Citrix has officially kicked off Citrix Summit 2017 in Anaheim, California with several new announcements:
- New transition/trade-up offers will be available for those who want to transition to Citrix Cloud as-a-service
- XenDesktop Essentials was released to help with simplified deployment of Windows 10 Desktops on Microsoft Azure cloud
- XenApp Essentials was also released to enable customers to deploy business apps directly from Azure
- The Citrix Ready HCI Workspace Appliance Program is Citrix’s newest Citrix Ready Program and combines the advantages of Citrix Cloud with hyperconverged infrastructure.
- The Smart Tools family expands with the introduction of Smart Check, Smart Scale and other pre-configured packages that simplify cloud deployments
- Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway has been integrated with Microsoft Intune to enable greater security and flexibility for customers
You can find out more about these announcements here. On top of those announcements, Citrix announced the acquisition of Unidesk – the inventor of the Windows application packaging and management technology known as layering.
Application layering has emerged as the best way to separate apps from the underlying operating system, so they can be managed once and delivered from any end user computing solution to any device.
Unidesk is a privately-held company that makes it possible for IT organizations to manage applications once across virtual desktops, shared hosted desktops, and published applications with unequaled packaging simplicity and full application compatibility. You can find out more about this announcement here.