Today’s employees expect real-time responses from technology. This is why many businesses are turning to desktop as a service (DaaS) or virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to deliver a secure, high-performance experience regardless of device, network, or location.
It is not enough to simply offer remote access to applications or data. Organisations also need solutions that can adapt to a wide variety of variables and deploy from any cloud or on-premises environment.
With Citrix high-definition experience (HDX) technology, businesses can achieve these goals and significantly improve user productivity and satisfaction. It gives employees the choice and exceptional experience they need to drive business productivity, anywhere, anytime, and on any device.
Increase Speed
Responsiveness is the key to helping users get as much as possible from their VDI and desktop as a service (DaaS) deployments.
With the right technology, a complex graphic should run just as smoothly in a virtual desktop as it does on a native device. Citrix achieves this through HDX 3D Pro and other targeted optimisations.
Cutting-edge display techniques ensure crystal-clear 3D rendering, 2D imaging, and interactive video. As a result, users can collaborate with pixel-perfect imagery even on unstable broadband and mobile networks.
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service allows users to access resources from their closest cloud location. This helps ensure the best experience from anywhere.
In addition, Remote PC Access capabilities allow users to leverage graphics-intensive or processing-intensive workloads from their physical PCs.
Reduce Spending
With increased business pressure to support flexible work, it helps to have breakthrough technology that does not require additional investments.
Citrix HDX technology is built into every edition of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, including DaaS and VDI options. This gives organisations an immediate advantage.
The technology improves image quality for highly animated workloads and server-rendered video. Furthermore, organisations do not need to invest in new infrastructure to support these capabilities.
When leveraging public cloud hosting, businesses only pay for the resources they use.
Citrix uniquely provides an application experience that recreates the traditional Linux and Windows 10 desktop experience. At the same time, it allows organisations to maximise existing resources and devices.
Improve Communication and Collaboration
More enterprises are relying on unified communications tools such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom to foster collaboration.
While these solutions offer tremendous benefits, organisations can find them difficult to deploy. Maintaining an ideal user experience across a wide range of devices can also be challenging.
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops eliminates these issues.
Created in close collaboration with Microsoft engineers, Citrix HDX optimisation enables users to receive a fully native experience when using Microsoft Teams on any device.
Additionally, Citrix HDX technology remains one of the few Microsoft-endorsed solutions for delivering unified communications in a virtual environment. This makes it an ideal choice for organisations looking to increase server scalability and improve audio-video traffic.
Smooth Voice, Video and Multimedia Performance
Users expect application and desktop delivery solutions to provide near real-time audio and multimedia performance, similar to local application and desktop implementations.
HDX technologies deliver bandwidth-efficient, crystal-clear voice, multimedia, and video. Organisations can further refine sessions through policies and templates.
At the same time, they benefit from exceptional display optimisation and performance.
3D Professional Graphics
Citrix developed the first virtualisation solution to support hardware-based GPU sharing of OpenGL and DirectX-based 3D professional graphics applications.
This innovation led to hardware acceleration of graphics commands, helping organisations achieve smooth graphics performance.
It also introduced deep compression technologies that maximise traffic throughput across low-bandwidth networks.
Administrators can tune these parameters all the way to lossless compression. This enables the delivery of pixel-perfect images for applications such as medical imaging.
Giving Windows Apps a Mobile-Native Look and Feel with HDX Mobile
HDX Mobile improves the experience of Citrix Receiver users working in supported Windows applications and server-based desktops on mobile devices.
HDX includes a native interface control channel that allows Windows applications to be re-factored for a touch experience. At the same time, it leverages device capabilities such as multi-touch gestures, native menu controls, cameras, and GPS functions.
Many touch features are available natively in XenApp and XenDesktop. Therefore, organisations do not need to make application source code changes to activate them.
Bringing It All Together in the Citrix Workspace
HDX technologies form the foundation of the Citrix application and desktop delivery platform. This platform provides a superior virtual application and desktop solution that users can access from any device and across any network.
It also delivers an application and desktop experience that rivals a local PC.
This remains true even when users work with multimedia, real-time collaboration tools, USB peripherals, and 3D graphics applications across low-bandwidth and high-latency networks.
With Citrix Workspace, XenApp, XenDesktop, and HDX technologies, IT teams can successfully extend the delivery of virtual applications and desktops beyond the corporate headquarters.
As a result, remote, mobile, and branch office users gain access to the resources they need while organisations maintain a high level of security and control over corporate data.