Citrix Systems, Inc. has unveiled a set of new improvements to Citrix XenApp, that make delivering Windows applications as an on-demand service easier and more cost-efficient for IT.
“Citrix understands the challenges that our customers face today with shrinking budgets and the pressures of ‘doing more with less,’ and we are committed to helping businesses meet these challenges using proven technology that impacts the bottom line,” said Mick Hollison, vice president of XenApp product marketing at Citrix Systems. “As a core component of the Citrix Delivery Center product family, XenApp is now even more valuable in helping organisations manage and deliver applications using fewer resources by adding hundreds of dollars in value on top of what they already get with XenApp for no additional cost.”
Included in the new enhancements to XenApp 5 is the ability to manage a single, standardised XenApp server image in a central location, and dynamically provision it to hundreds of XenApp servers across a large, distributed datacenter environment in minutes. New user profile management capabilities in XenApp 5 allow organisations to maintain and consolidate a user’s profile, eliminating common profile reconciliation problems such as write/overwrite issues when accessing user settings on different devices. Additionally, XenApp 5 users will have a faster, seamless log-on experience with personal preferences that are always present.
Local application virtualisation, previously only available in the Enterprise and Platinum editions of XenApp, is now available in every edition of XenApp 5. The management toolset included with XenApp Enterprise and Platinum Editions eliminates the need for third-party benchmarking software, and ensures organisations are using server capacity in the most efficient way.