To succeed in today's increasingly complex and demanding business environments, IT departments must be able to take on greater workloads, support greater demand for user productivity and manage larger systems - all with fewer resources. Through their experience working directly with customers in the IT industry, Citrix®, Dell® and Intel® have identified solutions that directly address such IT needs. These three companies have built a synergistic partnership with the goal of helping IT departments become and remain, viable and beneficial parts of their company strategy.

By taking an end-to-end approach, Citrix, Dell and Intel have integrated their products and made highly flexible, centralized, optimized and virtualized computing a reality. This paper introduces key components of this approach:

• Simplifying IT
• Enabling flexible computing
• Optimizing datacenters
• Rethinking the desktop