Extend the benefits of desktop virtualization to users of high-performance professional graphics applications. New HDX 3D for Professional Graphics available with Citrix® XenDesktop™ is the only solution capable of delivering a high-definition experience of professional graphics applications to users over the wide area network (WAN), enabling organizations to leverage talent globally, but still protect the data centrally.
Other solutions in the market cannot address WAN users at all, typically resulting in both excessive bandwidth consumption and slow, frustrating performance. Even over a local area network (LAN), HDX 3D for Professional Graphics delivers performance levels up to 10 times better than alternatives. The ability to deliver a high-definition experience of a virtual desktop to the professional graphics user is a critical requirement in industries such as manufacturing, engineering and graphic design, architecture and animation.
In these industries, design teams are often geographically dispersed but still require the ability to collaborate and work from the same source files. In addition, these teams work with highly-valued intellectual property where security is paramount. Today, to deal with these challenges, organizations typically take one or more of the following approaches:
- Restrict hiring practices to certain locales so they establish a physical office
- Pay for relocations, sometimes internationally and involving visas and other additional costs and paperwork
- Physically pack and ship hard drives and workstations around to various locations, which forces colleagues to work sequentially rather than collaboratively
All of these approaches are not only costly, but they also increase the risk of data loss and theft, and can cause expensive delays in time-to-market. HDX 3D for Professional Graphics changes all of that and enables organizations to completely eliminate the current limitations of a traditional PC solution. XenDesktop with HDX 3D for Professional Graphics solves these problems by centralizing the OS, applications and data in the datacenter, and quickly and securely delivering desktops with high performance anywhere in the world. All of this is made possible by a breakthrough in WAN performance that other solutions lack.
