Organizations like yours have many reasons for considering VDI, from providing remote access to Windows apps, to enabling BYOD, to taking a more strategic approach to desktop refresh. As you evaluate your options, you’re probably looking at the industry’s two top solutions for implementing VDI: Citrix XenDesktop and VMware Horizon View. The choice you make will define the business value you drive, so it’s important to go beyond assumptions and first impressions and determine which solution will best help you achieve the goals of your own VDI initiative.
6 Reasons VMware Horizon 6 is a Better Choice than Citrix XenDesktopVMware
27% CAPEX savings, 57% less CPU utilized and 26% fewer IOPS during AV scans. VMware Horizon 6 beats Citrix XenDesktop across the board. Make the switch today and crush the quo.
A well-designed, feature rich VDI solution can make a significant difference in maximizing datacenter resources efficiency, and minimizing unwanted downtime. Failure to do both these things can drive up per user costs and affect user satisfaction. VMware Horizon View 5.2 reclaimed 27 percent of its previously used disk space from its virtual desktop, ran more efficient AV scans, and when deploying VMs, the VMware solution was faster than the Citrix solution by 38 percent. If your business needs to manage the time and resource burdens created by a VDI user base, VMware Horizon View 5.2 on VMware vSphere 5.1 provides strong advantages over Citrix XenDesktop 7 hosted on Citrix XenServer 6.2.
6 Reasons VMware Horizon 6 is a Better Choice than Citrix XenDesktopVMware
27% CAPEX savings, 57% less CPU utilized and 26% fewer IOPS during AV scans. VMware Horizon 6 beats Citrix XenDesktop across the board. Make the switch today and crush the quo.
A well-designed, feature rich VDI solution can make a significant difference in maximizing datacenter resources efficiency, and minimizing unwanted downtime. Failure to do both these things can drive up per user costs and affect user satisfaction. VMware Horizon View 5.2 reclaimed 27 percent of its previously used disk space from its virtual desktop, ran more efficient AV scans, and when deploying VMs, the VMware solution was faster than the Citrix solution by 38 percent. If your business needs to manage the time and resource burdens created by a VDI user base, VMware Horizon View 5.2 on VMware vSphere 5.1 provides strong advantages over Citrix XenDesktop 7 hosted on Citrix XenServer 6.2.
Watch "VDI Performance Assessment - Moving Desktop Virtualization from Test to Best" and learn how a VDI performance assessment can help you baseline your current VDI performance, understand critical bottlenecks, and identify how to optimize your virtual desktop infrastructure for scalability, cost efficiency and peak performance.
VDI or virtual desktop infrastructure technology came up as a solution for companies facing challenges like high cost, huge infra, and less security in operating physical office desktops.
VDI helped businesses enable virtual desktops for their employees with high security, reduced infra, and less cost.
VDI, which creates a virtual environment by segmenting servers into different virtual machines, can be built either on your office premise or from the cloud of a third-party provider.
Understand in this presentation all the past challenges and the advantages of implementing various VDI models in your business.
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IDC and Desktone discuss the dynamics of the cloud, eliminating barriers to VDI, & benefits of moving desktops to the cloud. By moving desktops to a cloud-hosted service model, instead of an internally deployed and managed data center, companies can realize all the promised benefits of desktop virtualization—centralized management, improved data security and simplified deployment— without the exorbitant cost, limitations or hassles of VDI.
VMware solution brief - client virtualization with Dell and VMware HorizonRichard Common
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Watch "VDI Performance Assessment - Moving Desktop Virtualization from Test to Best" and learn how a VDI performance assessment can help you baseline your current VDI performance, understand critical bottlenecks, and identify how to optimize your virtual desktop infrastructure for scalability, cost efficiency and peak performance.
VDI or virtual desktop infrastructure technology came up as a solution for companies facing challenges like high cost, huge infra, and less security in operating physical office desktops.
VDI helped businesses enable virtual desktops for their employees with high security, reduced infra, and less cost.
VDI, which creates a virtual environment by segmenting servers into different virtual machines, can be built either on your office premise or from the cloud of a third-party provider.
Understand in this presentation all the past challenges and the advantages of implementing various VDI models in your business.
This Desktone hosted webinar features IDC's Enterprise Virtualization Software Sr. Analyst Ian Song will discussing how businesses can elevate their desktops to the cloud easily and affordably. Desktops are ripe for change. Windows 7 migrations, mobile devices and cost overruns are driving businesses to seek an affordable and flexible alternative. Until now, cost and complexity have been barriers to implementing traditional Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions.
