Calculator · Citrix & VDI
Put a number on what your aging Citrix environment really costs each year, from legacy servers and hypervisor licensing to firefighting, outages and tools your Citrix license already includes.
Citrix tech debt is the yearly cost of running an outdated Citrix environment: legacy servers and hypervisor licenses, manual patching and firefighting, outages, and separate tools you pay for even though your Citrix license includes them. It builds up quietly, and it usually shows up as budget overruns, audit findings and frustrated users.
This calculator totals those costs and estimates how much a modernization could recover. Many Citrix upgrade and modernization projects may qualify for Citrix Funded Pro Services.
Estimated annual tech debt
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Estimate only, for planning purposes, not a quote. Defaults are planning assumptions; replace them with your own numbers.
Select the tools you use in step 2 to see where Citrix already covers them.
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Servers times annual cost per server, plus hypervisor licensing, admin hours times 52 weeks times hourly cost, outage hours times affected users times productivity cost, plus overlapping tools.
Hypervisor licensing and any tools your current Citrix license already covers are counted as fully recoverable. Your technology inventory maps every tool you use to its Citrix equivalent, such as NetScaler, UniconOS, Experience Insights, SecurAccess and deviceTRUST, based on the license you own. Infrastructure, admin time and outages are reduced by the improvement you choose.
Security risk from unsupported versions, audit and cyber insurance findings, and user churn are real but not counted, which keeps the estimate conservative.
Citrix tech debt is the ongoing cost of running an outdated Citrix environment, including legacy servers, hypervisor licensing, manual patching and firefighting, outages and separate tools that duplicate what your Citrix license already includes.
Upgrade to a supported release such as Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2607 LTSR or move the control plane to Citrix DaaS Cloud, consolidate onto XenServer, and retire tools your Citrix license already includes. Altanora plans and delivers these projects, and many qualify for Citrix funding.
Citrix Universal Hybrid Multi-Cloud includes Citrix DaaS Cloud and Local, NetScaler, 10,000 XenServer sockets, SecurAccess ZTNA, Endpoint Management, and unlimited UniconOS, Experience Insights and deviceTRUST. See all entitlements →
Yes. Unsupported versions stop receiving security fixes, which is a common audit and cyber insurance finding, and troubleshooting takes longer when vendor support is limited.
Often, yes. Through Citrix Funded Pro Services (CPSI), Citrix can fund some or all of the services on eligible projects, subject to Citrix approval. Learn about Citrix funding →
A Citrix health check shows where your environment stands and which fixes may qualify for Citrix funding.
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