“We started our association with Citrix when we wanted to spin up virtual desktops. At that time, employees used this technology as secondary machines. Now, we have embarked on the cloud journey,” explains Kota. “We looked at all the primary locations in which our engineers are located,” Kota notes. “We had many data centers that hosted Citrix.”
Today, Kota and his team have moved to Citrix solutions, and they are also leveraging public cloud providers for the core infrastructure. “We are truly stitching together the public cloud infrastructure and Citrix Cloud as the management plane so we can spin up virtual desktop and app instances wherever employees are working,” Kota shares.
For Autodesk, its cloud computing capability is crucial. Cloud computing in public clouds involves hosting services and delivering them over the internet. Remote, rented servers store and manage data, thus alleviating the need for private maintenance. Cloud computing also allows individuals and organizations to rent server space in order to decrease the organization’s investment in onsite servers. Full applications, development environments and websites can now be hosted in the cloud.