Anthem Group Deploys Citrix Virtualisation Solutions

Anthem Group, the holding company comprising sub organisations - Anthem BioSciences, Anthem Cellutions and Anthem BioPharma announced the implementation of Citrix server and desktop virtualisation solutions, resulting in secured remote access and boosted productivity for employees in addition to enhanced business continuity.

Being a start-up on a fast track growth path, the company couldn’t afford to have n+1 concepts i.e. server clustering, rolling out patch management software and wanted to avoid the challenging and cumbersome process of traditional desktops by provisioning them with the requisite user applications. Additionally, the company also wanted to enforce a remote working policy for its employees while ensuring secure data access and constant uptime. To meet these business imperatives, the company opted for Citrix XenServer and Citrix XenDesktop solutions.

Ravi Kalla, Senior Manager – IT, Anthem Group said, “Desktop and server virtualisation are invaluable technologies to address spiralling costs of IT infrastructure in today’s environment. After a careful market assessment, we decided to deploy Citrix technologies which aligned perfectly to our business needs. Through a highly cost effective, quick and simple implementation process, today we can enable optimal employee uptime and flexibility to work from anywhere, through secure remote data access.”

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For the server virtualisation roll-out, Anthem Group deployed Citrix XenServer solution, which eliminated the need to buy any additional hardware to deploy four critical server applications in the company and reduced the deployment time to three-four days. This resulted in substantial cost reduction on server, power and cooling costs while facilitating increased administrative efficiency. The company also deployed Citrix XenDesktop solution, which enabled employees to have an unchanged desktop experience. The company employees are also able to remotely access data as Citrix’s desktop virtualisation solution runs on all devices with minimal bandwidth consumption.

Users will benefit from enhanced productivity as the ‘on-demand’ capabilities of Citrix solutions can enable desktop access to any user on any device anywhere with unparalleled simplicity and scalability. Through this implementation, Anthem Group has been able to save more than 35 percent in desktop computing costs and 62 percent in power expenses by enabling easy, centralised management of desktops and applications and reducing the need to refresh expensive hardware through Citrix desktop virtualisation. Through server virtualisation, the company created ten virtual servers from just two pre-existing physical servers which resulted in savings of 60 percent.

“We are pleased to support Anthem group by enabling mobile work-styles, heightened productivity levels for their employees and facilitating seamless business continuity through our desktop and server virtualisation solutions. As a key player in the virtualisation space, our association with Anthem Group is a testimony of our industry leading solutions, aligned with the business goals of an organisation.” said Sanjay Deshmukh, Area Vice President, India Subcontinent, Citrix.