What customers have to say about Citrix SD-WAN

Our customers tell us that Citrix SD-WAN provides reliable, cost-effective, uninterrupted connectivity and optimal performance. And it’s easy to deploy. Let’s take a look at some of the use cases for which our customers chose Citrix SD-WAN.

A More Secure WAN

Not only do we provide data protection over the overlay network with encryption, but an integrated multi-zone stateful firewall ensures customers in industries such as retail, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing can adhere to their security requirements with fewer appliances in the branch. The firewall enables customers to identify apps and apply polices (allow, drop, reject, or log) to each virtual-routing domain (e.g., third-party contractors on a VLAN don’t have access, but employees do). You can limit which apps are available by zone (e.g., users in a branch and third-party contractors can’t access financial apps). This branch firewall can replace a separate firewall while enabling direct internet breakout from branches.

Because a lot of your traffic might be internet-bound, you’ll want to secure it without having to backhaul it to your data center or maintain costly security stacks in your branches. We can direct traffic to a next-gen firewall service such as Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler. This centralized approach provides secure local breakout with advanced threat protection and a better user experience in the branch for critical SaaS and cloud apps. It also reduces the cost and complexity of deploying and managing security appliances in the branches.

Eliminate the Impact of Brownouts and Outages

It’s surprising how often WAN services degrade or fail, and the impact to your business when they do can be disastrous. This can result in lost revenue, frustrated customers, and unproductive employees. Voice and video are critical to many customer service and other types of businesses and require a high-performing network without disruptions to eliminate audio drop-outs, robotic voice, and disappointing video quality.

If a link goes out, SD-WAN can detect it within milliseconds, resulting in almost instantaneous resiliency. This means calls and applications aren’t dropped, and users don’t even notice a glitch. Even if there’s not a full outage, SD-WAN can detect brownouts such as high latency or loss spikes and shift to a better performing WAN service in real time.

Automate Your WAN to Accelerate the Move to Cloud

SD-WAN can fulfill a number of tick boxes in your journey to the cloud. Whether it’s Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Azure, AWS, or others, SD-WAN can ensure your network is ready to move to the cloud.

In support of Office 365 Connectivity Principles, Citrix SD-WAN provides reliable connections directly from branches to the nearest Office 365 edge nodes, dramatically improving user experience compared to backhauling to the data center. The Office 365 Endpoints web service publication provides Office 365 endpoint URLs and IP addresses. With support for new Microsoft APIs, Citrix SD-WAN uses the endpoint data to enable direct routing of Internet traffic from the branch to Office 365 edge nodes. SD-WAN’s traffic steering and monitoring capabilities provide Office 365 detection on the first packet to enable immediate local egress. Teams/Skype for Business Online audio and video is processed locally and best suited for local egress from the branch to the nearest Office 365 front door.

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Citrix Arms Companies in Global War for Talent

A Global Crisis

The talent crisis is real. In the US alone, available jobs outnumbered Americans looking for work by nearly one million as of August 31 - the largest gap in history. And by 2020, McKinsey & Company estimates that there will be a shortage of 95 million medium-to-high-skilled workers globally. Making matters worse:

• Experienced workers are retiring.
• The talent companies need may not be located near traditional work hubs.
• The talent companies have often lacks the skills required by modern digital business.

Attacking the Problem

In creating a world-class employee experience, companies can overcome these challenges and attract and retain the people they need to make their business go.

“Employee experience isn’t just a buzz term. It’s a critical business imperative that can drive productivity, customer satisfaction and revenue,” said Tim Minahan, Executive Vice President, Business Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer, Citrix. “Best-in-class companies recognize this and are laser-focused on creating an environment in which their people have simplified access to the technologies and insights they need to thrive.”

Give Them What They Want

Employees today expect work to be as simple and efficient as their personal lives. They don’t want to search for things. They want the insights they need to make informed decisions in a timely fashion delivered in context of what they need to get done. And they don’t want to have to navigate through multiple screens to execute simple tasks.

An Intelligent Workspace

It’s called an intelligent workspace. And it’s what Citrix delivers by providing the flexibility, security, and insights that people and organizations need to be productive—anytime, anywhere on any device.

Using Citrix® Workspace™, companies can:

• Give employees reliable access to all the apps and content they need to work where and how they want and be productive in one, unified experience.
• Leverage innovative technologies such as machine learning alongside simplified workflows to organize work and give employees insights and task automation needed to be more efficient and productive.
• Build employee skills and keep them on the cutting edge in their fields.

“What Citrix has enabled us to do with a digitally adapted office is transform what we can do on the go, wherever we happen to be, because we have all the computing power that we have when we’re back in the office,” said Adrian Cox, Head of Specialty Lines, Beazley. “And that’s been a real game changer.”

The Future of Work Delivered Today

According to a recent Stripe and Harris Poll, 61 percent of C-Suite executives view access to talent as the greatest inhibitor to their growth aspirations. It’s a vexing problem. But with the right technologies it can be overcome.

“It’s about flexibility and looking into the future to prepare,” said Kreft. “This is what Citrix helps us do.”