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Green IT: Reducing your Carbon Footprint with Citrix

Overview Going green has become an imperative, not an option, for companies facing the new reality of balancing business objectives with dwindling environmental resources. Limited energy supply and skyrocketing costs are compelling organizations to take radical measures to reduce their carbon footprint. Read on to learn how Citrix products can help bring environmental and organizational objectives into alignment by alleviating the energy impact of equipment needed to serve both the datacenter and the desktop. You'll discover how Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop work independently, and in concert, to dramatically reduce your carbon footprint as well as your power costs.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Citrix Systems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Storage Management, Database Management, Virtualization

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