How CloudBridge helps your business

Improved virtual experience for branch offices

CloudBridge with integrated HDX technologies accelerates, controls and optimizes virtual desktops delivered by XenDesktop and virtual applications delivered by XenApp, while Citrix Receiver extends application acceleration benefits to mobile users. Combined with Access Gateway, CloudBridge improves user experience and productivity by providing fast, secure remote access. This enables enterprises to support up to four times more users of virtual apps and desktops by caching, optimizing ICA and storing streamed application packages on appliances in branch offices. Enterprise IT teams can orchestrate service delivery across IT networks to ensure the best user experience everywhere.

Integrated cloud services connectivity

Ensure complete security for data in motion between the corporate datacenter or branches to third-party clouds while delivering services on-demand to users. CloudBridge is also a pre-integrated option at third-party cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure.

Optimal use of WAN bandwidth

CloudBridge optimizes use of existing capacity and reduces bandwidth consumption per desktop by up to 90 percent, allowing you to serve up to four times more users and reduce the cost of ongoing bandwidth without upgrading. CloudBridge also reduces traffic for bandwidth-hungry applications such as file transfers, software distribution, backups and data replication by up to 95 percent. IT organizations can adaptively allocate bandwidth to applications in order to align with business priorities.

Acceleration of traditional enterprise applications

Citrix CloudBridge accelerates traditional enterprise applications, including Microsoft App-V, file sharing (CIFS), Microsoft Exchange and web applications such as SharePoint. With CloudBridge, branch-office users experience faster printing, file downloads, video streaming and application start-up times, allowing them to get more done in less time.

Optimized video bandwidth

Video consumption in the enterprise is growing by 200% according to industry analysts, due to video training classes, rich media-based product announcements, and employee web viewing.  As a result of this growing amount of video and the demands it places on the enterprise WAN, Citrix CloudBridge provides enterprise IT with integrated video bandwidth optimization via its de-duplication, video caching and traffic policing features to significantly reduce video demands for branch offices.  

Faster storage replication between datacenters

Primary datacenters need to move their core data, which can easily exceed the terabyte range, to secondary facilities to help protect against losing data in a disaster. Despite all the planning and sizing of the network, latency and congestion can still cause replication issues. CloudBridge provides performance protection to ensure continuous and optimized availability of storage replication.