We performed a comparison between Apache Guacamole and Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about TeamViewer, Microsoft, Citrix and others in Remote Access."I'm using Apache Guacamole as a gateway."
"Stable product with straightforward setup."
"It virtualizes the application on your desktop."
"This is a very stable solution which you can feel confident using."
"I found the ease of deployment, scalability, and security to be to our benefit when supplying virtual applications to our clients."
"You can connect to any printer, and from anywhere you can print documents using a compressed channel. It is easy and the bandwidth is very low."
"The most valuable feature is the gateway to a remote connection, to a physical or a virtual PC. Compared to a normal VPN client and connection, the connection via Citrix is more stable and does not consume as much network bandwidth."
"For the most part, overall stability is what you would expect."
"The user experience when using the solution's technology remotely is definitely superior to our VPN and/or Windows Remote Desktop. It's a much better user experience for those folks."
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"The solution's USB redirection could be improved."
"The user profiles could use some improvement."
"There have been many issues with stability."
"As an end-to-end solution for implementing Zero Trust principles I would rate it a six or a seven out of 10, because it doesn't cover all aspects of Zero Trust. There are quite a few aspects you need to cover."
"Where improvement could be driven is in terms of clarity as to the functionality of some of the solutions. If you go back to the older Citrix Xen products that we had, we understood those really well. As we've come into the new workstation premium suite, there is a lot of additional functionality that we perhaps have not yet fully exploited. It is not because we can't, but simply because we don't yet understand the depth of functionality that's offered."
"Citrix has to support all of the hypervisors including KVM and OpenStack KVM."
"I think improvement around the Analytics piece is super important. There has been a lot of maturity over the last year in that area, though a lot more needs to be done. Also, a lot more of the value of those Analytics needs to be sold to end users. Citrix is working on a lot of things that are ahead of the curve and a lot of organizations aren't quite there yet with implementing those technologies and capabilities."
"The cost of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is high and has room for improvement."
"Our experience of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is good, but the environment can become complex and difficult to manage at times."
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Apache Guacamole is ranked 20th in Remote Access with 1 review while Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is ranked 3rd in Remote Access with 90 reviews. Apache Guacamole is rated 8.0, while Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Apache Guacamole writes "A stable and open-source solution that can be used as a gateway". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) writes "Flexible Deployment, reliable performance, and fast transmission speeds". Apache Guacamole is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, VNC Connect, BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access, F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) and Check Point Remote Access VPN, whereas Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is most compared with VMware Horizon View, Citrix Workspace, Amazon Appstream, Amazon WorkSpaces and Microsoft App-V.
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