Now, you heard the exciting news about Project Avalon - the next-generation platform to provide applications, data and desktops as cloud services. In this announcement, Citrix detailed how we will integrate technologies such as CloudStack, and CloudPortal XenDesktop to create an unprecedented system for the provision of applications and desktops as services for public cloud providers and enterprises want to manage their environments as cloud providers (what we call private clouds).
in the heart of Avalon platform is the App Orchestration solution. This technology has already delivered and can be operated by more than 2,000 Citrix service providers that deliver applications and Windows desktops as a service to hundreds of thousands of users of their public clouds. Current technology, you may know that Rainmaker Project, currently supports the orchestration of Citrix XenApp for service providers and offers three key benefits:
- A multi-tenant layer which gives the ability to service providers isolate clients from different farms while managed as a coherent system. With this layer, service providers can isolate the clients on their own farms or server working groups, but manage the entire environment as a single entity from a single console.
- Managing multi-version and automation. Service providers use the transition to orchestration technology automatically sessions older machines to newer users to automate the updates required for patches, new versions of Citrix products, new applications, etc. . The orchestration layer manages the automatic emptying of users of the old servers, allocating new servers and redirecting users to servers updated. Once the old servers are completely emptied, they are automatically returned to the pool for use with the new updated images.
- Integration with CloudPortal Manager services to allow tenants to administrators to add user applications or workstations that have been defined and announced by. the service provider
In Project Avalon, we'll App Orchestration to the next logical step - App & office Orchestration. This next level of integration extend beyond XenApp workloads to include all sub XenDesktop FlexCast models, offering maximum flexibility by enabling service providers and enterprises to deliver any type of office or environment application, including hosted shared, VDI, VDI server, etc. The orchestration layer extend all the benefits listed above in all models FlexCast. He will also deliver two new features:
- Automatic creation of user workspaces from infrastructure (via the integration of CloudStack) to applications, desktops, data (via ShareFile integration) and other services such as Exchange, SharePoint, etc. . (Via CloudPortal integration).
- multi-site management. Service providers that have multiple deployments in different geographical areas can take advantage of the orchestration layer to manage these sites as one system from a single console.
- Autonomic instantiation of user workspaces based on the current demand for workspaces.
Read all about technology Orchestration App in these blogs and keep looking more to come in the ongoing blog series on App Orchestration:
App Orchestration: Concepts
App Orchestration: architecture
to learn more about Project Avalon and the new exciting ideas behind it, coming to a newly added Synergy session (SYN145) Friday morning at 9:00 am in room 08, Moscone West.
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