Citrix today announced a new release of the Citrix
XenDesktop® product, the market-leading desktop virtualization
solution. XenDesktop brings hybrid cloud provisioning to enterprise
desktop virtualization deployments, allowing customers to use Amazon Web
Services (AWS) or any Citrix CloudPlatform™ powered by Apache
CloudStack® cloud to flex, grow or transform their virtual desktop
infrastructure. By leveraging the elasticity and economics of the
world’s largest clouds, customers can add new capacity for seasonal or
unplanned needs without incurring capital expenditures, giving them the
flexibility and resources for the mobile enterprise. XenDesktop is built
on the same FlexCast Management Architecture as Citrix XenApp® (also announced
today), which provides a single console from which customers can deliver
both virtual apps and desktops. XenDesktop is 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. Along with new release of XenDesktop, Citrix announced two
new Citrix Ready® programs addressing hybrid cloud and low-cost
initiatives.
The new mobile world is changing where, when and how people work, and it
is forcing IT to find new ways of supporting the mobile enterprise. The
ability to leverage public cloud resources to support rapidly changing
business needs, such as scaling for seasonal workers and M&A or
optimizing their datacenter operations while carefully managing capex,
is becoming increasingly attractive and necessary. Together, XenApp and
XenDesktop provide the only unified architecture for delivering virtual
apps via XenApp and adding a variety of virtual desktop delivery models
with XenDesktop, increasing IT flexibility and saving infrastructure and
costs.
XenDesktop 7.5 can provision application or desktop workloads to a
private or public cloud infrastructure alongside traditional virtual
infrastructure deployments. Unlike competitors that force customers to
use completely different solutions for on-premise and cloud, XenDesktop
7.5 uses the same management consoles and skillsets, with no new
configuration consoles or training needed. Also unlike competing
solutions, XenDesktop supports an “any cloud” strategy that does not
lock customers into a proprietary cloud with limited geographical
distribution, 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. With one installer and
about one-third of the steps of competing products, XenApp and
XenDesktop have the easiest deployment processes in the market, and are
the only solutions with built-in monitoring and automated provisioning.
New Citrix Ready Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Cloud for
XenDesktop
With the announcement of XenDesktop 7.5, Citrix is also creating a new
Citrix Ready program that provides Citrix validation of
infrastructure-as-a-service for XenDesktop 7.5. The Citrix Ready IaaS
Cloud for XenDesktop gives customers the confidence that XenDesktop will
run on a particular cloud operator’s infrastructure. Cloud providers
that are a part of this program will be required to pass a test suite
verifying the feature correctness of XenDesktop operating in their
environment. The global program gives Citrix customers the ability to
flex their XenDesktop deployments beyond the walls of the datacenter,
tapping public cloud providers to address fluctuating demand or to
leverage regional or purpose-built clouds as a means of addressing
regulatory and compliance needs.
Citrix Ready Low-Cost Converged Infrastructure Verified
Innovation, as a result of collaboration between Citrix and
industry-leading systems and storage vendors, is reducing the cost of
desktop virtualization at a fast pace. A new class of converged
infrastructure architectures are delivering upfront equipment costs of
under $200 per user leveraging local storage, powerful CPUs, and large
capacity low-cost memory. Solutions that are a part of the Citrix Ready
Low-cost Converged Infrastructure Verified program are tested for
performance and high availability whether they are deployed for a few
hundred desktops or scale to a few thousand.
Citrix continues to lead the industry in driving down the cost of
desktop virtualization and offering new choices for customers. The new
Citrix Ready Low-Cost Converged Infrastructure Verified program joins
the successful Citrix
Ready HDX Verified program, which continues to enable game changing
end points built with low-cost HDX SoC-based architecture. Additionally,
Citrix is working with Google around the emerging Chromebook ecosystem
for the enterprise with Citrix Ready validation now complete for many of
the latest Intel® Haswell-based Chromebook offerings that are available.
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
Rakesh Narasimhan, Group VP and GM, Desktops and Apps at Citrix
“The rapidly changing business environment, combined with the
requirements of mobilizing workers, leaves customers looking for more
flexible IT infrastructures to achieve their business goals. The new
release of XenDesktop gives these customers the only unified
architecture for app and desktop delivery, as well as the power of
leveraging hybrid or public cloud infrastructure to optimize datacenter
operations, enabling them to create a more flexible, mobile enterprise.”
Ira Silverman, CEO, Gotham Technology Group, LLC
“Our customers have long recognized the value of being able to deliver
any desktop or app to any device from any cloud. XenDesktop enables our
customers to do just that without locking them into a propriety cloud or
adding unwanted cost and complexity.”
Availability
XenDesktop 7.5 will be available in March 2014.
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