Also at the conference, Citrix released new updates to Citrix Receiver, its universal software client for delivering desktop images, data and corporate applications to a variety of end user devices in the modern, widely distributed mobile IT environment. Citrix says Receiver now supports 1,000 different PC and Mac computers, 149 different smartphones, 37 tablet models and 10 different types of thin client desktops. Here, Citrix is addressing the widely recognized trend called the consumerization of IT, in which workers bring their personal devices to work and the IT departments have to find ways to accommodate them.
Citrix also announced new features for its GoToMeeting line of collaboration tools for online meetings. It announced the open public beta of GoToMeeting with HD Faces, which delivers high-definition audio and video for telepresence-like video conference via Xen Desktop.
This solution is also targeted at SMBs, said Paul Burrin, a Citrix VP, while briefing reporters. “[Customers say,] ‘We want telepresence, we think it’s a fantastic capability, but we can’t afford these high-end systems,'” said Burrin.
Citrix also offered a technology preview of an upgrade to its Citrix HDX technology for delivering improved performance for rich media delivered in a VDI environment, including 3-D graphics, and improved audio and video in its XenDesktop and XenApp product lines, including improved multitasking.
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