Since its announcement, Citrix
Workspace Cloud has received quite the buzz, enough to having stirred up curiosity
on what it is and can do. Here’s a quick intro:
Citrix Workspace Cloud is a set of cloud managed services that enables you to securely,
reliably and quickly integrate the delivery of apps, desktops, data, mobility,
and collaboration software. What makes this so unique is that it does all this
by providing you with choice, time to value, focus, and a way to embrace your
inner creativity. Its architecture is that similar to ShareFile where the
control plane is hosted in the cloud by Citrix.
In the control plan you'll find
Delivery Controllers, Storefront, Director, and SQL servers. Customers (small
& medium-size) that don't always have the ability to license SQL HA benefit
from this model. This time to value excels the stand up of any environment by
avoiding the arduous SQL setup conversations, what recommended hotfixes to
place in, or the upgrading of a controller, etc. Thus then allowing greater
focus towards delivering greater workloads. Workloads that are hosted where we
choose. A choice that provides us the ability to select where we want
our data to reside - Azure, AWS, on premise, etc. –wherever you want!
Workspace Cloud components consist of apps, desktops, and mobility services
powered by XenApp, XenDesktop, & XenMobile. Secured documents are delivered
thru ShareFile. And newly introduced is Life Cycle Manager, which allows you to
create and utilize Blueprints to your automation liking. So you decide what
recipe to cook, whether it be a dab of deployment tasks, a touch of monitoring,
a bit of auto scaling, a pint of configuration instructions - it's all based
on the actions, scenarios, and results you want. For example: auto scale a new
controller on certain utilization levels, power up/down VDA workloads at
defined ratios of use, or reconfigure a Netscaler at a hit of certain
throughput. Blueprints can even be used for 3rd party applications, such as
standing up a SQL server, deploying a software defined solutions, etc. Sky’s
the limit!
In summary, CWC provides a spectrum of ways to consume and leverage Citrix
technologies to construct a workspace across a range of different resource
locations with simplicity around the control plane stack and the
infrastructure hosted within those resource locations. Its cloud connector facilitates
easy control of these resource locations, all of which makes Citrix Workspace
Cloud worth looking into. Learn more today here
and here.
Cloud Connector details:
Labels: Blueprints, Citrix, Citrix Workspace Cloud, Cloud Connector, Life Cycle Management
