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UK Partner Community Call - Azure - February 2021
UK Partner Community Call –
Azure
February 2021
UK Partner Community Call - Azure - February 2021
Welcome to the Azure Community Call
UK Partner Community Call - Azure - February 2021
• Welcome

• ​Catch up from last time​

• WVD - Opportunity and Market Overview

• Citrix and WVD – Cost Value Analysis

• WVD TP&D Resources

• Cloud Customer Roadmap - with Octopus
  Cloud

• WVD Q3 Customer Offer!
UK Partner Community Call - Azure - February 2021
Catch up on from our last call…

                              • Azure Security Opportunity

                              • Azure SMB Update

                              • New C-Suite Marketing
                                  Campaign
UK Partner Community Call - Azure - February 2021
The Windows Virtual
Desktop Opportunity
and Market Overview
Laura Ussher
AVS & WVD Product Marketing Manager
Azure Business Group
UK Partner Community Call - Azure - February 2021
Contactless   Remote         Curbside        Virtual
Remote       shopping      selling        pickup          events

everything

             Remote        Telemedicine   Secure remote   Remote
             learning                     teamwork        development
UK Partner Community Call - Azure - February 2021
UK Partner Community Call - Azure - February 2021
The WVD opportunity consists of two types of customer…

          1    Brownfield / Migration Customers    2    Greenfield / New Customers

           Customers with on premise VDI                Customers with no on premise
           deployments who can migrate                 VDI but can experience business
          these deployments to Azure with                benefits by moving to WVD
                       WVD

                       Key benefits:                            Key benefits:
              • Windows 10 Multi Session: no            •   Remote working enablement
                cost/ user experience trade offs                  • Security
                    • Cloud economics                              • Agility
                         • Security
                          • Agility

              1.3+ million RDS CALs                5+ million users licensed
                with SA in the UK                  for WVD usage in the UK
UK Partner Community Call - Azure - February 2021
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service with
Windows Virtual Desktop & Azure

Danny Clarke
Lead Sales Engineer, FSI - Citrix
UK Partner Community Call - Azure - February 2021
Simplify and accelerate your journey to Azure
     Citrix delivers more with Windows Virtual Desktop

                           cloud services

     On-prem virtual app​                   Windows Virtual
      and desktop hosts                        Desktop

     Enable hybrid multi-cloud                                 Optimize operations                                  Deliver secure experiences
     Only Citrix manages any on-prem virtualization           Citrix accelerates Windows Virtual Desktop            Only Citrix delivers an optimized user experience
     deployment alongside Windows Virtual Desktop &           deployment and lifecycle maintenance, enabling        on any device, with advanced policy and data
     offers managed Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) for           faster rollouts and time to value, while decreasing   protection controls.
     the fastest and most cost-effective transition to        cloud spending through advanced scalability and
     Azure.                                                   performance optimizations.

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Enable hybrid multi-Cloud
     Only Citrix manages any on-prem deployment alongside
     Windows Virtual Desktop for the fastest & most cost-effective
     transition to Azure.

     •       Unified management of workloads hosted on any on-prem hypervisor or cloud
             platform make it easy to migrate, scale or burst to Azure based on business needs.

     •      Unique hybrid cloud provisioning capabilities increase M&A agility, simplify business
            continuity planning and accelerate geographic expansion.
                                                                                                                           cloud services

     •      Make the most of existing datacenter investments while leveraging the cost savings
            benefits of Citrix Cloud services with Azure and Windows Virtual Desktop.

     * Realize up to 70% savings over three years by leveraging Citrix
     Cloud services with Windows Virtual Desktop as compared to a
     legacy, on-premises Citrix and Microsoft deployment”                                                                                   Windows Virtual Desktop
                                                                                                    On-prem virtual app​
                                                                                                     and desktop hosts
         *Source: Citrix Internal value engineering testing; 2020

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Optimize operations
     Only Citrix streamlines Windows Virtual Desktop deployment
     and lifecycle maintenance, saving you time and money

        •     Unified management tools for rapid image provisioning, simplified lifecycle
              maintenance, and end-to-end monitoring of workloads.

        •     Support & helpdesk tools improve first contact resolutions (FCR) and minimize
              time to resolution (TTR) by actively monitoring deployment health, proven to
              accelerate diagnosis and resolution.

