XenDesktop 3 incorporates several new Citrix HDX¢â technologies, giving virtual desktop users a richer high-definition experience with enhanced support for multimedia and peripherals. XenDesktop 3 also dramatically improves scalability, hosting twice as many virtual desktops per server as previous versions. With version 3, XenDesktop becomes the first product on the market to deliver Microsoft® Windows® desktops from a common set of centrally managed images that can be run either in the datacenter (hosted) or directly on a PC or thin client device (local). This new capability gives IT organizations far more flexibility, reducing desktop management costs by making efficient use of distributed processing power across both servers and endpoint devices.
XenDesktop reduces desktop TCO up to 40 percent and improves data security while ensuring business continuity by centralizing desktop lifecycle management in the datacenter and allowing either local or remote desktop access from anywhere. It delivers a high definition user experience over any connection including high latency wide area networks. Its open architecture offers choice and flexibility of virtualization platform and endpoints. For IT, desktop management is simplified by using a single image to deliver personalized desktops to users anywhere. Service levels can be managed easily with built-in desktop performance monitoring.
Check out the videos below to see the new Desktop Streaming and HDX capabilities of XenDesktop 3 in action!