Advantages and disadvantages of Citrix Remote Desktop
1) Security
Pros
It provides Quick updates to the central point that protects the desktops from new security threats receiving the latest patches, fixes, and maintenance—delivered automatically, preventing loss and theft and ensuring strict compliance with the highest regulatory standards for various industries while having the freedom to work from wherever the user wants to since the data is not stored locally.
Cons
Server-side problems like networking or in the worst case a crash can affect multiple users or even departments. For that reason alone, we need redundancy of the central data in case the server is down otherwise the whole business stops and redundancy means more labor, time, and cost.
2) Cost-Effective
Pros
Virtual Desktops drastically reduces the time and cost of desktop management and support for migration, deployment, maintenance, updating, etc. because the organizations have just the central point or server to look after.
Cons
A lot of servers, virtual machines, networking, to be taken care of by people who are being paid heavily since they are highly skilled. Citrix has very advanced and expensive setup and ongoing costs in comparison to its peers which offer an affordable version of a desktop environment or rather an upgrade to the platform as a service (PaaS) such as Microsoft.
3) Remote access and mobility
Pros
Remote working is part of everyday working life now. Virtual Desktops enable access to desktops – with all individual user settings, preferences, files – on any device be it tablets, computers, laptops, mobiles, etc. increasing the productivity considerably and the user can be anywhere globally.
Cons
There's a rise of Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service and customers have to make future choices because economically ROI for Desktop as a Service is long-term which means you need to think of it as a long term investment to extract profits despite the changing market in terms of technology. Just because of this fact and it is still believed that Citrix aces just the desktop virtualization field and there are other competitors in the market like Microsoft and VMWare which offer a wide range of specialized benefits too.
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