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The new features offer capacity planning, server provisioning and application management tools.
"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. Included in the new enhancements to XenApp 5 is the ability to manage a single, standardized XenApp server image in a central location, and dynamically provision it to hundreds of XenApp servers across a large, distributed data center environment in minutes. Organizations can now save money on storage and ongoing management while streamlining application management to respond faster to business needs."
New user profile management capabilities in XenApp 5 allow organizations 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 virtualization, previously only available in the Enterprise and Platinum editions of XenApp, is now available in every edition of XenApp 5. XenApp customers no longer need to purchase separate licenses to enable offline access for mobile laptop users. The management toolset included with XenApp Enterprise and Platinum Editions creates realistic simulations that help IT easily benchmark XenApp hosting servers. This new capability eliminates the need for third-party benchmarking software, and ensures organizations are using server capacity in the most efficient way.
The new features will be generally available on March 16, 2009.
The new features offer capacity planning, server provisioning and application management tools.
"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. Included in the new enhancements to XenApp 5 is the ability to manage a single, standardized XenApp server image in a central location, and dynamically provision it to hundreds of XenApp servers across a large, distributed data center environment in minutes. Organizations can now save money on storage and ongoing management while streamlining application management to respond faster to business needs."
New user profile management capabilities in XenApp 5 allow organizations 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 virtualization, previously only available in the Enterprise and Platinum editions of XenApp, is now available in every edition of XenApp 5. XenApp customers no longer need to purchase separate licenses to enable offline access for mobile laptop users. The management toolset included with XenApp Enterprise and Platinum Editions creates realistic simulations that help IT easily benchmark XenApp hosting servers. This new capability eliminates the need for third-party benchmarking software, and ensures organizations are using server capacity in the most efficient way.
The new features will be generally available on March 16, 2009.