Citrix loads on the announcements

Citrix acquires Kaviza

• Citrix is expanding desktop virtualisation to the SMB market through the strategic acquisition of Kaviza.
• Kaviza sells VDI-in-a-box solutions. The acquisition means Citrix now has an SMB desktop virtualisation product that doesn’t require storage or the usual desktop virtualisation brokers.

XenClient 2 and XenClient XT 

• Citrix officially unveiled Citrix XenClient 2, the second generation of its bare-metal client hypervisor developed in collaboration with Intel, which allows centrally managed virtual desktops to run directly on corporate laptops, even when disconnected from the network.
• The new version of XenClient adds extensive new ease-of-use and scalability features, and will be certified to run on an estimated 45 million PCs and laptops.
• Citrix also launched XenClient XT, a new standalone product to deliver advanced levels of security, isolation and performance for customers with the most extreme client computing requirements.

"Project Olympus"

• Citrix announced "Project Olympus,” a new cloud infrastructure product based on the popular OpenStack project.
• By utilising OpenStack, Project Olympus inherits the collective experience and innovation of hundreds of experienced open source cloud developers to help customers build real infrastructure-as-a-service clouds that are scalable, efficient and open-by-design.

Citrix has also made a number of other announcements:

• NetScaler Cloud Bridge for enterprise data centers.
• HDX tech for multimedia and cloud.
• Citrix unveils end-to-end cloud networking lineup.
• New NetScaler cloud gateway orchestrates delivery of SaaS, web and Windows apps 
• Citrix unveils "personal cloud" vision 

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