Intel and Citrix are planning to bring desktop virtualization technologies to a wider audience in an effort to make it easier to run and manage virtual machines within a corporation.
Intel and Citrix Systems are looking to combine their virtualization and hardware management technologies into one overall offering that will make it easier to secure and manage multiple virtual machines running within one corporate client.
Under this agreement Intel and Citrix plans to produce a new class of virtualization solutions that optimize the delivery of applications and desktops to millions of Intel Core2 and Centrino 2 processor-based devices, dramatically reducing the cost of desktop management. The hypervisor-based virtualization solution should bring both mobile and office users the benefits of centralized desktop virtualization with a rich, personalized PC environment. As a result, mobile and office workers will be able to take advantage of enterprise-scale virtualization without sacrificing security, manageability, ease-of-use, performance or mobility.
“This innovative approach from Citrix and Intel has the potential to swing the pendulum toward desktop virtualization alternatives and disrupt a traditional desktop management industry that is costing enterprises billions of dollars a year today,” said Mark Bowker, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). ”By serving as a transparent delivery platform, this approach has the potential to positively transform the corporate desktop ownership equation and improve how enterprise IT manages the delivery of applications and desktops to their users.”
This new client hypervisor, which will be made available to PC manufacturers and enterprises worldwide, will enable IT professionals to dynamically stream a centrally managed corporate desktop, and all related applications, directly into a secure, isolated client-based virtual machine. This new technology will be productized in an upcoming solution from Citrix code-named “Project Independence.” By enabling devices, desktops, applications and people to operate more independently, but with all the benefits of centralized management, Project Independence will bring a new level of cost savings and IT agility to businesses worldwide.
The announcement by Citrix and Intel also looks to counter what VMware plans to offer with its vClient VMware View products.
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This post was written by admin on January 21, 2009
