Ensuring secure desktop computing is a top objective for IT professionals. This demonstration by Peter Blum highlights how Citrix XenClient allows users to securely access business applications, even when using their desktops for personal use.
In this demo Peter Blum demonstrates how Citrix XenClient local desktop virtualization makes it possible to run both business and personal environments on a single laptop while maintaining strict isolation between them for maximum security. Part 3 of a multi-part series.
In this demo segment Peter Blum shows the power of local desktop virtualization with Citrix XenClient by displaying multiple graphics intensive workloads running locally on a single laptop system, each in their own virtual desktop. Part 2 of a multi-part series.
This overview segment introduces the concepts and use cases of Citrix XenClient, the upcoming local desktop virtualization platform from Citrix. Part 1 of a mult-part series.
To keep up to speed on what's happening with the Citrix XenClient Type-1 bare metal client hypervisor, check out Citrix XenClient Central here
Also, be sure to check out the infamous Douglas Brown's podcast where he interviews Peter Blum, Director Product Management and Marketing for Citrix XenClient at Citrix and Thomas James, Business Development Manager in the Digital Office Platform Division at Intel. Douglas, Peter, and Thomas discuss the upcoming Citrix XenClient client-side hypervisor.
Here is a background check on the Citrix XenClient "project"
In January 2009, Citrix announced a formal agreement to develop a Xen-base, Type-1 bare metal client hypervisor technology in conjunction with Intel. The results of the joint collaboration will be the delivery of Citrix XenClient™, a local desktop virtualization platform providing new levels of security, management, and user flexibility for enterprise desktops. Citrix XenClient will be optimized for Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT), Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT), and other features of Intel vPro™ technology. Citrix is integrating these technologies into their local desktop virtualization platform, providing customers the benefit of desktop virtualization solutions leveraging the virtualization and management capabilities of vPro-based desktop and laptop PCs.
XenClient will deliver key benefits to mobile/offline users including:
Extend the benefits of hosted virtual desktops to remote, mobile, and offline users
Allow running isolated business and personal desktops on the same device
Provide a high definition user experience with bare-metal virtualization performance
Allow IT to lockdown business desktops to reduce desktop management TCO
Simplify laptop provisioning and reduce the burden of managing multiple OS images
Provide a secure mobile computing platform with backup, policy control, and remote kill
Provide faster recovery from field laptop failures or loss/theft
Citrix has developed a showcase for XenClient within the Citrix Community. The XenClient Underground features a variety of information, including videos, demonstrations, discussions, beta information and more.
