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Citrix XenServer and more

The partnership between Fujitsu and Citrix has a long history and consequently Fujitsu is a founding member of the Citrix Technology Alliance, which was founded in early 2009.

Citrix server virtualization XenServer is part of our Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures portfolio and Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers together with Fujitsu ETERNUS storage systems are the ideal platform to run Citrix XenServer. Additionally, the management of our Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers, Fujitsu ServerView Suite, is extended to integrate Citrix XenServer to be monitored by ServerView. This results in a uniform management experience for your entire IT infrastructure.

According to various analysts’ statements, Citrix XenServer is from the technology point of view number two in the server virtualization market. The reasonably priced product is deeply integrated with the well established and also more recent client virtualization solutions from Citrix.

Fujitsu Zero Clients or Fujitsu FUTRO thin clients together with Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers, ETERNUS systems and Fujitsu network components are the basis for achieving a very high-performance, reliable and easy-to-use virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). To have the appropriate management for your XenServer-based environment Fujitsu offers Citrix XenDesktop as the well-fitting complement management for your VDI project.

Moreover, Fujitsu is a global system integrator of Citrix solutions. Our certified IT consultants in our local competence centers have supported the benchmarking, sizing, integration and rollout of many Citrix projects. Fujitsu accompanied Citrix thru all generations of terminal server solutions, such as Winframe, Metaframe, Presentation Server and now XenApp and Fujitsu provides XenApp, which we by the way use ourselves, and further Citrix components at your request.

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University of Bonn: The University of Bonn bears the name of Prussia’s King Friedrich Wilhelm III., who founded this famous institution of higher learning in 1818. Today, it is one of Germany’s great universities, one that produced two Nobel laureates: Wolfgang Paul and Reinhard Selten.

Rhine-Sieg Public Transport Company (RSVG): Rhine-Sieg Public Transport Company (RSVG) services 62 bus lines in the Rhine-Sieg District/Bonn (North Rhine-Wesfalia) region. Fujitsu's challenge was the creation of a high performance and robust IT infrastructure as the basis for a new control center and an intermodal transport control system (ITCS). The Solution comprise PRIMERGY RX300 S6 servers combined with an EXTERNUS DX80 storage system and CELSIUS work stations.

Virtual Desktop Environment: Vienna Tourist Board takes a new approach to client management with Fujitsu: “Vienna, now or never” – in 2011 alone, more than 5.2 million people followed this slogan and discovered the heritage, culture and excitement that distinguish Austria’s capital city on the Danube. Vienna is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. And the Vienna Tourist Board (WienTourismus) makes every effort to ensure that the city maintains its international reputation as an attractive and cosmopolitan metropolis. The Vienna Tourist Board is the official tourism agency for Austria’s capital. Based on a convincing proof of concept, Fujitsu showed the customer how desktop virtualization would be the ideal solution to optimize IT administration and user operations. The core of the solution is built around the leading server virtualization technology: Fujitsu PRIMERGY industry-standard servers and VMware vSphere. This gives the customer a stable, high-performance environment for running virtual desktops with maximum efficiency and resource utilization. The personalized virtual desktops running on the server platform are provisioned with VMware View, and users access them via their new Fujitsu Zero Clients.

Sultan Qaboos University Hospital revamps doctors’ toolkit and revitalizes patient care: Sultan Qaboos University Hospital is committed to provide teaching, research and patient-centred care in an environment that supports continuous improvements. It employs approximately 2,258 medical professionals and treated more than 380,000 patients in 2011. The Challenge: Transformation of the platform running core medical software and services, using virtualization to enhance management, performance and efficiency of the hospital datacenter. This ultimately led to a measurable improvement in doctor efficiency and patient satisfaction. The Solution: The existing fragmented IT environment was replaced with new hardware and a 50-strong virtual server fleet. The environment is managed centrally, enabling administrators to respond faster to user requests and ensure system downtime is kept to a minimum.