Citrix today announced the next generation of the Citrix
XenApp® product, the market-leading app virtualization solution. As
the workforce becomes increasingly mobile, businesses are struggling
with how to deliver core Windows apps to an ever wider variety of
devices. While re-architecting and re-writing these apps for mobile
platforms may take months or years, customers can use XenApp to mobilize
Windows apps today and deliver a native, high-performance,
multi-touch-enabled experience as a result of the latest enhancements to
Citrix HDX technologies.
In addition, enterprise IT can now burst and grow their virtual
applications to the cloud in real-time with hybrid cloud provisioning,
built into the new simplified and streamlined XenApp management console.
With out-of-the-box support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and
CloudPlatform™ powered by Apache CloudStack® clouds, and Microsoft Azure
cloud support under development, XenApp is the only solution that can be
easily deployed both in the cloud and on-premises with the same
management interfaces and skillsets. This offers IT an unprecedented
ability to reduce capital expenditures by leveraging the elasticity of
the world’s largest public clouds. All these capabilities enable the new
XenApp 7.5 to dramatically reduce the costs and complexity of
virtualizing Windows apps and helping to drive the Citrix vision of the
mobile workspace to securely deliver apps, desktops, files and services
seamlessly to any user, on any device, over any network.
Driving Down Cost and Complexity
The new XenApp 7.5 is built on the FlexCast Management Architecture used
in the Citrix XenDesktop® solution (also announced
today), which provides a single console from which customers can deliver
both virtual apps and desktops. Competitors that can only deliver entire
virtual desktops often force users to open multiple desktops just to
access apps that conflict with each other or run on different versions
of Windows. With 25 years of delivering virtual apps to 330,000
customers, XenApp allows users to simply see a selection of available
apps at their disposal. These apps might originate from any of five
generations of Windows, all hosted and managed from the same
infrastructure.
XenApp Platinum edition now includes the full power of Citrix AppDNA™
application migration technology, which can reduce time and overhead of
application virtualization and platform migrations by as much as 90
percent. The inclusion of all the AppDNA capabilities helps IT address a
variety of migration issues, including how to virtualize applications
ahead of Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 end-of-life
milestones.
Leveraging the Elasticity of Public Clouds
XenApp 7.5 provides the ability for hybrid cloud provisioning directly
to AWS or CloudPlatform-powered clouds without having to learn new
management consoles and skillsets. This allows customers to instantly
add new capacity to handle seasonal requirements, address incremental
growth, and add on-demand capacity for disaster recovery or business
continuity. Unlike competitors, XenApp supports an “any cloud” strategy
and does not lock customers into a proprietary cloud, but instead allows
them to leverage any of the large public clouds on the market.
Initially, hybrid cloud provisioning will be supported for AWS or any
CloudPlatform-powered public or private cloud. Over time, new support
will be added including the previously announced
support for Windows Azure cloud platform.
Delivering a True Mobile Experience
To ensure a true mobile experience of Windows apps, enabling them to
function intuitively and transparently on mobile devices, XenApp
includes Citrix HDX Mobile. HDX Mobile optimizes Windows apps for
mobile devices including touch-enabled smartphones and tablets. It
enhances performance by intelligently coping with the variability and
packet loss of mobile networks and improving graphics and multimedia
with hardware acceleration on tablets and smartphones. With the HDX
Mobile SDK, developers can completely transform Windows apps into
mobile-native experiences by re-factoring the look and feel and enabling
multi-touch gestures, native menu controls, camera and GPS support from
within the virtual app.
Extending Security to Mobile Devices
For a limited time, XenApp and XenDesktop Platinum edition customers can
add mobile device management (MDM) or enterprise mobile management (EMM)
capabilities at a discount. The Platinum Mobility Promotion enables
these customers to get Citrix XenMobile® MDM edition for the price of
Software Maintenance, or XenMobile Enterprise edition at a 20 percent
discount off the product price. This offer expires September 30, 2014;
restrictions apply.
Quotes
Brett Waldman, Research Manager, Client Virtualization Software at IDC
“When end users first started to bring their mobile devices into work,
the simple ability to access corporate Windows applications and desktops
gave them the flexibility and agility they wanted. However, as these
mobile devices start to become their primary device, they are demanding
these virtual apps to have a consistent user experience with the device
they using at the time. The vendors that can provide the best mobile
experiences in a scalable and cost effective manner are positioning
themselves to succeed in this dynamic market.”
Rakesh Narasimhan, Group VP and GM, Desktops and Apps at Citrix
“Increasingly, the mobile workforces of today demand a great experience
with Windows applications. The new release of XenApp not only delivers
on the Citrix vision of mobile workspaces for customers, with a powerful
user experience, but allows companies to take full advantage of the
flexibility of hybrid public and private clouds to optimize their IT
infrastructures for the rapidly changing business environment.”
Mark Ciprietti, Vice President of Sales, Gibraltar Solutions
“Our clients want to deploy a truly mobile workforce. XenApp enables
clients to deliver any Windows application to any device securely and a
key part of our Citrix based mobility strategy. We are thrilled with
Citrix’s announcement and the decision to strengthen their industry
leading position.”
Availability
XenApp 7.5 will be available in March 2014
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