How many DLA employees use Citrix?
Every day 16,000 DLA employees and contractors started remotely accessing Citrix, with as many as 20,000 unique sessions every month. Citrix is the most heavily used of the virtual remote solutions in place within the DLA.
How many remote users are using Citrix?
Between 6,000 and 7,800 remote users already accessed the Citrix platform every day, while most others used Citrix internally. Every day 16,000 DLA employees and contractors started remotely accessing Citrix, with as many as 20,000 unique sessions every month. Citrix is the most heavily used of the virtual remote solutions in place within the DLA.
How can Citrix Virtual Apps and desktops help DLA?
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops enables home-based employees and contractors to securely share information, collaborate, easily access files, and carry out tasks in much the same way that was possible in the office. The same technology will enable DLA to immediately make another transition to whatever the ‘new normal’ work style becomes.
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A long-term strategy was the basis
In order to understand the value of some of the initiatives undertaken by the DLA in its journey, it helps to review goals that have been underscored in recent years:
Before COVID-19: laying a solid foundation for the future
Along with the overarching priority of moving to the cloud, the agency’s long-term strategy provided an ambitious set of goals for the DLA J6 (IT team) that would enable DLA’s path to get there.
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops implementation and datacenter consolidation
Long before COVID-19, multiple Citrix solutions were in use throughout the DLA. The first foundational initiative DLA embarked upon was to take central control of all IT operations. This would allow DLA HQ to start the digital transformation into an enterprise IT environment, streamlining management and controlling costs.
Device choice: crucial for employees and contractors
Another significant change that resulted from the consolidation project was the expansion of the bring your own device (BYOD) model to the entire DLA population, instead of just allowing employees to take advantage of the original home telework program.
The benefit of continuous service
To create an enterprise VDI service that could be migrated to the cloud, DLA decided to consolidate its multiple regional datacenters into two main datacenters, with either being able to host all users in the event of a failover. These datacenters operate in an active/active design, with each housing roughly half of the DLA CONUS user population.
Implementing Citrix ADC SDXs
Citrix ADC (formerly known as Citrix NetScaler) is the tunneling, or proxy, and GSLB solution. This provides FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) 140-2 Level 2 compliant data-in-transit (DIT), and seamless integration with the Citrix client. It is supported by the onsite Citrix consulting staff.
Integrating metrics and better management into the DLA enterprise dashboard
One of the hardest things for enterprise leaders is amassing metrics that equate to success or failure of a project. For IT teams, it is triaging an issue so it can be routed to the correct team and quickly resolved. Citrix is one of the solutions that helps solve these needs.
