Citrix DaaS vs. Kasm Workspaces

DaaS is ideal in large-scale environments that require centralized, secure management. Remote workforces at large organizations. Highly regulated industries like finance. It allows for easy security and monitoring over one aspect instead of multiple remote machines. DaaS is not ideal for organizations with small budgets due to the pricing and organizations with lousy network connectivity. This would make the end-user experience terrible.

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Kasm Workspaces is a good fit for when you need to provide home-based workers access to corporate information or application, but you don't want to provide full network access through a VPN connection. It works well for when you want to ensure that data cannot be taken out of the network or you want to allow non-company devices to be used to access internal resources.

• Enables remote access anywhere, to any device which eliminates managing the endpoints how traditional VPN would require.
• Integrates well with modern applications to offer optimized user experiences similar to native applications which increases user acceptance.
• Extremely flexible in how policies are applied to different use cases to ensure the appropriate security mitigations are in place with minimal effort.
• Easy to maintain and expand environments to fit business needs.

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• Access from the web browser without having to install an agent or a VPN.
• Can be used on personal devices since the data is not stored on the device.
• No risk of data loss since the information never leaves the company network.

• A single console to manage the environment.
• The configuration is a bit complicated and we have hired Citrix administrators. But it's a good solution.
• User profiles need improvement. They could use more stability and more functionality as well as user profile redirection.

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• Remote workers had to be familiarized with the browser-in-browser for web applications.

Because it has been a mainstay of our business for many years.

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Getting the environment setup took me three months of off and on work, with 3 complete rebuilds of the environment. Utilizing the WebUI to access the environment had presented so many random issues that we had to require end users to use the Citrix Reciever App. As it was the only stable solution. Aside from that, it hasn't required much admin intervention since the stand-up was completed.

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Xendesktop did a great job with HA of all the components.

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The performance of XenDesktop is the best in the industry because of the fine-tuned protocol and years of updating. Overall, I don't think there is a better performer on the market. The question is if the added complexity of running XenDesktop is really worth the performance gain. While the latest version of XenDesktop is the easiest to deploy so far, it is still more challenging than the competitors.

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The support is great when you get an engineer that knows what they are doing but getting that individual sometimes takes a while. Overall, they are professional and polite and competent in their knowledge. Sometimes the cases are open for an extended period of time which becomes very frustrating when dealing with critical issues.

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The Kasm support team is always responsive to our questions. They interact with us directly, even as a small customer. They also notify us of software updates and check in on our usage of the software.

I was self trained

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Easy to understand and learn at my own pace

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Take it slow and read the directions each step of the way. If you are not familiar with Citrix products, use a reseller or other experienced engineer to assist you in the setup of your environment

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Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops is platform agnostic (we can use any underlying hypervisor technology) and really flexible for any use case. Using a golden image and provisioning it (with Machine Creation Services or Provisioning Services) is powerful and really straightforward, compared to the complexity in Microsoft RDS of maintaining a coherent farm, or the limitation of VMware Horizon to run on VMware Products.

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Kasm is alot more cost effective than Citrix or VMWare. We wanted an on-premise solution to provide remote access to our internal network resources. The Citrix and VMware solutions require significantly more hardware to run, since Kasm runs on a Linux server as containers and each of the images run as a small container. The licenses were significantly less expensive for Kasm too.

Easily scalable

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• XenApp has allowed us to continue support of legacy applications and all access of those applications to users across the globe with any device.
• XenApp can also manage software licenses by restricting number of users, number of concurrent sessions, or combination of both to required specification.
• While initial investment in XenApp can be costly, continuing support and upgrade are very cost effective and product stability is excellent.
• While there are competing products from Microsoft and VMware, when it comes to remote application access, XenApp is the best of breed.

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• Increased productivity by enabling a remote workforce.
• Allows work from any location or any device.