Simplification, Reduced Cost, and Regulatory Compliance
Server-based computing solutions, like Citrix, are enormously popular among enterprises, as they promise to greatly simplify the application infrastructure. This simplification reduces costs of purchasing and supporting business critical applications. Additionally, these solutions often meet strict government regulations and even promote business continuity. While simplification is the direct benefit of server-based computing, several other key benefits, such as cost-savings, continuity, and even regulatory compliance, also contribute to a significant competitive edge for the business.
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Bandwidth, Congestion, and Performance
Server-based computing requires remote users to access applications over the WAN. Although this application communication paradigm is optimized for low bandwidth usage, it does represent new and additional bandwidth consumption on the WAN. Further, this paradigm now subjects all of the communication between the user and the application to formidable WAN challenges, such as limited bandwidth, latency, and congestion. These applications must now compete with other network traffic as congestion chokes their vital communication channel. This situation is exacerbated as server-based computing applications tend to be more timid than the aggressive and bursty web, file transfers, and even printing traffic. When they lose their needed bandwidth, performance suffers greatly, and the end user cannot use their applications effectively, causing productivity issues.
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Expand's Server-based Computing SolutionWhen deploying server-based computing solutions to remote offices with limited bandwidth, Expand's solution will help ensure office users will be productive, by ensuring that business critical applications have the bandwidth they need, and using Expand's Citrix Acceleration, can even increase the total number of simultaneous users that can be supported at the remote site.
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Most server-based computing solutions come optimized for high performing client and server communication. However, since these applications are sensitive to congestion, and other network traffic tends to be aggressive, protection is needed for this optimization. Without protection, one user downloading a large file could crush the server-based computing session of another user trying to use a CRM/ERP application. Expand's QoS is easy to configure, allows different priorities for different applications running on the same session (i.e., published Citrix applications), and will protect server-based computing traffic from congestion. And with Expand’s compression to reduce the likelihood of congestion for other applications, a network-friendly environment is created for all business critical applications.
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Expand's Citrix Acceleration creates room for more simultaneous users on the WAN link. Using Expand, it is not uncommon to support fifteen users in environments where the previous peak was ten users. With a deep understanding of server-based computing applications, Expand is able to combine common elements from multiple user sessions, creating room for additional user sessions. Allowing more users to work on a smaller link will not only add to the bottom line, but will also improve the overall productivity of the business.
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