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Citrix Workspace Appliance Simplify your virtual desktop environment while boosting performance with Cisco HyperFlex for Citrix services — a Citrix Ready verified solution — from Cisco

Digital transformation is quickly impacting every industry, making it increasingly difficult to keep pace with an evolving digital workplace. Many businesses, especially those with smaller IT teams and lower budgets, struggle with implementing new solutions and delivering enterprise-level services like desktop and BYOD. To overcome these challenges, Cisco and Citrix partner to create Cisco HyperFlex for Citrix Cloud services, a tightly integrated solution that makes it easy to virtualize your desktop apps and data on a central platform. For businesses of all sizes, satellite facilities, and branch offices, Citrix and Cisco help you centralize control of your desktop environment, quickly adapt to changing business conditions, and run your desktop operations more efficiently.

Many businesses today are finding that the deployed, maintained, and leveraged for day-to-day minutia of managing desktops competitive advantage by existing IT staff. individually consumes way too much staff Cisco HyperFlex for Citrix Cloud services time and diverts focus from activities that from Citrix and Cisco provides an easy and add value to their business and maintain cost-effective way to help you digitally their competitive edge. To successfully stay transform your desktop environments. ahead of the competition industry leading companies digitally transform their Centralize Control of Your Desktop businesses to be more agile, cost-efficient, Environments and competitive. Virtualizing desktop As part of the Citrix Ready Workspace environments is a major step forward in the Appliance Program, Cisco HyperFlex for path to digital transformation. But if you’re Citrix Cloud services integrates everything like other small to medium enterprises, you need to quickly and cost-effectively you're probably straining to support an virtualize your desktop environments and expanding number of desktops and mobile centralize management. It frees you from devices running on a collection of inflexible the constraints of time, budget, headcount, older networking and server technologies. and skills that might have prevented you You need a way to more efficiently manage from implementing virtualized desktops in desktops, as well as leverage technologies the past. like cloud. Virtualize your desktop environments Traditionally, without the complexity and expense. With infrastructure can be complex and cost Cisco Hyperflex for Citrix Cloud services, prohibitive. People with the skills to deploy you can deploy scalable, secure, fully and maintain the technology are difficult to integrated hybrid cloud virtualized desktop find and highly paid. Companies or remote environments in hours, not days. Complete locations like yours need affordable app desktop environments that empower your and desktop virtualization environments, users with anytime, anywhere access to with centralized and automated desktop their apps, desktops, and data can be management, that can be efficiently

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Citrix Cloud Active Citrix Directory Studio Citrix Cloud Connector

Delivery controllers Citrix Cloud Connectors Desktop Cisco HyperFlex VDI for Citrix VDAs

Citrix Director

Server VDAs

Citrix License SQL Citrix Gateway server StoreFront Citrix Workspace app Operated by Citrix Managed by customer or partner Virtual apps Virtual desktops

A logical view of the Cisco HyperFlex for Citrix Cloud services solution

Solution Components provisioned with a few mouse clicks You control the access and the data. Your — without the need to hire staff skilled in data is no longer scattered around Cisco app and desktop virtualization software the world on unprotected devices with • HyperFlex HX220c and infrastructure. traveling, remote, and branch office employees. Centralized management, • HyperFlex HX240c Citrix manages the app and desktop automated workflows, and rich reporting virtualization in the cloud, and Citrix functionality also make it easier to all of the required compute, storage, and Citrix Cloud maintain security and compliance. network infrastructure is pre-integrated • and Desktops and pre-tested in the Cisco Hyperflex HCI Quickly Adapt to Changing Business appliance. With Citrix managing the core Conditions components of Virtual Apps and Desktops The in the cloud, you don’t have to worry about Scale quickly and cost effectively. scale-as-you-grow solution provides the performing most of the product ability and flexibility to scale up and down installation, setup, configuration, upgrades, to support your workforce. Whether you’re and monitoring. increasing or decreasing the workforce, Streamline desktop management and making seasonal adjustments, or adding operations. Automated, centralized control contractors, you can purchase more of your desktop images lets you respond licenses, add more HyperFlex nodes, and quickly to increases in demand, provide provision additional virtual desktops with faster provisioning, create a better user just a few clicks. experience, and reliably deploy desktop resources. It also greatly reduces costly, Improve workforce mobility and Stay ahead of the time-consuming operations like physically boost productivity. competition by providing your users secure installing and patching operating systems access to the apps, data, and computing and apps, updating firmware, and horsepower they need, wherever they are, synchronizing data on each device. You can on whatever device they prefer including deploy, manage, and scale with point and Mac, Chrome, Linux, and a whole suite of click operations for common workflows, mobile devices. Cisco HyperFlex delivers and hundreds or thousands of desktops powerful on-premises infrastructure that can be provisioned from a single standard easily adapts to changing user needs and image. supplies the performance required for their Strengthen security and compliance. With mission-critical workloads. virtualized apps and desktops, apps and data reside on premises under your Increase Efficiency control — behind your security layers — and Reduce TCO. With Cisco Hyperflex for users interact with the apps and data Citrix Cloud services, you don’t have to through an encrypted connection. worry about over provisioning, you only buy

