Citrix August, 2014

Citrix Cloud Solutions Case Study Kit

Citrix CloudPlatform, Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager

Education

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Key Education Requirements

• Dispersed and substandard IT infrastructure• Need to consolidate multiple datacenters and locations• Mitigate research data risk/loss due to lack of policy and ease of

outsourcing• Need to be a service provider for other educational institutions• Need a more agile way of managing new datacenter

technologies- NetApp, Cisco USC, Flexpod, NetScaler, VMW vSphere hypervisor &

more

• Need to provide resources for additional faculty, students, researchers and employees

• Need to modernize and simplify their core network and service offerings

• Need to enable self-service, access control and resource usage

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Education Case Studies

Hokkaido University - Hokkaido University strengthens R&D with its Academic Cloud built on Citrix CloudPlatform and Citrix XenServer.

University of São Paulo - Brazil’s top educational institution uses Citrix mobility, virtualization and cloud solutions to make rich computing resources available more simply and efficiently. Video below.

USP Innovation Award Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pviLKblDeCo

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University of Sao Paulo

Challenge • Deliver centrally managed on-demand virtual datacenters and cloud

services to 100,000 students and 6,000 professors across 11 campuses

Solution• Built a university-wide cloud with Citrix CloudPlatform, CloudPortal

and XenServer that delivers desktops, streamed applications, HPCaaS, IaaS and SaaS applications through a self-service portal

Result• Self-service cloud : Students and Faculty can start working on new

projects in minutes without bureaucratic delays. Researchers and scientists access capacity on-demand for big data analysis.

• Real-time budgeting: Departments get real-time usage and spend information.

• Reliable access and protection: Researchers get interrupted productivity during outages, strikes and valuable data is backed up centrally.

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• Easy to use, centralized on one management server and has a simple UI• Works with their existing infrastructure so they don’t have to buy anything extra

• Want to become a cloud provider for other community colleges• Want a more agile way of managing new datacenter technologies: NetApp, Cisco USC, Flexpod, NetScaler, VMW vSphere hypervisor & more

• Need to provide resources for additional faculty & students

• Able to provide infrastructure services to different departments with centralized management from one datacenter

• Obtain showback of continuing education department resource usage• Use technology via the cloud to become more competitive and flexible and agile to manage technology going forward

Large Community College in U.S.

Challenges & Opportunities

Why Citrix

Results

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Royal Melbourne Institute of TechnologyAchieves agility in provisioning IT resources with Citrix cloud solutions

Needs/Issues• Needed to modernize and simplify their core network and service offerings• Wanted a cloud solution to enable self-service and provide access control• Cloud needed to integrate with Cisco and NetApp

Solution• Tested and deployed Citrix CloudPlatform and CloudPortal Business

Manager• Built 3 types of clouds: Student, Infrastructure and Research private clouds

Results• Ability to deliver unique capabilities for student experience• Seamless management of apps across Development to Test and Production• Rapid turn-around for Research clouds• Ability to create industry collaboration clouds

University Summary

• In top 10 Australian universities

• In top 100 universities worldwide

• 5 campuses across Australia and Vietnam

• Over 74,000 students

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Challenges & Opportunities • Build a cost-effective, private cloud to provide university

researchers unlimited access to academic IT resources• Improve IT utilization • Reduce cost and control power consumption

Solution• Citrix CloudPlatform and Citrix XenServer hypervisor

Result• Reduced operational cost and power consumption by up to

20%• Provided a more agile environment for consuming IT resources• Equipped faculty members with a cost-effective and secure

way to share and store academic data

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