        •     Increased scalability and performance optimizations from Citrix maximize user
              density, improve session performance, and reduce deployment costs.

        •     Citrix managed Desktops-as-a-Service capabilities make it fast and easy to deploy
              Windows Virtual Desktop workloads on Azure in minutes.

      * Savings up to $98 per-user per-year versus                   Five clicks to Desktops-as-a-
      standalone management, performance or                          Service (DaaS) with Citrix-
      monitoring Windows Virtual Desktop add-ons
                                                                     managed WVD workloads.
      from disparate 3rd party vendors.”
     * Citrix internal value engineering testing; 2020

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Deliver secure experiences
     Only Citrix optimizes user experience on any device, with
     advanced policy and data security controls

       •     Unified single sign-on (SSO) access experience to apps and desktops with a wide
             range of identity providers, including password-less access with FIDO2.

       •     Optimized performance of Microsoft Teams and other teleconferencing solutions
             on all devices, including Windows, Mac, Linux and more to come.

       •     Simplify compliance and enhance access control with a granular policy engine
             that provides IT with better insights and control.

       •     Integrate Citrix SD-WAN with Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN to provide high-
             performance connectivity and fine-grained, app-aware QoS control, ensuring a
             great user experience in all network conditions.

       •     Reduce security risk and protect intellectual property with comprehensive session
             recording, watermarking and user behavior analytics.

      Citrix has over 400,000 customers that rely on its security capabilities
      every day to protect sensitive data.

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Simplify and accelerate your journey to the cloud
Citrix delivers more with Windows Virtual
Desktop. Save costs when migrating Citrix
workloads to Microsoft Azure.                                            Savings of

                                                                         ~   70%
                                                                         over 3 years

                                            Licensing
                                             Savings
 Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops service

                                                                                        $17 – $30 per user/month savings
                                                                                          • Citrix Cloud transition licenses
                                                                                          • Windows 10 multi-session

                                                 Operational
                                                  Savings

                                                                                        25-50% Operational savings
                                                                                          • Deploy 4x faster than on-premises
                                                                                          • Centralized management for hybrid
                                                        Infrastructure
                                                            Savings
                                                                                        70+% Infrastructure savings
                                                                                           • Compute + storage + networking
Citrix cloud services with Microsoft Azure:

                                    Improved economics and business value

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Agenda

• Understand cost savings for a customer moving to Citrix Virtual Apps and
  Desktops service and migrating workloads to Azure

• Compare overall cost between native WVD and Citrix with native WVD

  © 2021 Citrix
Simplify and accelerate your journey to the cloud
Citrix delivers more with Windows Virtual
Desktop. Save costs when migrating Citrix
workloads to Microsoft Azure.                                            Savings of

                                                                         ~   70%
                                                                         over 3 years

                                            Licensing
                                             Savings
 Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops service

                                                                                        $17 – $30 per user/month savings
                                                                                          • Citrix Cloud transition licenses
                                                                                          • Windows 10 multi-session

                                                 Operational
                                                  Savings

                                                                                        25-50% Operational savings
                                                                                          • Deploy 4x faster than on-premises
                                                                                          • Centralized management for hybrid
                                                        Infrastructure
                                                            Savings
                                                                                        70+% Infrastructure savings
                                                                                           • Compute + storage + networking
Infrastructure cost optimization

                     Savings from                     Savings from utilizing Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session VMs vs
                     migrating workloads              single session Windows 10 VMs, savings from flexible networking
                     on-prem to Azure                 and compute provisioning (including reserved instances).

                                                                                                                                           >70%
                     infrastructure

                     Citrix
                                                                                                                                           savings
                                                      Citrix Cloud service doesn’t require physical infrastructure for
                     infrastructure                   Delivery Controllers, Director servers, license servers, SQL servers,
                                                      and StoreFront.
                     savings

1000 knowledge workers with medium workloads using single session Windows 10 and migrating workloads to Azure using Windows 10 Multi-session VMs.
Note: WVD is the only way to run Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session
When using Azure Files for storage, customers pay for actual consumed storage (vs. pay for fixed-sized disks)

     © 2021 Citrix
Reduction of operational costs

                        Faster time to             Deploy Citrix workloads up to 4 times faster than on-prem.
                        value                      Citrix cloud services are always up-to-date, helping reduce costs
                                                   associated with upgrading and patching by up to 30%.

