Citrix Solutions

Over 50 million workers in more than 120,000 organisations worldwide use Citrix enterprise access infrastructure solutions every day. An Access Infrastructure solution is essentialy server-based computing (SBC). SBC is transforming the way companies work by opening up their access to applications and driving down IT costs.

We at Connaught can advise you of the best solution for your company to maxmise benefits from your IT budget.

Using Citrix Metaframe you can use inexpensive Windows terminals or older computers instead of following the traditional upgrade path. Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server lets users run the latest Windows applications using a variety of clients including Macs, all flavours of Windows, Linux, many handheld devices and smart phones.

In an on-demand enterprise, users see their personalised desktop and its applications whenever they connect - regardless of the device they use. True useable office portability that works effectively - even via a 56k modem.

The benefits of an SBC are numerous and include:

Maintenance - The ability (if desired) to eliminate user-caused problems such as loading unauthorised applications/games or deleting icons.

Software updates - All updates can be done once on one server - ensuring everyone is up to date

Backups - Eliminate the need for local backups - all data is held securely 'off the local machine' on a server

Anti-virus protection - Centralising all access into the network enables IT to implement anti-virus software to virtually eliminate the threat of macro viruses

Theft - if a laptop/desktop computeris stolen - there is no productivity downtime as any machine with access to the network (or the internet) can be used to connect to the server.

Corporate Standards - with SBC, control of the desktop shifts from the user to the IT staff enabling IT to present a common user interface.