Virtual desktop access

The newest release of Citrix is Access Gateway appliance, which now includes integration with XenDesktop, allowing companies to deliver virtual desktops securely to thousands of end users based on their unique identity, location and security status.

This provides intelligent access directly to approved applications and desktops through its SmartAccess.

By providing highly scalable secure access for virtual desktops, the company is making it easier for IT organisations to realise the tremendous security and cost reduction benefits that come from centralising applications and desktops in the data centre and delivering them virtually to end users in any location.

Access Gateway has: SmartAccess for virtual desktops — allowing IT departments to provide access to specific applications and data based on the user’s identity, location and results of an end-point analysis of the client device; improved scalability for secure virtual desktop access — adding a scalable Access Gateway appliance in front of virtual desktops in the data centre that can enhance an organisation’s ability to deliver XenDesktop securely to thousands of XenDesktop users; and fast configuration and deployment wizards — simplifying and accelerating deployment in a virtual desktop by automating several commonly performed configuration tasks.