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Citrix XenApp

Citrix® XenApp (formerly Presentation Server) centralizes application management and delivers Windows applications as an on-demand service to users anywhere. F5's market-leading Application Delivery Networking solutions are a perfect fit for Citrix XenApp environments. From network optimizations and application availability to secure remote access and application security, F5’s application-fluent architecture provides the most effective, best-in-class solution.

Why do I need F5 for my Citrix XenApp deployment?

F5 provides the most comprehensive and easy-to-deploy solution for optimizing your XenApp environment. With its unmatched application fluency, F5 enhances XenApp deployments by intelligently directing traffic, ensuring application availability, improving performance, and providing the most flexible layer of security of any Application Delivery Controller on the market. F5 consolidates network components, then scales to meet changing demands on applications and to provide support for other critical business applications and web services. With F5, you gain faster applications, secure and more reliable access management, a higher quality experience for end users, and a satisfied IT department.

Benefits of F5's Application Ready Solution for Citrix XenApp:

  • Faster application performance.
    TCP optimizations accelerate the delivery of applications over the WAN, including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, and more.
  • Improved availability.
    Intelligent health monitors and advanced load balancing methods help ensure mission-critical applications are always available.
  • Reduced complexity.
    F5 eliminates the need for single-point solutions and centralizes access policy control to support authentication, single sign-on (SSO), and remote access.
  • Fast and easy deployment.
    Step-by-step deployment guides and XenApp-specific configuration objects make it easy to deploy quickly.
  • Cost control.
    F5 customers can leverage existing equipment to create an agile application delivery infrastructure for XenApp.

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How do I deploy Citrix XenApp with F5?

Deploying F5 solutions with Citrix XenApp is simple and easy with minimal implementation requirements, application ready configuration templates, and step-by-step deployment guides that take the trial and error out of your initial configuration. F5 has built-in support for Citrix XenApp, so you can simply select XenApp from a list of supported configuration options that provide the base level setup from which you can customize. F5 eliminates the need to configure additional point products to manage authentication, giving you a total solution for traffic management, security, app acceleration, and more.

Resources

DevCentral Community

F5 DevCentral, is our community driven site that helps customers and partners maximize the effectiveness of F5 technologies & solutions.

F5 Knowledge Base

The AskF5 Knowledge Base has product manuals, security advisories, and release notes on F5 products.

What F5 offerings do I need for a Citrix XenApp solution?

F5's entire portfolio of products can work together to ensure your XenApp deployment is always secure, fast, and available.

Resources

F5 Technology Demo

This animated demo shows the F5 application delivery networking technologies working in different scenarios.

BIG-IP Overview Demo

This in-depth Flash demo gives a video introduction, overview, and next steps for using BIG-IP devices.

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