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Citrix XenDesktop 7.8 and Citrix Provisioning Services 7.8

Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.8

Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop are application and desktop virtualization solutions built on a unified architecture so

they're simple to manage and flexible enough to meet the needs of all your organization's users. XenApp and

XenDesktop have a common set of management tools that simplify and automate IT tasks. You use the same

architecture and management tools to manage public, private, and hybrid cloud deployments as you do for on-

premises deployments.

Citrix XenApp delivers the following:

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XenApp published apps, also known as server-based hosted applications: These are applications hosted

from Microsoft Windows servers to any type of device, including Windows PCs, Macs, smartphones, and

tablets. Some XenApp editions include technologies that further optimize the experience of using Windows

applications on a mobile device by automatically translating native mobile-device display, navigation, and

controls to Windows applications; enhancing performance over mobile networks; and enabling developers

to optimize any custom Windows application for any mobile environment.

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XenApp published desktops, also known as server-hosted desktops: These are inexpensive, locked-down

Windows virtual desktops hosted from Windows server operating systems. They are well suited for users,

such as call center employees, who perform a standard set of tasks.

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Virtual machine

–hosted applications: These are applications hosted from machines running Windows

desktop operating systems for applications that can’t be hosted in a server environment.

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Windows applications delivered with Microsoft App-V: These applications use the same management tools

that you use for the rest of your XenApp deployment.

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Citrix XenDesktop 7.8: This solution includes significant enhancements to help customers deliver Windows

applications and desktops as mobile services while addressing management complexity and associated

costs. Enhancements in this release include:

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Citrix FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA) unified product architecture for XenApp and

XenDesktop: This release supplies a single set of administrative interfaces to deliver both hosted-shared

applications (Amazon Relational Database Service [RDS]) and complete virtual desktops (VDI). Unlike

earlier releases, which separately provisioned Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop farms, XenDesktop 7.8

allows administrators to deploy a single infrastructure and use a consistent set of tools to manage mixed

application and desktop workloads.

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Support for extending deployments to the cloud: This release supports hybrid-cloud provisioning from

Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or any cloud-platform-powered public or private cloud.

Cloud deployments are configured, managed, and monitored through the same administrative consoles as

deployments on traditional on-premises infrastructure.

Citrix XenDesktop delivers:

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VDI desktops: These virtual desktops each run a Microsoft Windows desktop operating system rather than

running in a shared, server-based environment. They can provide users with their own desktops that they

can fully personalize.

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Hosted physical desktops: This solution is well suited for providing secure access to powerful physical

machines, such as blade servers, from within your data center.