In order to reduce the TCO of desktop infrastructures many IT organizations are increasingly implementing Citrix-based terminal services.
A common trend is that Citrix environments grow on a large scale. The consequence: large terminal server farms are deployed which lead to increased administration efforts. So a part of the cost savings that have been achieved at the desktop side is now being consumed through the operation of server farms in the data center. As more users access their applications via terminal services this layer of the data center becomes more and more business critical. This again requires recovery mechanisms in case of system failures. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has created a Dynamic IT infrastructure that consists of a complete solution to operate Citrix environments more efficiently and that is able to react very fast on failure situations.
The basic concept: operating system and applications are on a central storage and servers are provisioned on demand. New servers can be added fast or defective systems can be replaced quickly.
The dynamic IT for CITRIX consists of following key components that have been integrated and pre-tested for a seamless operation • PRIMERGY rack or blade server systems and the FUTRO thin client devices as ideal hardware platforms • RemoteDeploy to quickly provision new servers • visionapp Platform Management Suite for an efficient operation of CITRIX environments
