IT investments, by their nature, must be adjusted over time to fit ever-changing business requirements. If you’ve been tasked with ‘right-sizing’ your Citrix environment – or want to show value by getting ahead of that request – join Craig Jeske, Director of Engineering at GTRI, for a rundown of Citrix optimization techniques and tasks. The interactive discussion will cover topics including: - Auditing and assessment frameworks - Use case development - Security and access concerns & controls - Hosting strategies - User experience & feedback View the webinar here: https://youtu.be/SV9N-6bwbSY

1. HOW TO RIGHTSIZE
YOUR CITRIX INVESTMENT
ENVISION
DESIGN
DEPLOY
EVOLVE

2. AGENDA
1 Where is the Business Going?
2 Auditing and Assessment Ideas
3 Security and Access Controls or Concerns
4 Hosting Strategies
5 Q&A with Open Discussion

3. WHERE IS THE BUSINESS GOING?
ENVISION
DESIGN
DEPLOY
EVOLVE

4. WHERE IS THE BUSINESS TODAY?
4
Network World, May 2017

5. ALL DATA CENTER BUDGETS ARE DECLINING
6
Uptime Institute / ZDnet

6. COMMON BUSINESS DRIVERS
SECURITY DECREASE COST STABILITY / SCALABILITY
MANAGABILITY / SUPPORTABILITY USEABILITY / PERFORMANCE CLOUD
Reduce risk, enhance security
posture, lower lawsuit exposure
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Lower budgets = lower IT spend
Ability to grow or shrink on
demand as the business does the
same
Organizations desire to move from
CapEx to OpEx
If the users don’t want to use
something, it doesn’t matter how
much money is saved
Staff is shrinking while complexity
is increasing

7. ALIGNING THE IT PLAN TO THE BUSINESS
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• Work WITH the business
• Align to the long term plan
• Give the users what THEY want
• Know the security constraints

8. AUDITING AND ASSESSMENT IDEAS
ENVISION
DESIGN
DEPLOY
EVOLVE

9. 9
AREAS TO ASSESS
• Where is my Citrix environment running today
• Where are my applications
• Is Citrix ”near” my applications
• What is the bandwidth between my apps and my Citrix farm
• What is my system performance
• Are users reporting issues
• Are my systems over or under utilized
• Am I appropriately tier-ing my storage or HCI configurations
• What are my hypervisor requirements

10. 10
AREAS TO AUDIT
• What are my security and compliance requirements
• Licensing
• Are there enough / too much licenses being used
• Are all my delivered applications compliant
• Am I leveraging licenses as efficiently as possible
• User/device vs. concurrent
• Centralized license server
• What are my legal obligations
• Data sovereignty
• Data loss penalties
• What are the reputation risks from compromise

11. SECURITY AND ACCESS CONCERNS OR CONTROLS
ENVISION
DESIGN
DEPLOY
EVOLVE

12. 12
SET A SECURITY BASELINE
• What compliance standards do I have to follow?
• PCI
• NIST 800-53
• HIPPAA
• Other industry specific
• Where do my security perimeters live
• Required operating system hardening i.e. STIG

13. 13
SET ACCESS BASELINES
• Set system screen lock / timeouts
• Set strict password and two-factor login requirements
• Set access control policies
• Login access times
• Location based restrictions

14. HOSTING STRATEGIES
ENVISION
DESIGN
DEPLOY
EVOLVE

15. 15
On
Premise
Managed
Service
Cloud
Based
Hosted
&
Managed
TODAY’S SPECTRUM OF CITRIX HOSTING OPTIONS

16. 16
ON PREMISE OPTIONS
• The status quo is always an option…
• Leverage a more modern option
• Converged infrastructure
• Hyper-converged infrastructure
• Leverage multiple data centers
• For application proximity
• For data sovereignty requirements
• For geographic consolidation
but that doesn’t make it right…

17. 17
CLOUD OPTIONS
• Company Managed options
• On premise private cloud
• Off premise private cloud
• Public Cloud
• Hyper-scale public cloud
• Other public cloud offerings

18. 18
HOSTING MODEL QUESTIONS
• Do companies ever move from cloud back to on premise or is it always a one
way trip
• Does the industry we're in have anything to do with which deployment model
we should choose
• My users are all over the world. How does that affect security in a cloud
environment vs on premise
• What cost questions need to be considered

19. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
ENVISION
DESIGN
DEPLOY
EVOLVE

20. THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING
ENVISION
DESIGN
DEPLOY
EVOLVE
cjeske@gtri.com