Ardence Technology now integrated within Citrix

Back in December of 2006, Citrix Systems, Inc. announced that it would acquire privately held Ardence for their operating system streaming technology in order to further the Citrix strategic end-to-end application delivery infrastructure. Since the acquisition, Citrix has been working toward integrating the technology into its own product line. And the integration is now complete with Citrix Provisioning Server 4.5.

Citrix Provisioning Server for Desktops uses a streaming technology to delivery a single, standard desktop image, operating system and software stack on-demand to physical desktops.

By delivering server workloads on-demand rather than deploying them on individual desktops, Provisioning Server for Desktops 4.5:

• Uses software-streaming technology to deliver operating systems and applications on-demand to physical desktops as a service from the network.

• Desktops with the same OS/application stack can be provisioned on-demand from a single, standard image.

• No software is pre-installed or permanently installed on the desktop hardware.

• Application processing takes place at the desktop.

• Desktops can operate disklessly.

Citrix is probably still best known to many for its old Metaframe and now its Presentation Server thin client computing platform. Since the acquisition of XenServer and the company’s continued journey towards its end-to-end strategy, Citrix has been trying to educate the IT community and its sales channels that the company is more than just application provisioning. With acquisitions and integrations like Ardence, the message continues to grow.

You can watch a video demonstration of Citrix Provisioning Server, here.