It also means that it's quite possible that Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop 7.15 is the last version you'll ever have to deploy on-premises. That means by 2027, there's a really good chance that you'll be leveraging some other desktop virtualization platform that isn't in your datacenter.
#Citrix xenapp 6.5 features windows#
There will still be Windows applications to deliver, for sure, but odds are you're not going to want to build out your own infrastructure on-premises to support them.
Think of what's happening the last ten years, what you can do today, and how that might look in ten years. That's just the five-year outlook! Since extended support runs five years longer than that, you can run XenApp / XenDesktop 7.15 until 2027, which puts us squarely in the next era of computing. The apps you must run on Windows can be placed into XenApp, and the desktops you still need can be run from XenDesktop.
In five years, corporate IT will be more on-board with the cloud than ever before, perhaps so much that they'll be ready to move their desktop environments to the cloud.Īt the same time, more applications will have been moved from Windows to other, more modern platforms, meaning our dependency on the Windows desktop will have diminished. That includes Desktops-as-a-Service, for sure, but it also includes using the cloud as the infrastructure beneath a more traditional desktop virtualization platform. It's quite clear that the main desktop virtualization platforms are focusing on delivering desktops from the cloud. It's that timing that has me wondering if XenApp / XenDesktop 7.15 could be the last version of either product that you deploy on-premises. (Unlike you XenApp 6.5 customers, who have targets on your back from Citrix, VMware, Workspot, Parallels, Chromotif, Teradici, and every other desktop virtualization platform vendor because your platform is so out of date.) Even with new LTSR builds coming out every 12-24 months, you can count on being able to run 7.15 for the next ten years with no pushback from Citrix.
#Citrix xenapp 6.5 features plus#
With 7.15, Citrix provides mainstream support for five years, plus extended support for another five years. The "Long-Term" in LTSR is no joke, either. Citrix will still provide patches and security updates that you'll have to deploy, but will not add any features that require more complex projects.
Version 7.15 LTSR is the latest, greatest version of XenApp and XenDesktop, and since it's basically 7.14 with all the kinks worked out, it represents a great option for those that want to deploy the latest version and take their hands off the wheel for a bit. This latest version, though, presents an interesting situation.
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