Citrix Systems added a measure of versatility to its virtual desktop
product offering Aug. 10 with the acquisition of Mountain View,
Calif.-based RingCube, which makes user personalization software for
VDI systems.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
RingCube’s product, vDesk, is a high-performance enterprise workspace
virtualization package that makes more efficient the rollout of VDI
deployments across an organization. It controls various levels of
security and file access and allows credentialed employees to use
various types of mobile devices to access a VDI system.
Desktop virtualization can provide significant benefits to an
enterprise, allowing IT to host user desktops and apps securely in the
data center -- rather than as a standard client-server model -- and
deliver them as a more cost-effective centralized service.
Virtual desktop implementations often need degrees of personalization
when deployed at various levels of an enterprise's staff and with
part-time and contract employees, who require different levels of
security and file access. vDesk enables organizations to provide VDI to
all employees in a quick, efficient manner.
RingCube's differentiator from other VI providers is that it creates a
so-called "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 operating system (usually
Windows) and all common corporate apps -- are stored one time in the
data center.
As a result, each user gets his/her own unique personal desktop each
time they log in, while IT gets all the cost advantages of centrally
managing a single instance of the operating system and each corporate
application for all users.
Using RingCube technology with Citrix's XenDesktop can significantly
reduce storage costs versus standard dedicated VDI desktops, Citrix
Group Vice President and General Manager Bob Schultz said.
"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," said Schultz.
"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 adds a significant capability to
provide users and IT flexible, personal VDI desktops at a much lower
cost."
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