IDC and Desktone discuss the dynamics of the cloud, eliminating barriers to VDI, & benefits of moving desktops to the cloud. By moving desktops to a cloud-hosted service model, instead of an internally deployed and managed data center, companies can realize all the promised benefits of desktop virtualization—centralized management, improved data security and simplified deployment— without the exorbitant cost, limitations or hassles of VDI.
VMware solution brief - client virtualization with Dell and VMware HorizonRichard Common
With workforces becoming increasingly mobile, organizations are faced with having to protect their most valuable assets: people and data. The ability to ensure employees can be productive and efficient, while protecting data grows more difficult every day. The safest place to maintain that data is within the confines of a centralized location at all times. Desktop and application virtualization keeps important IP and enterprise data centralized, while enabling mobility, BYOD programs, and increased worker flexibility.
Enterprise VDI Solutions For WFH & Remote WorkersHarsh Pahwa
Looking for the best VDI solutions for your workplace? Get enterprise-grade virtual desktops for your work from home regime & start working remotely from anywhere & any time. Get additional services like a free trial & Demo From Ace Cloud Hosting. For more information visit - https://www.acecloudhosting.com/vdi/
Synergy 2015 Session Slides: SYN235 Cost-effective XenDesktop and XenApp Desi...Citrix
Get this slide deck from the SYN235 session at Citrix Synergy 2015 to learn about how you can effectively design cost-effective deployments for the SMB.
Today, employees expect the corporate applications and data to be available to them on anywhere anytime basis. However, tightening of the corporate budgets is forcing IT to reduce operational cost while balancing employee and compliance needs. These business drivers are forcing organization to think new innovative way for redefining their traditional desktop environment.
The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) approach is one the key aspect to meet the demanding business needs and hence VDI technology adoption has been clearly defined on the IT roadmap of many organizations.
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A reference architecture that delivers a low-cost, high performance storage solution that with no-risk consistency and simple management for the virtualization administrator.
What is desktop virtualization and how does it workTemok IT Services
Desktop virtualization allows creating and storing different user desktop instances on a single host, living in a data center or the cloud. It is achieved by using a hypervisor (virtual machine monitor), which lives on top of the host server hardware to run and allows virtual desktops to use the computing power of the basic server hardware.
Read more: https://www.temok.com/blog/desktop-virtualization/
VMworld Europe 2013
Rory Clements, Group Manager, Solutions, VMware
Steven Poitras, Architect, Nutanix
Mark Benson, Senior Staff Engineer, EUC CTO Office
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
VMware@night - Was ist neu in VMware Horizon View 5.3 und Mirage 4.3Digicomp Academy AG
In Kurzpräsentationen und Live-Demos wurden in der Präsentation folgende Themen vorgestellt:
Neuerungen in VMware Horizon View 5.3
- HTML-5-Zugriff
- Grafik-Beschleunigung (vSGA & vDGA)
- Vorschau vSAN-Technologie
Neuerungen in VMware Horizon Mirage 4.3
- Zentralisiertes Image-Management für physische und virtuelle Desktops
- Weitere Use Cases: OS/HW-Migrationen, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Restore
Neuerungen in VMware Horizon Workspace
- Zugriff auf Anwendungen und Daten von jedem beliebigen Gerät
- Zentrale Bereitstellung, Verwaltung und Sicherung dieser Ressourcen durch die IT
Enterprise-Mobility-Management für Android und iOS
Die Aufzeichnung des Referats finden Sie im YouTube-Channel von Digicomp: http://www.youtube.com/user/DigicompAcademy
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Manage Risk by Protecting the Apps and Data That Drive Business ProductivityCitrix
Today you face the challenge of securing a business environment transformed by technologies such as cloud and new workforce requirements such as mobility, BYO and third-party talent.
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Workforce Flexibility Can Drive Greater Engagement & ProductivityCitrix
The nature of work is changing for office professionals as a result of cloud-based technologies, new devices and evolving work practices. Wakefield Research partnered with Citrix to survey nearly 1,300 office professionals in the U.S. to uncover the latest trends and employee expectations around the Future of Work.
