Citrix has unveiled a new release of the Citrix XenDesktop product.
According the company, XenDesktop brings hybrid cloud provisioning to enterprise desktop virtualisation deployments, allowing organisations to use Amazon Web Services or any Citrix CloudPlatform powered by Apache CloudStack cloud to flex, grow or transform their virtual desktop infrastructure.
"The rapidly changing business environment, combined with the requirements of mobilising workers, leaves customers looking for more flexible IT infrastructures to achieve their business goals," says group VP and GM of desktops and apps at Citrix, Rakesh Narasimhan.
"The new release of XenDesktop gives these customers the only unified architecture for app and desktop delivery, as well as the power of leveraging hybrid or public cloud infrastructure to optimise data centre operations, enabling them to create a more flexible, mobile enterprise."
He also points out that by leveraging the elasticity and economics of the world's largest clouds, organisations can add new capacity for seasonal or unplanned needs without incurring capital expenditures, giving them the flexibility and resources for the mobile enterprise.
"XenDesktop is built on the same systems management architecture as Citrix XenApp, which provides a single console from which customers can deliver both virtual apps and desktops," he adds.
Narasimhan highlights that it also supports an "any cloud" strategy that does not lock customers into a proprietary cloud with limited geographical distribution, but instead allows them to leverage any of the large public clouds on the market.
Narasimhan points out that the new mobile world is changing where, when and how people work, and it is forcing IT to find new ways of supporting the mobile enterprise.
"The ability to leverage public cloud resources to support rapidly changing business needs, such as scaling for seasonal workers and optimisng their datacentre operations while carefully managing capex, is becoming increasingly attractive and necessary," he concludes.
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