Citrix integrates RingCube to VDI platform

BANGALORE, INDIA: Citrix Systems announced a new version of its XenDesktop product line, the XenDesktop 5.5.

The new XenDesktop 5.5 comes with a new “personal vDisk” technology acquired earlier this month from RingCube, to all editions of XenDesktop.

XenDesktop 5.5 also features Citrix HDX user experience technology, enabling customers to deliver virtual desktops up to three times faster for both LAN and WAN users, claims the company in a release.

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Citrix says that by using XenDesktop 5.5 customers can build 'private desktop clouds', delivering virtual desktops and apps with rich voice, video and multimedia support to over one billion end user devices, even for the most challenging remote, branch and mobile users.

Using XenDesktop 5.5, customers can deliver self-service apps and desktops to over one billion devices, including PCs, Macs, tablets, smartphones and thin clients — and all major device operating platforms, including new environments such as Apple iOS, Google Android and Google ChromeOS.

XenDesktop 5.5 comes with Citrix XenClient 2 as a standard feature, XenApp 6.5 as an integrated feature and also supports Microsoft RemoteFX, a key capability of Microsoft Hyper-V.

Bob Schultz, group vice president and general manager, Enterprise Desktops and Applications, Citrix, said: “With this new release of XenDesktop, we are making virtual desktops simple and affordable for IT by incorporating technology from our recent RingCube acquisition. Bringing together on-demand apps with XenApp, support for billions of devices with Citrix Receiver, XenDesktop enables enterprises to transform their distributed desktop computing into an on-demand service delivered from their own private clouds.”

XenDesktop 5.5, XenApp 6.5 and XenClient 2 are available at $95 per user or device for the VDI-only edition.

Comprehensive desktop and application virtualization is available in the Enterprise or Platinum editions, priced at $225 and $350.

XenClient 2 is available standalone as a free download from the Citrix website and included along with the Synchronizer for XenClient with XenDesktop Enterprise and Platinum.