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

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

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

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

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 port- folio 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 Internet work since 1984. Our people, products, and partners help society securely connect and seize tomorrow's digital opportunity today.

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