Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) Reviews

Good product, our POC proved that Xendesktop required lower bandwidth per machine than competitors.

Costs for one, we settled on VMware hypervisor with Citrix Xendesktop running underneath, additional costs were incurred because of this hybrid solution, another consideration would be the significant disk space required for what is called "write cache". It was unplanned and caused a considerable headache.

Since the POC, VMview has significantly improved thier bandwidth requirements. I wonder if a complete VMware solution may be a viable replacement at some point.

Within our organization, there are roughly 80 users using this solution.

The price and user-interface are great.

I would like to see more audio support.

I have been using this solution for roughly six months.

The stability is good. I experienced a few bugs with previous versions, but not this version.

The scalability is great. On a scale from one to ten, scalability-wise, I would give this solution a rating of eight.

The technical support is pretty good. On a scale from one to ten, I would give their technical support a rating of seven. They respond very quickly and they are very skilled at their job.

Citrix Workspace Is difficult to deploy. The initial setup is very complex.

I would absolutely recommend this solution. Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of eight.

Hybrid Cloud

The most valuable feature of this product for me is that it provides secure access anywhere from any device.

This product has improved my organization by provide access to the Intranet application and website over the internet over SSL from any device.

This product should include a feature like like App Volume, which their competitor already has.

Also, the Hypervisor needs to be improved.

I have been working with this product for the last four years. I have done many projects on Citrix XenDesktop.

I did not have any deployment issues. For a PoC, it is an easy one-day setup.

Technical support in India is awesome and are equipped with the required technical solutions.

Initial setup was straightforward. It's a single-server setup in a simple environment and can be scalable at any point of time.

ROI is always a challenge for VDI if the number of users is less than 200. It all depends upon the organisational requirement.

In comparison to Citrix XenDesktop, VMware Horizon is a very good product. However, some features such as Sharefile and Netscaler complete the Citrix story.

Go for this product without any thinking. If you are looking for security and a single point of management, then go with this product.

• Application virtualization
• Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI)
• Management and security using NetScalers

We are using this to allow our users to access applications over a secured, remote environment. It has helped to reduce the outages in our IT infrastructure, especially during server maintenance.

The solution needs some improvement to make it more flexible with an easier interface.

I have been working with this technology for over nine years.

Initially, we had some stability issues, such as slow logon for users and profile issues. All have been resolved and it is currently running smoothly.

We did not have hot-production outages in the environment. When we deployed the products, we set up rigid environment monitoring which has helped us to reduce scalability issues.

I never used a different solution as I started my career with XenApp. I later learned other Citrix products. So far, I am comfortable with them.

Initially, we built a pre-production environment to understand the challenges according to our requirements. We were able to overcome them.

I did not evaluate other options.

• During the implementation phase, understand the requirement and set up a sand box environment for testing and managing. 
• If all of the testing is successful, plan for production from scratch. Do not use your existing sandbox for production.