Citrix Presentation Server
Overview of benefits
Monitor End User Accelerate Apps
Experience
to Branch Users
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Deliver Web
Applications
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Deliver Windows
Applications
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Deliver Desktops
Apps
User
6 Keys to Successful Application Delivery
Enable Secure
Application Access
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User
Apps
Today’s Focus:
Windows Application Delivery
Monitor End User
Experience
Accelerated Access
for Branch Users
Enable Secure
Application Access
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Deliver Windows
Applications
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Presentation Server 4.5 is…
An end-to-end application
delivery system for all Windows
applications, both client/server
and desktop
Lowest Total Cost
of Ownership
Highest Security
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Best Performance
& Scalability
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Key Benefits
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Lowest-cost Windows application delivery
Strongest protection for applications and intellectual property
Outstanding application performance over any network
Rapid application delivery to all users, anywhere
Continuous application availability and reliability
Best end user application experience
Presentation Server is used by more than
180,000 customers worldwide
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Shift from “maintenance” to “strategy”
Strategic
Project
Work
Only 30%!
Improve app
management to
increase time
available for
strategic work…
Business
Process
Management
10%
Hardware
Maintenance
25%
…and reduce time
spent maintaining
applications and
hardware
Application
Maintenance
35%
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Traditional Windows Deployment
16-bit/32-bit
Client components
Desktop apps
Server component
Web apps
Custom apps
Web Browser
Data Center
Desktop
Costly to manage and support
Difficult to secure
Limited in accessibility
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Two Steps to Application Delivery
Presentation Server
First, centralize applications in the data center
Easy to manage and support
Secure and control applications
Deploy and update easily
Presentation Server
Then, choose best delivery method
Virtualize or stream based on user, applications & network
Users
Data Center
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Application Delivery – Virtualization
Client component
Web browser
Desktop apps
Server component
Web apps
Custom apps
Data Center
Application Servers
Presentation Server
environment
Desktop
Centralize and host in data center
Easier to install, manage and support
Secure—Apps and data are protected
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Any Device, Any Network, Any Location
Screen updates sent to
client device
Application executes
entirely on server
Mouse clicks and
keystrokes sent to server
Accessible from any device or
client operating system
High performance over any
connection from any location
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Application Streaming
Application
Profile
Streamed
Application
Data Center
Isolation
Environment
Application Hub
Desktop,
Notebook
Desktop apps are streamed to the desktop
Applications execute locally
Applications are portable—Perfect for laptop
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Analysts concur…
“This latest release of
Presentation Server with both
application virtualization and
streaming technologies provides
even more flexibility for enterprise
Windows customers with large
application portfolios.”
John Humphreys, program director of IDC
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Presentation Server 4.5: New Technologies
Application
Streaming
Isolation 2.0
Application
Hub
SpeedScreen
Progressive
Display
Health
Assistant
Application
Performance
Monitoring
SmartAccess
Single
Sign-on
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Application Streaming
Instant Application Delivery to desktops
• Centrally manage all Windows-based desktop applications
• Streams applications into an isolated environment on
the desktop
• Use them anywhere, anytime even when disconnected
• Automatically updates and repairs applications
• Eliminates application conflicts and regression testing
• Ideal for applications that need local CPU resources
or peripherals
• Presentation Server dynamically selects the best delivery
method – virtualization or streaming
Application Streaming for Desktops add-on licenses available
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Isolation 2.0
Broader application compatibility
• Improves system and application compatibility
• Isolates and protects applications from conflicts
• Provides ability to configure degree of isolation
• Eliminates regression testing
• Next-generation isolation technology
• Increases performance of isolated applications
• Extends compatibility to more Windows applications
• Provides core technology for Application Streaming and
Application Isolation Environments
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Application Hub
Simplifies application inventory management
• Provides central repository for application profiles
• Rapidly provision applications to Presentation
Server or directly to end users’ devices
• Uses the same profile to virtualize or stream
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Application Performance Monitoring
Powered by Citrix EdgeSight™
• Ensures the best end user experience
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Proactively identifies poorly performing applications
Helps IT pinpoint root-cause of bottlenecks
Monitors and records historical application performance
Assists in improving capacity planning
• Reduces support costs
• Collects run-time application crash data
• Measures impacts of changes to production environment
• Assists in tuning custom-built applications
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SmartAccess
Powered by Citrix Access Gateway™
• Improves access experience while maintaining security
• Users can securely access applications from anywhere
• Provides optional full VPN access to authorized users
• Flexible and extensible end-point analysis
• Manages access at the application level
• Policy-based sense and respond
• Controls access to applications based on user, device,
or network
• Restricts application actions, such as print, save and cut/paste
• Select the appliance to fit the environment
• Appliances purchased separately for maximum flexibility
• Complete range to match needed performance and scalability
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Single Sign-on
Powered by Citrix Password Manager™
• Improves application security
• Centralizes and securely stores credentials
• Automatically changes passwords
• Generates strong passwords for policy enforcement
• Reduces help desk calls
• Simplifies application access with automated logons
• Provides self-service password reset
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Health Assistant
System resiliency and availability
• Enhances server reliability and ensures consistent
access experience
• Makes it easier to identify and fix server issues
• Includes default health checks for Citrix and
Microsoft services
• Triggers automated server recovery actions
• Integrates with load balancing to direct users to
healthy servers
• Interoperates with standard system management tools
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SpeedScreen Progressive Display
Up to 20X faster graphics performance
• Accelerates graphics performance over the network
• Ensures great user experience with graphics-intensive
applications
• Protects valuable intellectual property in the data center
• Dramatically reduces cost of delivering
graphics applications
• Lowers bandwidth requirements by 95%
• Delivers to any client device
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x64 Platform Support
Increasing server scalability and utilization
• Increases user density per server—
up to 500 users per server
• Dramatically reduces implementation costs
• Lowers costs of expansion
• Reduces recurring data center costs
• Bridges transition to x64 platform
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Windows Vista Support
Presentation Server client simplifies adoption
• Eliminates application dependencies on
client-side OS
• Removes application compatibility issues
• Enables users to upgrade to Vista and still
use their current applications
Citrix is committed to
enabling customers to
leverage the latest
Microsoft products
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Comparison of New Features by Edition
Advanced Edition
Enterprise Edition
Platinum Edition
Application Virtualization
Enhancements
100+ new and upgraded features
SpeedScreen
Progressive Display
x64 support
Application Streaming
Application Hub
Isolation 2.0
Health Assistant
Performance Monitoring
SmartAccess
Single Sign-On
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Presentation Server 4.5 Platinum Edition
End-to-end system for delivering Windows Applications
Citrix WANScaler™
Apps
User
Accelerate Apps
to Branch Users
Application
Performance Monitoring
Powered by Citrix EdgeSight™
SmartAccess
Powered by Citrix
Access Gateway™
Application Virtualization
and
Application Streaming
Single Sign-on
Powered by Citrix
Password Manager™
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