XenDesktop 7 brings apps and Windows desktops in a mobile world

XenDesktop 7 brings apps and Windows desktops in a mobile world -

As announced today in Los Angeles Synergy, Citrix introduced XenDesktop 7 with availability scheduled for download June.

I've never been happier to launch a product. XenDesktop 7 reaches the Enterprise IT organizations at a critical time in the evolution of our industry, ready to meet both old and new challenges. XenApp has long been an essential tool for companies to help provide secure access to applications from any device. This simple principle has never been more important than "Any Device" and "Any Where" took entirely new meanings to the rapid adoption of mobile devices, pressures and opportunities to enable Bring your own device initiatives, the ever increasing pressures of the security and protection of intellectual property and private data in a cloud world / mobile.

I recently sat down with Calvin Hsu, marketing vice president for XenDesktop product here Synergy understand how XenDesktop 7 brings apps and Windows desktops in a mobile world.

As I discussed XenDesktop 7 with clients and customers, some common conversations have emerged:

applications you want are probably mobilize the applications you have already

There is no doubt that a new breed of developers of enterprise applications focus on mobile devices. Companies will use mobile applications in the cloud, construction and / or edit their own or purchase applications for use by their employees. Trends do not matter ... It is happening now. Citrix XenMobile can secure and deliver these new mobile applications, messaging and Web applications. At the same time, however, most companies have hundreds and typically Windows enterprise thousands of applications related to data, workflows and processes that can not be easily rewritten or more importantly, Rearchitected for platforms mobile. Making these Windows applications available for business tablets and smartphones using XenDesktop 7 is simplified with new mobile technologies that translate HDX hosted Windows applications for mobile devices.

The choice of hosted desktop technology just got easier

Citrix has emerged as the leader in desktop virtualization because it offers a choice in technology desktop and application delivery that allows our users to use the right tool for the job. With the choice, however, came the complexity that our new customers were fully understand their use cases and build the XenApp or XenDesktop appropriate infrastructure to meet their immediate needs. While overtime most customers would be left with both deployed and integrated products, startup required a choice, or shared hosted VDI?

Now XenDesktop 7 brings these two options together in one product to make the choice between deploying a hosted shared desktop RDS or VDI desktop for a user or a simple group as choosing the right base image, policies and resources. There is absolutely no reason why religious arguments across both technologies. The requirements will lead the discussion for the least cost, hosted shared option when appropriate and all the power and flexibility of persistence, a single image managed VDI when necessary.

centralization is still the best way to secure data

While hosting Windows applications for a mobile environment can be good for legacy applications you do not want to rewrite and re-architect it also remains true that there are data not want you on any device, or any other network. Construction of new Windows applications that take advantage of the rich and skills development toolkits available today and hosting as a service is the most reliable method to empower users to be productive anywhere while ensuring that the data never leaves the data center. The risk tolerance dataloss varies by industry, application and user, and leveraging local encrypted data with ShareFile on a managed or unmanaged devices protects against the most malicious threats and not malicious. However, taking advantage of hosted Windows applications will still be a strong option for the protection of intellectual property in a series of policy and access controls offered by Citrix.

Great TCO is now given

For years, the business conversation around desktop virtualization revolved around TCO or Total Cost of Ownership. Why? because the financial analysis should represent a higher initial investment to be offset by lower operating costs over time. investment calculation is relatively easy, but the calculation of long-term savings of the operational work is pretty subjective stuff.

Today, most IT professionals know ...

1. The management and owner device is more difficult that the devices do not support and have

2. Build and maintain service is more predictable and scalable that represents a labor pool "best efforts"

3. It really is hard to put a price tag on the security until it's too late

So the only real question: is affordable desktop virtualization? Can my personal build, support and maintain it?

Citrix himself surrounded by other industry leaders to eliminate the cost and complexity of desktop virtualization. the server power has increased exponentially. The new storage I / O technologies emerged and a cache. Graphics and video compression offload technologies have been developed. While working together, simple, pre-tested, pre-size architectures are now available who question the cost of acquiring any PC, but with the benefits of mobility, security and management that can not be matched .

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For more information on XenDesktop 7 check out "What's New"