10xIT Webinar: Will You Make the Windows XP Deadline in Time?

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Will You Make the Windows XP Deadline in Time?

Risks, Costs and Solutions for Windows XP End of Life and Beyond

10X IT Productivity Webinar Series, Ep. 1

Penny Gralewski

Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Citrix

Sean Donahue

Sr. Director Alliances at RES Software

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Today’s Topics

• What is End of Life?

• Risks / Costs

• Steps to the Demise of Windows XP

• Wrangle your Apps

• Separate your Users

• Windows 8.1?? Windows 9??

• Empower your Users #10xIT

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When? What? Where?

When? April 8, 2014

What?

No more service packs (SP)

No more hot fixes

No more support

Where?

33% - 50% of Enterprise Organization

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Upgrade? Or Roll the Dice?

To Upgrade? Or Not?

Malware

Virus

Soft Targets

Paid Extended

$upport

Rolling 3-Year

$upport

Cost$ Double in

Year 2

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Why Don’t Companies Upgrade?

• Application Libraries

• Too many applications amassed over 10 years

• Incompatibilities with Windows 7 / 8

• Incompatibilities with Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, 10

• Incompatibilities with App-V 4.x / 5

• User Disruption

• 10 years of user familiarity

• Loss of productivity

• Increased help desk burden

• The neighbor effect

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So, how do you

approach this

paradigm?

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Smooth migrations with the right tools

Empower

Discover

Design

Deploy Build

RES Workspace Designer

RES Workspace Manager

SCCM

App-V

Citrix AppDNA

The IT Store

RES Automation Manager

SCCM

XenApp / XenDesktop

Citrix AppDNA

RES BDA

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Step 1 – Identify Scoping

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Choose the both path or mix physical & virtual

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How to solve the real app compat problems

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What’s the time, cost, risk?

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Step 1 – Discover Scoping

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Physical or Virtual

Operating System Application

Physical Install Physical Install

Server-based Computing Hosted Session-based

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure XenApp

Windows on a Stick App-V Streaming

Image Management Package Management

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The Growing Impact on IT

Is managing

IT getting

too complex

and costly?

Traditional Apps &

PC Lifecycle

Management Systems

Task Workers

& Desktop PCs

Virtualized &

Streamed Apps

Knowledge Workers

& Laptops

Virtual &

Remote Desktops

Mobile Workers

& Tablet PCs

Cloud-Based Apps &

Mobile Device

Management

Remote/Home Office

Workers & smart phones

App Delivery &

Management User Workstyles &

Devices

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User Disruption

This

doesn’t

work…

Help me!

This is

so slow!!

I hate

this new

desktop!

I used to

have…

I can’t

find…

Where is

my ….?

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Make the user agnostic

Windows XP • Applications

• Data

• Printers

• Settings

Windows 7 SBC

Citrix XenDesktop

Windows 7

Windows 9

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Is it Just about Happy Users?

• Consistency is key to happy users

• Faster access is also key

• IT needs compliance and control

• Nirvana is providing the right IT services to the right

users in the right situation

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Location and Device Awareness

Examples:

• Network location

• OS type

• Application version

• USB storage

• Hardware spec

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Enterprise Class Management

• Single management console

• Lightweight architecture

• Just a few clicks away

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Step 6: High Five

Place Hand Here

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Delivering Customer, Partner Success

Read the best case study ever

http://www.ressoftware.com/resources/case-studies

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Don’t hesitate to reach out to us:

Sean Donahue

Sr. Director Alliances

[email protected]

@SeanDo40

Penny Gralewski

Sr. Product Marketing Mgr.

[email protected]

@AppDNA

www.citrix.com/appdna

Questions? Comments? Concerns?

Thank you for attending!

Stay tuned for the next episode of the

IT Productivity Webinar Series

http://www3.ressoftware.com/10xIT2.html

Try Citrix AppDNA

http://try.citrix.com/AppDNATrial

Read the best case study ever

http://www.ressoftware.com/resources/case-

studies

Watch the whiteboard of XP EoL

http://www.youtube.com/user/RESSoftware

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