They also provide as mentioned integrations with AWS, Azure as well.Ĭitrix Cloud uses a Windows component called a Cloud Connector which does the interaction between the on-premises resources and Citrix Cloud. Now there are a few vendors which have this type of approach, the ones I’m focusing on is Citrix with their Cloud offering, VMware with their Horizon Air Hybrid Mode and Workspot which provides us with a cloud based management tier.Ĭitrix have been pushing Citrix Cloud for some time now, and their architecture reflects pretty good the picture above, Citrix provides the management plane (running in AWS for the time being) and your on-premises setup can be running on any type of hardware and you can still be leveraging PVS if you wish or you can use the built-in provisioning mechanisms which existing like vSphere, XenServer, SCVMM and so on. Of course there are other factors like user profile management and how to handle application delivery is we are using layers and such but this simplifies things alot further. Now moving the management plane out of the equation, allows for a lot easier management, since we now only need to focus on the desktop/app servers and ensure that the way of access point is working. Now in this post ill got a bit deeper into some of the solutions, where management and data plane are seperated. In my first blog post I discussed, some of the advantages of moving app/deskop solution to the cloud, but there are different vendors out there from range from the ones that give you full control of the setup and to others which provide us with a finished platform (You can read the first post here –> )

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