The Future is NOW

Raymar has the Vision to Transform Desktop Computing with Project Independence

A Combination of Local Virtualization and Centralized Image Management Will Change the Face of Desktop Computing in Five Important Ways

The face of desktop computing will change fundamentally over the next few years. Enterprises have long struggled to meet user demands for flexible com-puting environments while controlling costs, improving data security, ensuring business continuity, and simplifying desktop management. Achieving these goals requires the right technology as well as a shift in how IT and the user views desktop computing.

Project Independence is a strategic product initiative with partners like Intel, focused on local virtual desktops. We are working together to deliver on our combined vision for the future of desktop computing.

This new virtualization solution will extend the benefits of hosted desktop virtualization to millions of mobile workers with the introduction of a new client-side bare metal hypervisor that runs directly on each end user's laptop or PC. This together with an innovative backend desktop management solution for creating, delivering, and updating corporate desktop computing environments will transform the way corporate desktops are delivered and managed, giving IT all the security, simplicity and cost savings of centralized management, with an unprecedented level of performance, personalization and freedom for end users.

Here are our predictions for how desktop computing will change:

Prediction #1 Your company will no longer own your laptop (go ahead, buy that cool new computer).

Prediction #2 Your company will spend more on coffee and office supplies than it does on desktop management.

Prediction #3 You will access your corporate desktop from whatever device is most convenient at the time (just like you do with e-mail today).

Prediction #4 You will switch back and forth between work and personal desktops on the same device, without thinking twice.

Prediction #5 You will never complain about your PC being too slow again.

Today we unveil the next phase of our vision and roadmap to radically change the economics of desktop computing. This strategy builds on last year's debut of Citrix XenDesktop, a market-leading enterprise virtualization solution that enables IT to significantly reduce costs by delivering server-based, hosted virtual desktops to office workers as a centrally-managed service. Today's announcement enhances those benefits and extends them to millions of mobile workers with the introduction of a new client-side hypervisor that runs directly on each end user's PC or laptop computer. This new hypervisor, being developed in collaboration with Intel Corporation, will be productized in an upcoming solution from Citrix code-named 'Project Independence'. Combined with XenDesktop and the rest of the Citrix Delivery Center product family, Project Independence will transform the way corporate desktops are delivered and managed, giving IT all the security, simplicity and cost savings of centralized management, with an unprecedented level of performance, personalization and freedom for end users.