Case Study: Horizon Food achieves reliable Citrix performance and faster offsite backups with Exinda

Horizon Food Group Improves Application Performance with Exinda

Horizon Food Group, a leading specialty and private‑label baker with three plants and about 90 employees, faced recurring network performance problems. Their aging Blue Coat PacketShaper lacked granular visibility and was slow to use, so BYOD traffic (notably YouTube and social media) consumed bandwidth and harmed mission‑critical apps like Citrix, printing, email and file transfers, while offsite backups couldn’t run without impacting users.

Horizon deployed Exinda Network Orchestrator 2000 at four locations, gaining real‑time traffic monitoring and an easy policy engine to prioritize Citrix, limit recreational traffic and schedule backups outside peak hours. The solution delivered immediate visibility and control, ensured consistent Citrix performance, accelerated off‑hour backups (reducing completion times) and prevented nonessential traffic from disrupting core business applications.

Horizon Food

Roger Beard

Director of Information Systems