Improving Performance and Security   Bringing LAN like performance and security to branch office, remote and mobile workers

The Challenge

	Customer References
	"The fast-moving nature of our organisation means that there is often the need for a distributed group of people to be accessing information. We wanted to extend our use of Citrix beyond just our main stations, to those working from home or remotely who needed applications delivered to them with a high level of security. "We needed an adaptable and flexible solution. The system allows us to restrict printing or local saving of data, ensuring we can protect sensitive information while allowing people to be productive when not based in the office."	Tracey Hipperson, Head of ICT at Cambridgeshire Constabulary
	Business & Technical Benefits
	Reduce Costs: Remove expensive IT infrastructure from branch offices and deliver everything from the centre Improved Performance: Data access speeds of up to 50 x faster and applications load up to 6 x faster Business Continuity: An effective remote working solution also meets key business continuity requirements Increase Reliability: Provide highly available and simple to use services to your users
	"Thanks to the ability to work more flexibly.  We are a far more mobile company today." "We are seeing a lot more work being done in hotels, touchdown (hot-desk) centres and airports and in our overseas offices, where users can access not only email but also their line-of-business applications anywhere they can get an Internet connection."	Andrew Gordon, Senior Architect, Standard Life
	Centralis Case Studies
	The AA Centralis desktop solutions deliver reliable  access to the AA at the roadside. Centrica Centralis provides standard builds to thousands of service engineers throughout the UK. Bracknell Forest Borough Council Flexible working at the council saves over £300,000 pa in direct costs.

Remote and mobile access comes in many flavours, from the occasional home worker, to the roaming international executive to the branch office worker over the WAN.

For every user who works remotely from the HQ LAN, performance can be slow, or worse inconsistent, with applications, data and personal settings not available or not the same as they were in the office.

Properly designed, mobile working solutions can not only support flexible working, they can bring systems access directly to its point of use empowering and enabling sections of the workforce.

Common issues:

• Staff now need to be more mobile but also need good performance wherever they work

• The demands for mobility have to be matched with appropriate security and governance

• Organisations need to be ready to respond rapidly to major disruptions to staff availability – whether from weather, protest, strike or illness

• The cost of supporting and maintaining I.T. infrastructure in branch offices is a major overhead
   

How Centralis Can Help

Centralis specialises in the specification, design, deployment and support of networking appliances to accelerate users applications and desktops and ensure high levels of security.

Centralis recommends the following network appliance:

Citrix NetScaler - Combining access control, application security, load balancing and web acceleration, calling NetScaler the Swiss-army knife of networking appliances still doesn't do it justice.

Centralis has worked on NetScaler deployments for many years since being asked by Citrix to join the elite/spearhead programme and the response from customers has been overwhelmingly positive.

NetScaler is also available as a virtual appliance, making proof of concept deployments simple to arrange.  Discover the technology that makes access via the internet fly - contact us to find out more.

Citrix Branch Repeater - The Branch Repeater proposition is simple - reduce bandwidth, accelerate performance and remove remote servers.

Optimised for Citrix sessions, the Branch Repeater improves the performance of both XenApp and XenDesktop, as well as improving access speeds to files and applications.

Branch Repeater is available as a virtual appliance, but previous proof of concept deployments have made it very difficult to switch off once users have experienced the performance improvements it brings.  Discover the technology that the branch office and mobile user feel like they are working in head office - contact us to find out more.

How Customers Benefit

• Improve end-user experience for remote, mobile and branch office users

• Reduce accommodation costs through effective hot-desking and home-working

• Support high-level operational requirements such as disaster recovery and business continuity

• Reduce costs by removing branch office servers

• Improve the effectiveness and productivity of field workers and roaming employees

• Support “green” initiatives to reduce energy consumption of accommodation & travel
   

What to do next

• Consider how your organisation would benefit if it could deliver high-performance applications and desktops to users at any location

• Meet with a Centralis pre-sales consultant to discuss your options – no charge or obligation to proceed

• Find out how similar organisations have benefited and discover how networking appliances can significantly boost user performance
   

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