The Citrix ADC solution’s reliability and high-availability (HA) capabilities keeps users connected and productive in ways they don’t even realize because of the platform’s seamless failover capabilities. And running on the Intel Xeon processor E5 v4 family helps further ensure the Citrix ADC solution’s overall availability because of the processor family’s improved encryption, performance, and data availability. LG&E and KU once experienced a failure while upgrading a virtual-machine host; the upgrade caused their Citrix ADC appliance to fail. However, the appliance automatically failed over to standby, and users didn’t experience a single millisecond of disruption. “We were able to do all of that without the end user knowing a thing. It failed over to its standby and never skipped a beat. We’ve done that several times, and it allows us to do a lot of things without having to cause outages for the user. I’ve been very happy with that. The HA and DR functionality is very near and dear to our hearts,” Brumleve says.