Citrix said Wednesday that it can virtualize laptops.
XenClient, the mojo it introduced in May that Intel co-developed, will offer corporate accounts a bare metal hypervisor that’s supposed to make any species of laptop centrally manageable and secure.
Meanwhile, the same kind of widgetry in XenVault will be directed at the BYOC contractor crowd that’s now said to represent 20% of the US workforce.
Imagine their laptops then split into two personalities: a personal one where they can Twitter to their hearts content and a corporate one that has access to on-demand corporate apps and encrypted corporate data both of which the company can kill at will. Baring that eventuality, user changes will be backed up, making them immediately recoverable.
The new online/offline widgetry will be available immediately for download in a free, reportedly full-function XenDesktop Express with online support good for up to 10 users. By the last week of September it’ll be in the company’s XenDesktop Feature Pack 2 and included in the Enterprise and Platinum Editions of XenDesktop at no extra cost.
Citrix claims to have attracted three million XenDesktop seats so far this year, with over a hundred customers virtualizing upwards of a thousand seats. It says half the Fortune 100 are in production with the stuff.
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