Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solutions

Today’s enterprises are rapidly adopting desktop virtualization to reduce operating costs, enable workplace flexibility, increase business agility and bolster their information security and compliance posture. Actually realizing these benefits, however, depends upon ensuring the security and availability of the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). The combination of Citrix NetScaler and Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls secures virtual desktops and ensures their availability, performance and scalability. This solution not only preserves the benefits promised by VDI, it maximizes them. This joint solution is tested and validated for securing Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop VDI.

Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls enable advanced, identity-based granular application control, threat prevention, and content leak protection for resources being accessed from virtual desktops. Our firewall can be deployed at the backend of your virtual desktop infrastructure to safely enable applications for your virtual desktop users. Palo Alto Networks User-ID technology allows you to set up firewall policies based on your users and user-groups, rather than relying on static IP addresses on the network. We offer User-ID and Terminal Services agents that allow you to easily identify your virtual desktop users and apply security policies to them, regardless of which type of VDI environment you’ve implemented. We also provide a wide-range of purpose-built hardware platforms that are optimized for performance to ensure that protection will scale alongside your VDI efforts.

With Palo Alto Networks, you can maximize the availability, performance, and scalability of your virtual desktops, while experiencing the peace of mind that your entire infrastructure is secure from known and unknown malware and targeted attacks.

Our integration with Citrix NetScaler SDX also provides you a consolidated security and application delivery controller (ADC) solution for Citrix XenApp XenDesktop deployments.

Virtual Network Infrastructure at Granite State Electronics

One of the key benefits of the Palo Alto Networks integration with XenApp and XenDesktop applications is the ability to integrate user identity information, which allows organizations to set up firewall policies based on an individual or group basis, and provides visibility into user activity via detailed reports and logs. The interaction between the VDI and the Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall simplifies policy creation and management, allowing the firewall to dynamically identify users and enforce security policies.

"Great Pricing, Support, and Logistics. GSE has come through for us every-time whether its Internationally or Domestic."Sr. Director, Global IT Infrastructure & Telecom, PerkinElmer Inc.

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solutions

"Great Pricing, Support, and Logistics.
GSE has come through for us every-time
whether its Internationally or Domestic."

Sr. Director, Global IT Infrastructure & Telecom, PerkinElmer Inc.