Citrix Cloud Services: Total Economic Benefits Assessment GuideCitrix
This paper provides guidance to customers wanting to draw economic comparisons between perpetually licensed Citrix software, and the newer Citrix Cloud service equivalents
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licensed Citrix software, and the newer Citrix Cloud service equivalents.
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SaaS/Subscription approach offers unique technical, financial, and capability benefits.
Citrix is propelling into the future armed with smarter, more efficient, and more secure technology. See what SVP of Product PJ Hough, VP of Product Marketing Calvin HSU, Brad Anderson, and Abhishek Chauhan detailed at the Citrix Synergy 2017 Technology Keynote.
Citrix Synergy 2017: Malcolm Gladwell Innovation Super Session Sketch NotesCitrix
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Digital workspaces
are becoming powerful competitive differentiators in all industries.
That’s because businesses are seeking new levels of agility in
their processes and service delivery methods. They also want
flexibility for their employees.
Comparing traditional workspaces to digital workspacesCitrix
The unprecedented adoption and convergence of mobility, cloud,
virtualization, and cyber security technologies is rendering
Traditional Workspaces a thing of the past. Digital workspaces are
becoming powerful competitive differentiators in all industries as
businesses are seeking new levels of agility in their processes and
service delivery methods and provide greater flexibility for their
employees.
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Eliminate the challenges and complexity of a Windows 10 migration with a virtual desktop solution.
Employees are upgrading their personal devices to Windows 10 at a record rate—and managing and performing a controlled OS migration is no longer in the hands of corporate IT. Businesses need to formulate a strategy to maintain productivity and support their employees regardless of the user’s chosen endpoint device or operating system.
We invite you to take a tour of our new office in Paddington, London, which opened recently at 20 Eastbourne Terrace. Set over two floors with stunning views of the city, this space encapsulates our vision of empowering people to work anywhere and at any time. We hope to welcome you here in person soon… And, don’t forget to check current openings at Citrix UK here: www.citrix.com/careers!
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JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
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Length: 30 minutes
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- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
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- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
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Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
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- Visualization tools to display your network;
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VDI Comparison: Five Reasons XenDesktop beats Horizon View
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VDI Comparison:
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Organizations like yours have many reasons for
considering VDI, from providing remote access to
Windows apps, to enabling BYOD, to taking a more
strategic approach to desktop refresh. As you evaluate
your options, you’re probably looking at the industry’s
two top solutions for implementing VDI: Citrix
XenDesktop and VMware Horizon View. The choice
you make will define the business value you drive,
so it’s important to go beyond assumptions and first
impressions and determine which solution will best
help you achieve the goals of your own VDI initiative.
People often perceive the difference between XenDesktop and Horizon View in
terms of the scope of their capabilities. Horizon View is a one-size-fits-all solution
designed to deliver VDI and nothing else. XenDesktop takes a broader, more
flexible approach to desktop virtualization, acknowledging the considerable
benefits for both users and IT of delivering desktops and apps in the right way for
each use case.
This is accurate as far as it goes. Citrix is an award-winning industry leader
in desktop virtualization in part because of the breadth and depth of the
options it provides for going beyond VDI, as underscored in the latest IDC
MarketScape report. Users prefer XenDesktop over Horizon View because of
the superior efficiency and user experience this flexibility makes possible. But
people sometimes believe that the flexibility of XenDesktop is the only thing that
distinguishes it from Horizon View, and that for a VDI-only implementation, Horizon
View is probably just as good. And that simply isn’t true.
Even ignoring the other virtual desktop and app delivery methods XenDesktop
supports, and comparing it with Horizon View on a VDI-only basis, XenDesktop
emerges as the clear winner. Here are five reasons why.
1. XenDesktop delivers a better experience for Windows apps on
mobile devices
Today’s enterprises need to empower productivity in more places, on more
devices than ever—not just office-bound PCs and thin clients. Providing access to
desktops and apps on any device, including corporate-issued and BYOD tablets,
is a key part of the value of VDI—but only if it’s truly usable. The form factor of
a tablet, with its smaller display and a touch-screen interface in place of a twobutton mouse, can make for a difficult and frustrating experience for Windows
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desktop users. Horizon View does little to extend the value of VDI to mobile
devices, but XenDesktop is designed specifically to deliver a great VDI experience
on any device people use. The Citrix solution leverages HDX Mobile technologies
to automatically re-skin Windows 7 desktops for an intuitive, touch-friendly
experience that allows full productivity on tablets and other mobile devices.
