IMPROVING APPLICATION DELIVERY:

CITRIX XENAPP/XENDESKTOP
 VDI Continues to be a Valuable Investment
Top benefits sought from VDI

38
Barriers to implementing VDI
% Simplify OS

21 % Initial capital
costs
management

17 % Low IT priority
37 % Simplify
application
management

14 %
Required changes to
desktop deployment
& management
26 % Disaster
recovery/
preparedness

policies

Source: - IDC, Understanding Adoption

Trends and Storage Requirements of
Virtual Desktop Environments, doc
#231220, November 2011.

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 Addressing User Challenges Is Key to a Successful VDI
Deployment and User Adoption

Reliability
Unreliable user
Mobility experience Security
Lack of mobility between Multiple points of
devices and applications access control

Complexity Performance
Operational complexity of
Poorer than expected
traditional architecture
performance

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 F5 Makes Citrix VDI Better
F5 is the application delivery market leader. Citrix is the VDI market leader.
Together, we deliver a best-of-breed application delivery solution.
Multi vendor support Commitment to the Citrix
community solutions “F5 has been great about
keeping up with XenApp
• TSANet creates multi vendor support • Easy to deploy and integrate with F5
relationships iApps for Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop changes and support has
• Citrix & F5 both members, providing • Citrix-specific application monitors been excellent from both
24/7 collaborative support provide simplified deployment, vendors.”
• Simplifies complexities, reduces costs configuration, and management for
and time Citrix VDI Simon Blackstein,
• Increase customer satisfaction by • F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition for Citrix Corporate IT Infrastructure,
helping customers solve issues XenServer Facebook
• Policies, procedures and infrastructure
in place for multi-vendor support

F5 makes Citrix VDI better Optimize the Simplify infrastructure Unify access
by enabling you to… user experience and reducing costs control and security

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 F5 Can Significantly Improve Your Citrix Virtual
Desktop Environment

Optimize Simplify Unify

the experience infrastructure and access control
for your users reduce costs and security

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 Optimize Your User Experience

Seamless experience from multiple devices including

iPhone, iPad, Android

Access multiple applications from a universal

portal with single sign-on

Optimize real-time applications like video, audio, and VoIP

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Seamless Experience with a Universal Portal
• Webtop unites internal and
external application resources
across your Enterprise

• Provides seamless
presentation and access to
Windows, Web, SaaS, Mobile
Applications and data

• WebTop helps organizations

with RDP, VMware and Citrix
consolidate on a single
platform

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 Simplify Your Infrastructure

Simplify management, monitoring, and

troubleshooting with a single point of control

Simplify deployment with application-centric iApps

templates for XenDesktop and XenApp

Native monitoring for Citrix applications

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 It’s as Easy as 3-2-1

Consolidate Citrix Cloud Gateway And… Onto

3 Citrix Devices 2 Firewalls 1 BIG-IP

NETSCALER
ACCESS GATEWAY

3 STOREFRONT
2 1
APPCONTROLLER

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 Operational Complexities of Citrix Cloud
Gateway

Mobile apps
Citrix Cloud Gateway
Fragmented application access
and policy management

SaaS apps

Firewall NetScaler Firewall StoreFront AppController

Access
User devices Gateway
X
X X
X X
X X
X X
X Web apps
User experience impacted
by latency, lack of
persistence, poor reliability Multiple components make deployment,
configuration, troubleshooting, and Virtual Citrix
desktops ShareFile
upgrading more complex
& apps data
VDI-specific infrastructure
creates vendor lock-in

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 F5 Simplifies Application Delivery for VDI on a Single
Platform

Mobile apps

Application Delivery for Citrix VDI

SaaS apps

User devices F5 BIG-IP

Web apps

Virtual Citrix
desktops ShareFile
& apps data

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 Unify Access Control and Security
Policy-based, context-aware access policies based on user
identity, role, location, device type, device health, and more

Support for multiple strong/multi-factor authentication

approaches

Ultra-high-performance firewall built in

GUI-based Visual Policy Editor (VPE) makes it easy to

design and manage granular access control policies

Enforce BYOD policies for mobile devices

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 How Facebook Secured Remote Access and
Improved Citrix VDI Performance with F5 BIG-IP
Business Challenge
• Provide fast, reliable remote access “The sophisticated
• Integrate tightly with XenApp application authentication process
• Protect remote access portal from unauthorized access we achieved with F5
• Bring new consultants and partners on board quickly and securely helped eliminate an
immeasurable amount
Results of risk to our users and
our business.”
• Integrated tightly with Citrix XenApp application virtualization
• Provided fast, reliable remote application access – Simon Blackstein,
Corporate IT Infrastructure,
• Achieved three-factor authentication to protect confidential user information Facebook
• Provided fast, easy configuration of new partners for new business initiatives

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 F5 BIG-IP is the Foundation for Application
Delivery

F5 is the market F5 makes VDI better:

Citrix is a leader in 1
1 Optimize the user experience
proven choice application 2 Simplify infrastructure and
for VDI delivery
2
reduce costs
3
3 Unify security

Positioned to meet end users’ needs

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facebook.com/f5networksinc
linkedin.com/companies/f5-networks
twitter.com/f5networks
youtube.com/f5networksinc

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 How F5 makes
Citrix VDI better
Universal access to App
Catalog through SSO

Smart Phone Laptop Desktop

Eliminate tiers/
simplify provisioning
Safer end to end communication
& troubleshooting
F5 Intelligent & Adaptive Platform
Simplifies deployments for Unified access control to protect
Citrix apps & scalable for FAST SECURE AVAILABLE & simplify management
other enterprise apps
High availability across apps

Enterprise apps VDI

Application aware monitoring

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