                                                   Support business uses cases from simplifying business continuity
                         Deployment
                         flexibility
                                                   and disaster recovery planning to increasing M&A agility through                   30 – 50%
                                                   the flexibility of scalable cloud services and infrastructure
                                                                                                                                        savings

                                                   Unified toolset for VDI and managed DaaS. Integration with
                        Hybrid Cloud VDI &         FSLogix, MSIX app attach, Azure Storage technologies. User and
                        DaaS Management            policy management tools.

 1000 knowledge workers with medium workloads using single session Windows 10 and migrating workloads to Azure using Windows 10 Multi-session VMs.

  © 2021 Citrix | Confidential
License cost savings

                   Savings on RDS CAL with          Customers with a Windows Virtual Desktop entitlement via Microsoft
                                                    365 will see a $17 savings per-user per-month by migrating from
                   Windows Virtual Desktop          Windows Server to Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session; Windows
                   entitlement                      Server still requires RDS CALs.

                   3-year Windows 7
                   Extended Security                With WVD, 3-year Extended Security Update is included for Windows
                                                                                                                                       $17 - $30
                   Updates included                 7 VMs running on Azure                                                               per-user/
                                                                                                                                          month

                   Citrix Customer
                                                    Citrix cloud service include Citrix CSS and customers save even more
                   Success Services                 with transition programs.
                   included

 1000 knowledge workers with medium workloads using single session Windows 10 and migrating workloads to Azure using Windows 10 Multi-session VMs.

   © 2021 Citrix
Example A – 1000 Power Users on Win10 MS
Estimated Savings - ~30% or ~$300K

                                                                                                                                           Note: Figures are
                                                                                                                                           illustrative; actual
                                                                                                                                           savings vary by
                                                                                                                                           user requirements
                                                                                                                                           and other
                                                                                                                                           variables

                    Note: Figures are illustrative; actual savings vary by user requirements and current virtual desktop operating model
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Example B – 1000 Medium workload users on Win10 MS
Estimated Savings - ~33% or ~$350K

                                                     Note: Figures are
                                                     illustrative; actual
                                                     savings vary by
                                                     user requirements
                                                     and other
                                                     variables

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Example C – 500 Heavy graphic users on Win 10 OS
Estimated Savings - ~24% or ~$2.1M

                                                   Note: Figures are
                                                   illustrative; actual
                                                   savings vary by
                                                   user requirements
                                                   and other
                                                   variables

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Comparing TCO
                Native WVD vs Citrix with native WVD

© 2021 Citrix
Simplify and accelerate your journey to the cloud
     Citrix cloud services enhance capabilities while reducing TCO

                                                                                                                                 Savings of
               Third party partner add-ons
               Printing, monitoring, advance management
                                                                                                                                 ~25%                    ~$330K
                                                                                                                                over 3 years             in savings

                           Operational costs                                                         Citrix licensing cost                      7-$10+
               Support and helpdesk tools, application                                                                                          in add-on costs
               management and lifecycle management
                                                                                                      Operational costs
                                                                                               Support and helpdesk tools, application         30-50%
                                                                                               management and lifecycle management             savings

                        Azure infrastructure                                                        Azure infrastructure                       25-50%
                     compute + storage + networking
                                                                                                  compute + storage + networking               savings

               Windows Virtual Desktop                                                       Citrix with Windows Virtual Desktop
           Assumptions:
           1000 knowledge workers with medium workloads using Windows 10 Multi-session VM.
           *Numbers based on internal Citrix testing.*
           * Please contact Microsoft BDM before presenting these slides to a customer

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Azure infrastructure cost optimization

                  CPU and memory               Innovative CPU and Memory optimization technology can
                                               improve user density per VM by 20-43 percent
                  optimization

                  Bandwidth
                  optimization
                                               Ultra-efficient HDX protocol reduces bandwidth usage by
                                               up to 40% and delivers better user experience over high                           25 – 50%
                                               latency network
                                                                                                                                  savings

                                               Increase user density on server systems during daily operation,
                  Autoscale and                powered by an enterprise-grade load balancing algorithm.
                  load balancing               Autoscale allows for better cost savings without sacrificing experience. It
                                               does that through schedule / load based settings

1000 knowledge workers with medium workloads using single session Windows 10 and migrating workloads to Azure using Windows 10 Multi-session VMs.

