Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops : an ideal virtual desktop and application experience
July 26, 2022
Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops : an ideal virtual desktop and application experience
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
I'm working for a Citrix Platinum Solution Advisor (CSA) and Citrix Service Provider (CSP). We have used and resold Citrix Solutions for a long time (20 years+) and have deployed it within many customers' infrastructures. Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops is used to publish and secure virtual desktop or server-based sessions to local and remote users, with advanced functionality like rich graphics and audio, and great user environment personalization.
Pros
- Best performance on low bandwith or big latency.
- Great user experience
- Use it on any device, anywhere
- Easy management
- Secure platform
Cons
- Licensing is complex, no more option to buy license (only subscriptions).
- Citrix should stop renaming every product and suites regularly.
- More fair pricing (solutions can be very expensive).
- Performance
- Security
- Ease of use for end users
- Simple management consoles and tools
- Citrix products really helped during Covid lockdowns for discontinued access to company resources.
- By enabling the use of thin clients, we have reduced the cost needed for maintaining complex platforms for managing user devices.
- With Citrix, we can use the same product to publish apps, desktops, and sessions, and customize them.
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.
Do you think Citrix DaaS delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Citrix DaaS's feature set?
Yes
Did Citrix DaaS live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Citrix DaaS go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Citrix DaaS again?
Yes
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