What Are Citrix White Papers?
Software companies put together white papers, or sponsored case studies, to demonstrate how their products are being used in real customer environments. White papers can help other companies facing similar business problems better understand how Citrix's software can solve their problems and what else it can do for their business. Citrix offers white papers for each of its primary product lines: XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer and Net Scaler.
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XenApp
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A number of white papers are available through Citrix that illustrate how its XenApp software platform can be used to virtualize enterprise software applications. Virtualization allows companies to run one version of a software application across their entire network without having to install it on each individual computer ion the company network. XenApp white papers focus on how migrations to new operating systems can be facilitated, how desktop security can be increased, and how XenApp can be used to reduce a company's IT carbon footprint.
XenDesktop
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Like XenApp, XenDesktop is a virtualization application that allows business users to access entire workstations that are hosted on a server and not installed on the physical computer that they may be using. XenDesktop white papers focus on the integration of the software platform with other Citrix products, how Oracle software products can be integrated into XenDesktop, and how virtualization products from Citrix can be used to maintain business continuity.
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XenServer
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Providing the back-end infrastructure that powers many of Citrix's products is XenServer, the platform upon with XenApp and XenDesktop are administered. It's important to note that XenApp and XenDesktop can also be used with other virtualization platforms, such as VMWare's ESX software. To that end, the XenServer white papers focus on why XenServer is a better solution, how it can be used to achieve "green IT" goals, as well as a case study that looks at how publishing company Ziff Davis used XenServer to reduce IT costs and deploy virtualized applications within their company.
NetScaler
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Focusing on the needs of network administrators is NetScaler, a software application that allows network admins to set load balancing requirements and increase network security through the use of Citrix web applications. These white papers also look at how NetScaler interacts with Oracle software products as well as AJAX, or asynchronous javascript, web applications that are commonly served to web users over servers that are candidates for running the NetScaler software.
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