Comment by mmooss
16 hours ago
> The real benefit for ... Citrix is: latency.
I understand your point about big iron, but where does something like Citrix reduce latency?
My estimation would be: Compared to a desktop Citrix adds distance and layers between the user and the compute/storage/etc., and the competition for resources on the Citrix server would tend to increase latency compared to the mostly idle desktop.
Think WAN latency. Your shitty VB6 app using some awful circa 2002 middleware dies when you have 80ms of latency between you and the server.
Insert Citrix, and the turd app is 3ms away in the data center and works.
I used to run a 100k user VDI environment. The cost was easily 4x from a hardware POV, but I had 6 guys running it, and it was always consistent.
Good points, thanks. But please tell me you didn't have 100k people using that VB6 app with the middleware!