Case Study: Dutch Ministry of Defence achieves secure, flexible centralized application and desktop delivery with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop

Creates dynamic application and desktop delivery model

The Netherlands Ministry of Defence – with IT operated by IVENT for roughly 70,000 civilian and military users – needed a way to manage and update thousands of standardized desktops and hundreds of applications across a dynamic, distributed organization. Traditional software distribution could not roll out large updates quickly or securely over slow and remote connections, and the ministry needed a flexible, centralized approach that preserved the fat‑client user experience.

IVENT implemented Citrix XenApp to centralize application delivery (running on 250 servers) and XenDesktop with Provisioning Server and XenServer to stream a single golden Windows XP image to users. The solution delivers fast, secure updates and sandboxed Internet access (3,000 concurrent IE sessions), supports tens of thousands of seats and 10,000+ concurrent users, enables secure remote and shipboard access, avoids costly bandwidth upgrades, and lets the organization add applications with no interruption to end users—with plans to migrate an additional 3,000 desktops to the virtualized model.

Ministry of Defence

Danny de Vries

Application Delivery Specialist