  © 2021 Citrix
Reduction of Operational Cost

                     Faster and proactive            Lower mean time to resolve (TTR), FCR, Incident
                     troubleshooting                 savings Citrix Director, HDX Insight, CAS/P.

                     Windows and application         Simplified Windows and application lifecycle management, with Citrix
                     lifecycle management            Machine Creation Services and Application Layering, increases speed                 30 – 50%
                                                     of deployment and admin effectiveness, while also reducing
                                                     downtime.                                                                            savings

                     Hybrid cloud and                Unified toolset for VDI and managed DaaS.
                     workload management             User and policy management tools.

1000 knowledge workers with medium workloads using single session Windows 10 and migrating workloads to Azure using Windows 10 Multi-session VMs.

     © 2021 Citrix
Replacement of 3rd party Windows Virtual Desktop add-ons

                                        Troubleshooting

                                           Monitoring

                                                                                                     Enterprise functionality
                                        Universal printing
                                                                                                            included in
                                                                                                Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
                          User environment management

                                       Application layering                                 *Savings of ~$98.59 per user / per year

                      Deployment and management tooling

       1000 knowledge workers with medium workloads using single session Windows 10 and migrating workloads to Azure using Windows 10 Multi-session VMs.
       *Assuming all the add-ons are required in the list above
29      © 2021 Citrix | Confidential
Simplify and accelerate your journey to the cloud
 Citrix cloud services enhance capabilities while reducing TCO

      Third Party Partner Add-ons
                                                          Saves
                                                          $7-$10+
                                                                                              25+%
         Monitoring & advance management                  in add-on                          savings                                                             30 - 50%
                                                                                              over 3 years
                                                          costs                                                                                                    savings
                                                                                                                                                                   over 3 years

                                                                                   Citrix Licensing Cost
                Operational Costs                                                   New Citrix Cloud Customer                                           Citrix Licensing Cost
     Support and helpdesk tools, Application              30-50%
                                                                                                                                                             Cloud Transition - TTU
     management and lifecycle management                  savings
                                                                                    Operational Costs                                                     Operational Costs
                                                                            Support and helpdesk tools, application
                                                                                                                                                Support and helpdesk tools, application
                                                                            management and lifecycle management
                                                                                                                                                management and lifecycle management

              Azure Infrastructure                        25-50%
                                                                                                                                                        Azure Infrastructure
            Compute + Storage + Networking                savings
                                                                                  Azure Infrastructure
                                                                                 Compute + Storage + Networking                                       Compute + Storage + Networking

                   Native WVD                                                       Net New Customer                                                     Existing Customer

     *Assumptions 1000 knowledge workers with medium workloads using Windows 10 Multi-session VM.   Citrix pricing is considered at tired pricing with no additional discount
     *Numbers based on internal Citrix testing

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WVD Adoption                                       Business Challenge
 Accelerate WVD Adoption                            The Partner started to have a lot of queries about Windows Virtual Desktop specially due to the new
                                                    challenges that Covid-19 presented to us all this here, so many of their customer started to have this
Several customers are keen to move for this         need of aligning a good remote work approach, moving sometimes from their old RDS deployments
new era of “remote work” but they were              and others mounting something really from scratch on WVD. They needed someone to help them on
struggling to understand WVD, how can they          the technical side of it and as well on how to really do a proper/correct sales pitch for this new
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                                                    Solution
opportunities within our partner base, and          I’ve made sales pitching sessions as well as technical sessions on WVD for the Sales Team on the
infact our WVD solution total has grown 119%        Partner to ramp up their knowledge for this business needs and helped them on specific scenarios
in the last 3 months. As a result of this growth    that were a little bit more complex for them to gain the opportunity, this resulted on a narrow
we’ve needed assistance as a business on a          partnership between some their sales consultants and me to drive them on a right path on a lot of
number of elements within the solution, as          opportunities.
we’re still in our infancy when it comes to the     Then specifically with a Sales Consultant but not only, we started to have a closer approach for the
technicalities around it. When I have a WVD         opportunities that were coming to tackle them on a tailored way ensuring all stakeholders involved
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way that is ‘understandable’ for those not so       still believe that this will only keep growing, doesn’t matter really if it is a customer with only 30 seats
savvy w/ the solution.”                             or a 300 one, it will be a platform with an immense impact specially on this Pandemic Times. In
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