G20 meeting - impact on IT

The flexibility of Citrix returns real business value again today. With the G20 summit in London many financial companies have asked employees to work from home or take the day off.

Companies that have utilised Citrix for pandemic or DR planning including a remote SSL VPN gateway, have the flexibility needed to support a large percentage of the work force connecting from home. Looking at one company this morning a fifth of the workforce were already online and connected by 7.30am

Talking to a colleague at one of the largest banks in London, he had provisioned an additional 40 servers into the working from home solution this week providing adequate capacity for 5,000 concurrent users in total , should a London building need to be evacuated.