Citrix.com | Cisco.com | Solution Brief 2 what you need. The scale-out architecture and complexity of deploying and managing allows you to add only the amount of virtualized desktop environments. It also server, storage, and networking resources reduces many of the risks associated with A Powerful Solution you need in manageable cost increments. migrating to app and desktop virtualization. In addition, Citrix Cloud services support • Simple, fast, and secure way to deploy • Reduce downtime. Cisco HyperFlex for and scale apps and desktops using virtual the HyperFlex scale-out architecture Citrix Cloud services is pre-integrated, workspace appliances and Citrix Cloud model with subscription-based pricing. tested, fully validated, and supported by • Integrated, tested and validated for Because the Citrix software is delivered Citrix and Cisco. You plug it in and compatibility with Citrix technology by as-a-service, you don’t need to hire everything works reliably under load. Citrix Ready expensive IT specialists to manage it. All of You don’t have to worry about complex your virtual desktops, data, and apps are in integrations, downtime, and finger • Industry-leading density in a 2U form an easy-to-manage HCI appliance on your pointing caused by multi-vendor factor premises. Using the centralized, automated infrastructure issues. • High-performance user experience management functionality, your • Streamline OS and app upgrades. • Up to 3 TB memory administrators can manage most work- Centralized virtualization management flows with a few clicks, significantly tools enable point and click migration for • All flash memory or hybrid (HDD and SSD reducing the cost of managing desktops. memory) storage OS and app upgrades, where thousands Having hyperconverged compute and of desktops can be provisioned or • Auto-updates and health checks for storage in the same appliance eliminates updated almost instantaneously once Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops core the need for storage networking standard desktop environments are software and components appliances and saves a considerable defined. amount of power and space compared to ESG 2017 Testing vs HCI Competition • Simplify BYOD migration. Because it traditional virtualized desktop • 3x reduced read/write latency decouples the application from the environment implementations. Desktops device, virtualized desktop • 7:1 reduction in IOPS variability can be replaced by monitors and keyboards environments make it easy to manage • 3x higher VM density for further power savings. data and apps across a wide variety of ESG 2018 Testing vs HCI Competition Free IT staff to work on strategic projects. platforms including iOS, Android, Cisco HyperFlex for Citrix Cloud services Windows, and Chrome-based devices. • 96% higher VM-level performance hides the complexity of underlying consistency virtualized desktop infrastructure. Move to a Digital Workspace Today • 3x lower latency IT generalists on your existing staff can Cisco HyperFlex for Citrix Cloud services create complete virtualized desktop • 2x more IOPS is the simplest, fastest, and most secure environments from power-on to desktop way to deploy and scale virtual apps and deployment in 2 hours or less, freeing desktops to help digitally transform them to work on projects that improve and your business. Visit the links below to enhance your value chain. learn more about Citrix, Cisco, and Reduce cost, complexity, and risk. Citrix Cisco HyperFlex for Citrix Cloud services. delivers the virtualized desktop • https://citrixready.citrix.com/cis- environment software from the cloud and co-systems-inc/cisco-hyperflex-for-ci- the HCI appliance simplifies the on-premise trix-cloud-services.html server, storage, and networking infrastructure. This vastly reduces the cost • https://www.cisco.com/go/citrix

About Citrix Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) aims to power a world where people, organizations and things are securely connected and accessible to make the extraordinary possible. Its technology makes the world’s apps and data secure and easy to access, empowering people to work anywhere and at any time. Citrix provides a complete and integrated portfolio of Workspace-as-a-Service, application delivery, virtualization, mobility, network delivery and file sharing solutions that enables IT to ensure critical systems are securely available to users via the cloud or on-premise and across any device or platform. With annual revenue in 2015 of $3.28 billion, Citrix solutions are in use by more than 400,000 organizations and over 100 million users globally. Learn more at www.citrix.com. About Cisco Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that has been making the work since 1984. Our people, products, and partners help society securely connect and seize tomorrow's digital opportunity today.

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