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Good for them; Azure Virtual Desktop and Amazon Workspaces are both pretty mature offerings that absolutely blow Citrix out of the water on cost, performance an
by wayoutthere 5y ago
Good for them; Azure Virtual Desktop and Amazon Workspaces are both pretty mature offerings that absolutely blow Citrix out of the water on cost, performance and functionality. It’s one of those rare use cases where autoscaling in the public cloud with some lightweight management tools is an unreasonably effective solution by nearly every available metric.
- snuxoll 5y agoI can't speak for Amazon Workspaces, but Azure Virtual Desktop by itself is a terrible experience. Citrix provides a pretty large value-add for AVD in particular: FAS + Azure AD integration means a user just needs to sign into their local (Windows) system and that's it, they're automatically signed into Storefront or Citrix Cloud through their Azure AD PRT and then FAS signs them into their VDI system when they connect. Add on HDX, support for things like FIDO2 redirection, etc. and I would say the exact opposite of you.
- krageon 5y agoThe enterprise integration on Citrix can be good, but really I think the conversation was about what it is like to actually use it.
- snuxoll 5y agoI mean, using it's fine too if you're not like so many organizations that vastly over-provision their infrastructure. I did a PoC with Citrix Cloud (Azure, Windows 10 multi-session) prior to us rolling it out for a family practice location and was rather impressed with the performance when using Standard_D4a_v4 instances - round trip latency metrics available in Citrix Studio showed around 60ms from keypress to update and my eyeballs would back that up. I've also used VDI setups that were miserable with heavily over-provisioned CPU resources and 2-vCPU's per VM. The experience really is dictated by the hardware you allocate.