First Look At The New Citrix Project Accelerator

Earlier this year, Citrix announced an upcoming revamp of their Accelerator online tool. If you have not used it in the past, your missing out. For newbies or customers looking for help planing out a XenApp or XenDesktop (or both) deployment, Citrix has made a great effort to help get you started. There is A LOT of content available in the Project Accelerator tool. You can plan a start to finish deployment using a plethora of resources. The tool is also helpful when making decisions on what type of VDI you should deliver, as well as some scaling options. Yesterday Citrix provided a first look on the revised tool. I was able to go in and walk through the "Assess" portion of the tool. The "Design" and "Deploy" portions are apparently still under construction. Below are some screenshots of the steps I went through. I look forward to the production roll out of this tool. I will post more blogs, as the other portions of the tool become available. A link to the tool is listed below. (MyCitrix Account Required) Cheers

http://project.citrix.com/ 

Start Screen

Define Your Organization

Define Your Current Skillset

Define Your Project

Define Your User Groups (ex. Task Workers)

Start to Define App Requirements

Link Your Users to Apps

Finished!!

Review Possible Sizing Metrics