Extending your Application Delivery To The FieldAndrew Wood, Citrix Technology Professional March 2015

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Why Extend?

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Improve efficiency & agility

Reduce operational costs

Users

• Globalization• Offshore & Remote Talent• Branch Expansion• Collaboration

• Consolidation• Security• Compliance• Continuity

Enable customers’ adoption of distributedand global product development

Legacy App Delivery Disrupts Distributed & Global Product Design

You can’t what you don’t see

Assess,Design, Build, or Run…

“The No. 1 challenge associated with any SHVD [VDI] project, is the lack of storage planning resulting in higher-

than-expected storage costs.” … “storage represents 40% to 60% of the SHVD budget and, in many cases, is a

barrier to entry.”

VDI Cost By Component

Source: Attacking the High Cost of Desktop Virtualization (July 2013 Gartner ID: ID:G00250192)