Citrix Optimisation Service
Gartner research highlights that every Citrix server provisioned will cost the business between £10k and £25k per year in heat, light and management. A recent client realised that for every month that they could not implement a new business process on their off-shore farm, they were losing £75k per month - their SLA for application deployment is currently 6 months.
There are significant savings to be made from providing an optimised Citrix estate but how can these savings be realized?
Citrix environments typically develop on a project by project basis with little consideration of existing deployments. Alongside this, Camwood's experience has demonstrated that clients who typically implement a strategic farm or shared service never realise the benefits of the service and this often becomes just another tactical deployment.
Why is this? Camwood believes that there are a number of factors behind this. The following are some examples of typical conversations that Camwood consultants have had with clients:
- Fear of change; "The application is working so leave it alone - the server may not be stable but I cannot afford to bring the service down."
- Skills shortage and processes; "The original Citrix team have left and there are no supported processes."
- Application knowledge; "We cannot patch, update or even remove this application as we don't really know how it was installed. We think it's best to order another set of servers."
- Business take-on; "We are being asked to place applications offshore and justify business case numbers, but we don't actually know until we put the application-live as to whether the business case numbers stack-up or more-to-the-point, will the application work?"
Camwood are able to provide a fixed price assessment service that will focus on the critical aspects of your Citrix deployment and provide real-life advice as to how your Citrix estate can be better managed and benefits can be effectively realised.
