Extends Citrix Leadership in App and Desktop
Virtualization with Unmatched User Experience, Security and
Performance
Citrix today announced new releases of XenApp and XenDesktop,
extending its market and technology leadership in application and
desktop virtualization and in business-ready workspaces. XenApp and
XenDesktop 7.6 deliver an unmatched user experience with instant
app access, and virtually eliminate the costs of ensuring storage
performance. The new releases set a new industry standard for
security, and include many new capabilities that can be integrated
seamlessly into existing Citrix environments without disruption.
Cornerstones of the Citrix Workspace Suite, the industry’s most
complete mobile workspace solution, XenApp and XenDesktop are built
on the third-generation FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA), and
are designed to be deployed in the cloud, on-premise and in hybrid
environments.
Delivers An Unmatched User Experience and Instant Access to
Virtual Apps
The new releases provide new renditions of features made popular
in earlier versions of XenApp, such as application pre-launch,
session linger and anonymous logon. These features combine to
deliver instant app access, which not only improves user
experience, but also can be absolutely critical in industries such
as healthcare, where doctors are able to increase their quality of
care as a result. Not only is access accelerated, but also even
more highly available and resilient, with new features that are
able to withstand the temporary loss of a database connection.
The releases also provide new enhancements to the audio, video
and graphics experience. New high-performance graphics acceleration
using GPUs provide high quality DirectX/2D rendering, an important
requirement for engineers and designers. In addition, support for
unified communications such as Lync Server 2013 and generic
redirection of the latest USB 3.0 peripherals like webcams,
headsets and Lync phones for Windows devices are perfect for
contact center agents, contractors and remote workers. These
updates add to the existing wide array of app delivery user
experience functionality that competitors lack, such as driver-less
printing, profile management, client drive access, seamless local
app access and more – all critical to business-ready
workspaces.
To enhance the user experience of Windows apps on mobile
devices, Citrix is also releasing a new update to the HDX Mobile
SDK. In a fraction of the time it takes to re-architect apps for
mobile operating systems, developers can customize their Windows
applications to be mobile-aware and provide features that enable
GPS location awareness, picture and video capture, and screen
rotation re-factoring.
Obliterates Cost Barriers for Delivering High-Performance
Storage
For years, one of the challenges for deploying VDI has been the
storage performance bottleneck and the costs and complexity
associated with the solutions. To address the high Input/Output
Operations Per Second (IOPS) requirements of virtual desktops,
customers had to deploy expensive Solid State Disks (SSDs) and
high-end storage arrays. Even the latest virtual SAN offerings
require costly SSDs to achieve adequate performance. New
enhancements to Citrix provisioning services, a widely deployed
single image management feature of XenApp and XenDesktop uses
commodity servers and RAM to drop the IOPS load on storage by 99
percent. This unprecedented achievement elegantly solves the
storage throughput performance problem without deploying SSDs and
high-end storage arrays.
Only Unified Platform that is FIPS Compliant and under Common
Criteria evaluation
For government agencies and security-minded organizations,
XenApp and XenDesktop provide the only application and desktop
virtualization solution available that meets both Federal
Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance and Common
Criteria evaluation requirements. For U.S. federal and state
government agencies, FIPS compliance is a key requirement, while
Common Criteria remains a global standard for security used
officially in 19 countries and followed by others.
Security enhancements also have been made to enable granular
policies over clipboard content filtering and directional control.
This feature, inspired by customer requirements in the banking
industry to help prevent credit card data hacking, gives IT control
over whether end users can copy into – or out of – their virtual
workspace. In addition, it provides content filtering so that
potentially malicious data, perhaps embedded in Rich Text Format,
cannot be pasted into the secured environment.
Simplifies App Migrations to Latest Versions of
Windows
XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 Platinum editions include the full
power of Citrix AppDNA application migration technology. Some of
the new enhancements include multiple builds assessment,
interoperability testing, application dependency mapping, and group
policy object (GPO) settings detection, which further boost the
performance and accuracy of AppDNA. With these improvements, even
applications with many interdependencies and integrations with
other applications can be assessed, remediated and migrated into
new environments. No other virtualization solution offers this
capability, which is absolutely vital today when customers are
dealing with the end-of-life for Windows XP and pending end-of-life
for Windows Server 2003. With AppDNA, IT can reduce the time and
cost of migrating applications and platforms by as much as 90
percent.
Increases Value-Add and Integration with Microsoft
Solutions
All of these new capabilities in this release are significant
enhancements to the underlying Microsoft platform, enabling
customers to derive further value and greater scalability from the
combined solutions. In addition, the new Citrix Connector 7.5 for
System Center Configuration Manager—developed in close partnership
with Microsoft—enables administrators to use Configuration Manager
to define and manage user access to virtual applications and
desktops powered by Citrix.
Citrix also released a new reference architecture for deploying
XenApp and XenDesktop on Microsoft Azure, complete with sizing and
costing data. Published and optimized in collaboration with
Microsoft engineers, the reference architecture materializes the
Citrix Workspace Services vision on Azure that was first unveiled
at Citrix Synergy in May 2014.
Integrates and Enhances Existing XenApp 6.5
Deployments
Several features of the latest version seamlessly integrate with
XenApp 6.5, including the new provisioning services, updates to
Citrix Receiver, StoreFront and HDX, AppDNA, System Center
Connector, monitoring consoles and more. By adding these new values
and capabilities, customers can improve their current solutions
while simultaneous planning a smooth transition to XenApp 7.6 at
their own pace. To make this task even simpler, Citrix is releasing
new migration tools to help move the existing workloads to the new
architecture when customers are ready.
Streamlines Cloud Deployments with Verified IaaS
Providers
The Citrix Ready IaaS Cloud for XenDesktop program gives
customers the peace of mind that a given cloud provider’s
infrastructure is well-suited for the deployment of
XenApp/XenDesktop. A growing list of verified providers gives
customers choice when it comes to geographic location and level of
service.
Availability
XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 will be available in September
2014.
Quotes:
Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy
Group
“For many years now, IT organizations have spent considerable
amounts of time and budget supporting and managing desktop
computing environments. While the desktop virtualization market
continues to see increased adoption in new application delivery and
VDI deployments, a key challenge for IT has remained in the high
costs associated with traditional storage performance requirements
for these implementations. With the significant reduction in IOPS,
the new enhancements to Citrix Provisioning Services has the
potential to greatly improve user experience without the need for
customers to purchase expensive storage acceleration
solutions.”
Rakesh Narasimhan, Group VP & GM, Desktops and Apps,
Citrix
“XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 demonstrates why Citrix continues to
be the clear leader in all key technologies for delivering business
apps and data to a mobile workforce. This new release positions
customers to take advantage of the operational and cost benefits of
the cloud, also supports hybrid and on-premises data center
deployments, yet continues to deliver the features and performance
people need to work productively on any device in any
location.”
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Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) is a leader in mobile workspaces,
providing virtualization, mobility management, networking and cloud
services to enable new ways to work better. Citrix solutions power
business mobility through secure, personal workspaces that
provide people with instant access to apps, desktops, data and
communications on any device, over any network and cloud. This year
Citrix is celebrating 25 years of innovation, making IT simpler and
people more productive. With annual revenue in 2013 of $2.9
billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than 330,000
organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn more
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