Citrix Systems Inc.’s strategic focus on the desktop virtualization market became evident last week when the company announced its latest version of XenDesktop, which expands virtualization capabilities to laptops.
The first version of XenDesktop was released in November 2009. The XenDesktop 4 Feature Pack 2, scheduled for release in September, includes the new XenClient bare-metal hypervisor and XenVault encryption software.
XenDesktop 4 allows IT departments to broadcast the Windows desktop and Windows applications as a service to any device, said Wes Wasson, senior vice-president and chief marketing officer at Citrix, in a visit to IT World Canada.
Wasson showed us how this works in a demo of Citrix’s desktop virtualization solution on his iPad. In the interview below, Wasson runs Citrix Receiver to use Auto Desk 2.0 (a Windows application) and explains why desktop virtualization makes life easier for IT departments.
