Citrix improves IT Efficiency.

Citrix helps organisations to improve IT efficiency by consolidating systems and data under the central control of IT teams to accelerate application delivery and improve the security, availability, performance, and management of enterprise resources.

Citrix improves IT efficiency and delivers substantial savings for customers in a range of ways, including:

• Rapidly deploys applications and data across the extended enterprise
• Enables the centralisation of IT services to lower the cost of computing, including hardware and software deployment and maintenance
• Maximizes existing server and client hardware investments by extending the lifespan of older devices
• Accelerates the performance of any application, reducing user wait-times and IT overhead
• Reduces the cost of network bandwidth by maximising its carrying power
• Enables user problems to be solved instantly through on-demand assistance
• Reduces the cost of collaboration with predictable flat-fee pricing for any number of online meetings
• Enables organisations to combine a software-as-a-service approach with a hosted-software approach to offload demand from corporate resources and improve IT efficiency
• Gives IT teams the power to observe, monitor, measure, audit, report, and archive all the dimensions of information flow throughout the IT environment
• Enables intelligent application retirement and server consolidation with a consolidated view of service utilization
• Provides on-demand reporting of utilisation metrics and growth trends to determine service costs for billing, budgeting, and ROI tracking on a utility computing model
• Enables pin-point monitoring and proactive support with custom views and built-in diagnostics
• Sends real-time alerts to enable rapid response when capacity thresholds are reached.

Citrix Managed Services.

Running a 24/7 Citrix farm requires a large staff with knowledge of many technologies and skills sets including the Citrix family of products, Microsoft Windows 2XXX, Terminal Services and its supported drivers, WAN and Internet technologies, Firewalls & VPNs, and experience integrating custom applications into a Citrix environment.

As an experienced Citrix Solutions Provider and Microsoft Certified Partner, GCT provides an advanced Citrix Monitoring and Support service that clients require to support a 24/7 thin-client/remote access environment.  We will support your entire environment including your Citrix servers, your network infrastructure, your backend databases and database servers, and any custom or off-the-shelf applications that you are accessing under Citrix - to create a custom Service Level Agreement (SLA) specific to your needs.

Our automated Citrix Monitoring tools and staff expertise allow us to provide a comprehensive approach to managing business-critical Citrix environments that include:

• 24x7 Monitoring and Management
• Data Replication Solutions
• Version Management
• Performance Management
• Vendor Management
• Production Database Administration
• Disaster Recovery
• Change Control
• Capacity Planning
• Security Management
• Problem Determination
• Problem Escalation
• Problem Resolution

GCT will customise each of these to create a unique service level agreement that meets your exact requirements.  Please read more about our complete Infrastructure Managed Services, covering Network Infrastructure through to End Users.

Please contact us for a free, no obligations consultancy to discuss your requirements.