Case Study: State of Mexico achieves centralized IT, reduced costs and 80% energy savings with Citrix XenDesktop

The State of Mexico trades distributed PCs for virtual desktops with Citrix

The State of Mexico’s IT organization (DGSEI) faced growing administrative, security and energy challenges from a fleet of distributed PCs and aging servers managed by just seven staff. With data stored locally, frequent device failures, high power consumption and limited centralized control, DGSEI needed a way to consolidate infrastructure, protect sensitive government information and reduce operational costs.

DGSEI chose a Citrix virtual desktop solution with thin-client devices—deploying XenDesktop, XenApp, XenServer and secure remote access—installed in four months with partner support. The rollout centralized applications and data, cut technical-support workload and help-desk calls, enabled user mobility and faster app deployment, and reduced endpoint energy use by about 80% (from ~100W to ~20W), a model later adopted by other state agencies.

State of Mexico

Martin Carranza

Head of Technological Planning Department, DGSEI