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Citrix Solutions Network Provider
The Citrix Solutions Network (CSN) is a comprehensive business programme, for which Cal Software is an authorised solutions provider, with proven ability in the deployment of Citrix solutions to a customer base looking for performance over a wide area network with low running costs. Specifically it allows companies to enjoy predictable, affordable, secure access to business critical applications as well as having greater reach and faster deployment time.
Citrix Systems Inc is a worldwide publicly traded Nasdaq quoted company with more than 1300 employees and has earned widespread recognition for proven application server software technology. Citrix(r) Metaframe(tm) software was named the best ASP enabling technology by Open Systems Advisors and the Metaframe software was recognised by Windows NT Magazine as the product of the year for 1999 and earned the Codie Award for best enterprise management tool.
ICA(r) and server-based computing (Citrix)
With more than 24 million users worldwide and 6 million concurrent user licenses Citrix's Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) is a proven and reliable technology. It provides the foundation for turning any client device thin or fat into the ultimate thin client by centralizing all application processing on the server and delivering performance and cost benefits through reduced bandwidth usage and single point application management. The ICA technology includes a server software component, a network protocol component, and a client software component.
The server-based computing model employs three critical components. The first is a multi-user operating system that enables multiple concurrent users to log on and run applications in separate, protected sessions on a single server. The second is a highly efficient computing technology that separates the application's logic from its user interface, so only keystrokes, mouse clicks and screen updates travel the network. As a result, application performance is bandwidth-independent. The third key component, centralized application and client management, enables large computing environments to overcome the critical application deployment challenges of management access, performance and security.
Server-based computing is made possible by two Citrix technologies: (ICA(r)) and Citrix MultiWin. A de facto standard for server-based computing, the ICA protocol shifts application processing from the client device to the server. MultiWin, the technology licensed by Citrix to Microsoft to jointly create Terminal Server, enables multiple users to simultaneously access applications running on a server.
Server-based computing is a model, in which applications are deployed, managed, supported and executed 100% on a server. It uses a multi-user operating system and a method for distributing the presentation of an application's interface to a client device.
With server-based computing, client devices, whether "fat" or "thin," have instant access to business-critical applications via the server, without application rewrites or download. This leads to improved efficiency when deploying business-critical applications. In addition, server-based computing works within the current computing infrastructure and current computing standards, and with the current and future family of Windows-based offerings. The result is improved returns on computing investments like desktops, networks, applications and training.
The end result is server-based computing, which is rapidly becoming the most reliable way to reduce the complexity and total cost associated with enterprise computing.
