New Citrix Receiver Lets Chrome Notebook Users Run Windows Business Apps
December 07 2010 - 3:59PM
Business Wire
Today, Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) joined Google on stage at
its live Google Chrome event in San Francisco to preview the new
Citrix Receiver™ for Chrome Notebooks (see today’s related
announcement blog). Available soon as a free app on the Google
Chrome Web Store, Citrix Receiver will allow Google customers to
run their existing Windows business applications directly on the
new web-based Chrome notebooks with a native user experience, fast
performance, and full enterprise security. As a result, Google
customers will be able to enjoy all the benefits of a fast,
lightweight, web-based notebook computer for personal use, and
still have easy, secure access to their Windows-based work
applications, desktops and data at any time (see visuals).
Citrix Receiver also represents a win for corporate IT
departments, allowing them to deliver existing enterprise
applications and desktops as a secure, on-demand service to Chrome
notebook users with no new support requirements – and no compromise
in security or user experience. Because Citrix Receiver supports
all popular security standards, corporate data is safe at all
times. End users also enjoy a rich, high-definition experience for
all apps and desktops, thanks to the built-in Citrix HDX™
technology.
Citrix Receiver is a key part of the Citrix end-to-end virtual
computing strategy, designed to simplify computing for IT, and give
end users more choice and flexibility in how and where they work.
It is available today for a wide variety of end user devices,
including PCs, Macs, laptops, thin clients, tablets and
smartphones.
Pricing and Availability
Citrix Receiver for Chrome Notebooks is scheduled to be
available as a free app from the Google Chrome Web Store in the
first half of 2011. Citrix Receiver works by connecting to the
Citrix XenDesktop® or Citrix XenApp™ servers already running in the
datacenters of most corporate customers. Every day, XenDesktop and
XenApp deliver virtual desktops and applications to 100 million
corporate employees at more than 230,000 enterprises worldwide,
including 99 percent of the Fortune 500.
Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management for
Google
“The web has become an incredibly powerful platform for
innovation, allowing users to do much more online than ever before.
We’re happy to work with Citrix to give Chrome notebook business
users a way to enjoy all the benefits of the web, while still
having the flexibility to access important business applications in
their work environments.”
Gordon Payne, Senior Vice President and General Manager at
Citrix
“The new Chrome notebook breaks new ground in simplifying end
user computing devices. Citrix is pleased to be working with Google
on this exciting new technology and promise it holds for our joint
customers. Together, we can ensure that these new devices are
enterprise-ready, allowing our customers to securely run their
existing corporate applications on their Chrome notebooks.
Extending Citrix Receiver support for Chrome notebooks will provide
virtual computing solutions that simplify computing for IT, and
enable productive, virtual workstyles for users.”
Related Links and Announcements:
- Announcement blog by Sumit Dhawan
- Technical overview blog by Chris
Fleck
- Google event webcast
- Announcement: New Citrix Receiver
Release Gives IT the “Power to Say Yes” to Millions of New
Devices
- Citrix Receiver Cloud demo
environment
Follow us online:
- Citrix Receiver page
- Twitter: @Citrix
- Citrix on Facebook
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of
virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an
on-demand service. Founded in 1989, Citrix combines virtualization,
networking, and cloud computing technologies into a full portfolio
of products that enable virtual workstyles for users and virtual
datacenters for IT. More than 230,000 organizations worldwide rely
on Citrix to help them build simpler and more cost-effective IT
environments. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in more
than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2009 was $1.61 billion.
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