Tuesday, 29 April 2008

HP to Support Citrix XenDesktop

Hewlett Packard (HP) today said that it will integrate Citrix XenDestop across its industry standard ProLiant server and HP Compaq thin client product lines come May.

HP said it is delivering integrated access to XenDesktop deployments to provide customers with safe, affordable, easy-to-deploy thin clients that enhance the user experience and reduce IT costs through simplified lifecycle management.
Citrix XenDesktop is a desktop delivery solution that allows companies to virtualize Microsoft Windows desktops in the data center and deliver them on demand to office workers in any location.

Using XenDesktop can dramatically simplify desktop management, enabling customers to provision new users far more quickly, improve data security and save up to 40% over the cost of installing and managing desktops on traditional PCs.

“HP offers a broad range of desktop solutions that make virtualization a reality for a very wide range of worker and IT infrastructure types,” said Dennis Mark, vice president and general manager, Commercial Systems Unit, Personal Systems Group, HP Asia Pacific and Japan.

“The combination of HP virtualization and Citrix’s XenDesktop will provide IT departments with an excellent solution for simple and secure management of their desktop base while providing users an optimal computing experience.”

HP said the addition of XenDesktop support allows an even more flexible and streamlined architecture for users working from remote locations, and it ensures high-speed application delivery across a virtual infrastructure.

This support also builds on HP’s recent introduction of HP ProLiant iVirtualization powered by Citrix XenServer. This combination allows HP customers to easily take advantage of Citrix’s full application and desktop delivery solutions to help make their IT infrastructures more flexible and dynamic from the desktop to the data center.

“Support for Citrix XenDesktop across HP’s server and thin client products further extends the broad ecosystem of products and solutions that will accelerate the adoption of on-demand delivery to users anywhere,” said Raj Dhingra, group vice president and general manager, Desktop Delivery Group, Citrix Systems.