XenDesktop also recognizes that there are times when it’s more efficient for a
user to interact with a single app rather than a full desktop. The ability to host
apps independently from the desktop has always been a critical part of any virtual
architecture, and it’s a central element of the technology DNA of Citrix. When you
find that your enterprise mobility or BYOD strategies call for moving beyond VDI,
XenDesktop will still meet your needs—and Horizon View won’t.
2. XenDesktop VDI can support heavy 3D applications
Many companies are now deciding to virtualize and host 3D applications or entire
workstations in the datacenter in order to improve security, mobility and time to
market. VDI makes it possible to empower users anywhere in the world with realtime access to professional 3D graphics and CAD/CAM applications as well as
real-time collaboration around centrally hosted data.
XenDesktop leads the way in the virtual delivery of 3D professional graphics
applications and workstations. HDX 3D Pro hardware-based GPU sharing of
OpenGL-based 3D professional graphics apps helps ensure smooth graphics
performance, while breakthrough deep compression technologies maximize traffic
throughput over low-bandwidth networks. XenDesktop works with NVIDIA GRID™
technology, which accelerates graphics performance for virtualized desktops and
apps by offloading graphics processing from the CPU to the GPU in virtualized
environments. Unlike XenDesktop, VMware Horizon View is not designed for heavy
3D applications such as CAD/CAM, and VMware does not recommend using
Horizon View for this use case.
3. XenDesktop supports client-side rendering to optimize performance
The PCoIP protocol at the heart of Horizon View is based on a simplistic approach
to VDI: all rendering takes place in the datacenter and none on the endpoint, which
is assumed to be a thin client. This makes it impossible to leverage resources on
endpoints that aren’t thin clients to optimize performance, in particular for video and
graphics apps, and makes VDI less suitable for processing-intensive use cases.
Unlike Horizon View, XenDesktop detects the resources available on the endpoint,
then dynamically adapts to server-side or client-side rendering to ensure optimal
performance for multimedia content including Flash, Windows Media, and AVI
multimedia playback. For mobile users, an H.264 standards-based super codec
efficiently compresses server-side rendered video and graphics for hardware
decode on mobile devices, providing double the frame rate while cutting network
traffic compared to software rendering. Features like these let you deliver a
local PC-like experience for rich multimedia applications delivered via VDI while
conserving bandwidth and server-side overhead.
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4. XenDesktop optimizes network performance for a great
experience anywhere
Delivering a good user experience over a low-latency network connection with
ample bandwidth is the easy part. To support remote and mobile users, your
VDI solution has to be able to perform wherever they work, from distant offices,
hotel rooms and customer sites to ad hoc locations like a highway rest stop or the
sideline of a child’s soccer game. What kind of experience will your users be able
to access in scenarios where bandwidth is in contention, packets are getting lost
and latency is unpredictable?
Lacking strong, integrated remote access, Horizon View leaves you to purchase
and integrate third-party products to complete the solution, increasing complexity
and delivering a less-than-seamless experience for users. XenDesktop addresses
your requirements head-on with integrated networking and WAN optimization. The
Citrix ICA protocol lets you create fine-grained prioritization policies for network
traffic to get the most out of available network resources and maintain high service
levels no matter how people connect—even over mobile broadband or remote
office networks spanning continents.
5. XenDesktop saves time and money with efficient management
and personalization
Personalization and customization help improve both productivity and satisfaction,
especially for power users, by allowing users to install apps and preferences.
On the other hand, a key benefit of VDI is to greatly simplify IT and increase
efficiency through centralization. VMware handles golden image management
and personalization via linked clone technology that customers find complicated
and slow to update, especially with larger VDI deployments. To reduce the patch
management complexity, Horizon View customers often settle for provisioning
desktops from a resource pool that provides a clean virtual desktop each time a
user connects.
XenDesktop customers don’t have to choose between the IT benefits of pooled
VDI and the user benefits of a personalized experience. Citrix Personal vDisk
(PvD) technology makes it possible for users to apply customizations that persist
between desktop sessions so each time they access their virtual desktop, they
can work within the same familiar and productive app environment. At the same
time, XenDesktop with Provisioning Services makes it simple to snapshot and
version images for faster updates and roll backs. This helps customers manage
even large deployments more efficiently while reducing complexity and the cost of
virtual storage.
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