Citrix Extends Desktop Virtualization Leadership with Acquisition of RingCube
August 10 2011 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
Citrix Systems (NASDAQ:CTXS) today announced it has closed the
acquisition of RingCube, a leader in user personalization
technology for virtual desktops. The innovative technology from
RingCube accelerates virtual desktop adoption by eliminating the
tradeoff between user personalization and centralized IT
management. When combined with a desktop virtualization product
like Citrix XenDesktop®, RingCube makes it easier for IT to give
each user a personalized virtual desktop, dramatically reduces the
cost of storage, and simplifies the move from physical to virtual
desktops. With the acquisition of RingCube, Citrix further
solidifies its leadership position in desktop virtualization,
helping enterprise customers transform traditional desktop
management into a secure, flexible “private desktop cloud” service.
The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The Great VDI Tradeoff
Enterprise customers have already begun moving to desktop
virtualization. As the industry transitions from the PC Era to the
Cloud Era, desktop virtualization products like Citrix XenDesktop
have given millions of users around the world the freedom to access
their corporate desktops, apps and data from any device, in any
location. Desktop virtualization also provides significant benefits
to IT, allowing them to host user desktops and apps securely in the
datacenter and deliver them as a far more cost-effective
centralized service.
In the past, customers using the popular VDI method of
virtualization have been forced to choose between two different
deployment models. Most customers today choose the “dedicated VDI”
model. In this approach, IT hosts a unique, fully assembled desktop
for each user in the datacenter, and lets them connect to it
remotely from any device. This model gives IT all the benefits of
central management while allowing end users a high level of
personalization. While this approach is superior to traditional
desktop management, storing thousands of unique, fully assembled
desktop images in the datacenter can be expensive to maintain.
As a result, some customers opt for the more efficient “pooled
VDI” model, which stores only a single image of the Windows OS and
each app in the datacenter, and then dynamically assembles each
virtual desktop at runtime as users need them. While the pooled
approach is far less expensive, the fact that each user gets an
identical desktop makes it impractical for many types of
employees.
RingCube Eliminates the VDI Tradeoff
RingCube technology breaks down this barrier to enterprise-wide
VDI adoption by combining all the benefits of dedicated and pooled
desktops, with none of the limitations. It does this by creating a
“personal vDisk” for each employee that contains only the apps,
data and settings that are unique to that user. All the images that
each user has in common – including the Windows OS and all common
corporate apps – are stored one time in the datacenter. As a
result, each user gets their own unique personal desktop each time
they log in, while IT gets all the cost advantages of centrally
managing a single instance of Windows and each corporate
application for all users. Using RingCube technology with
XenDesktop can significantly reduce storage costs versus standard
dedicated VDI desktops.
RingCube also makes it easier for customers to make the move
from physical to virtual desktops. By isolating all user-specific
apps and settings in personal vDisks, IT can be certain that each
user’s new VDI desktop will behave exactly the same as their
previous physical desktop, making the move entirely transparent to
users. This also simplifies migration for desktop administrators by
ensuring that their existing tools for managing applications and
users continue to work seamlessly.
As an added benefit, isolating each user’s unique apps and
settings also gives IT the option of letting users self-install
apps into their own personal vDisks.
The RingCube product line is shipping today with full support
for Citrix XenDesktop 5. Additionally, Citrix will continue to
support existing customers.
Quote
Bob Schultz, Group Vice President and General Manager,
Enterprise Desktops and Applications at Citrix
“The acquisition of RingCube underscores our chief goal of
enabling users to access their desktops and applications on any
device, and making virtual desktops simple and affordable for IT.
As customers take on enterprise-wide desktop transformation
initiatives, Citrix is in the best position to provide a broad
range of technology delivering multiple types of virtual desktops
that satisfy every user in the enterprise. RingCube technology adds
a significant capability to provide users and IT flexible, personal
VDI desktops at a much lower cost.”
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Citrix to create better ways for people, IT and business to work
through virtual meetings, desktops and datacenters. Citrix
virtualization, networking and cloud solutions deliver over 100
million corporate desktops and touch 75 percent of Internet users
each day. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in 100
countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was $1.87 billion.
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