delivers new applications to users in seconds, andapplication updates are perormed once and instantly rolled out to users.XenApp enables IT to assign resources to ensure the highest levels operormance or critical users and applications. It proactively monitorsperormance to help IT identiy potential issues and preempt perormancebottlenecks, ensuring 99.999 percent application availability.

Key eatures

Sel-service applicationsXenApp automatically determines the most optimal and secure method ordelivering applications to users based on device capabilities, user permissions,network perormance, connection location and security prole. Applicationsare either streamed or ofine use or run centrally in the datacenter anddelivered via a high speed delivery protocol to any device when a user isonline. Applications are delivered to users through a personalized and easyto use sel-service storeront that is available 24x7.

Any device, anywhere

XenApp provides users instant and secure access to their corporateapplications and data rom whichever client operating system or device ismost convenienta desktop or laptop PC, Macintosh, thin clients and evenmobile devices such as the iPhone, Windows Mobile or Android.

High defnition user experienceXenApp delivers a high-perormance, high denition experience on anynetwork. XenApp HDX technologies provide ast, advanced graphic andmultimedia perormance regardless o the capabilities o the endpointdevice. Users are ensured a seamless experience with zero downtime andhigher overall productivity.

Secure by designXenApp is the most secure architecture or delivering applications becauseo centralized application delivery. It keeps data in the datacenter whiletransmitting only screen updates, mouse clicks and keystrokes over thenetwork. It lets IT administrators assign application access, print andstorage policies or specic applications and user groups, ensuring thatvaluable inormation remains secure.

With XenApp, we need only20 minutes to make updatesor new applications available

across the entire service area.Achim Manz-Bothe,Head o Systems Technology,

ZRWest GmbH

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About Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider o virtualization, networking and sotware-as-a-service (SaaS)technologies or more than 230,000 organizations worldwide. Its Citrix Delivery Center, Citrix Cloud Center (C3) and CitrixOnline Services product amilies radically simpliy computing or mi llions o users, delivering applications as an on-demandservice to any user, in any location on any device. Citrix customers include the worlds largest Internet companies, 99 percent oFortune Global 500 enterprises, and hundreds o thousands o small businesses and prosumers worldwide. Citrix partners withover 10,000 companies worldwide in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1989, annual revenue in 2008 was $1.6 billion.

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Single instance managementXenApp eliminates the need to install or manage applications on distributedendpoint devices. The centralized architecture enables IT to store, maintainand update applications and server images once in the datacenter and deliver

them on-demand to users. This simplies management, avoids applicationconficts, makes it easy to provide real-time updates and signicantly reducesthe requirements or patches and upgrades.

Enterprise-class scalabilityXenApp is proven to support more than 100,000 users, scale beyond 1,000servers in a single implementation and ensure 99.999 percent applicationavailability. The enterprise-class oundation coupled with centralizedmanagement, monitoring and automation tools enables rapid response tobusiness and user needs.

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