Mumbai: In a bid to drive main-stream adoption of desktop virtualization, Citrix has resolved to enhance its focus on virtualization as a technology and will direct all its efforts towards it. The vendor will focus on three key areas including server, desktop, and application virtualization.

Nabeel Youakim, VP-Asia Pacific Products, Partners & Alliances, Citrix mentioned, “Citrix has been in the desktop virtualization and application virtualization space for a long time. However, recently we have entered into the server virtualization market, with an acquisition of a technology called Xen. Hence we will now reposition our company in this area.”

In addition Citrix has also announced an upgrade to Xen Desktop4. The vendor has added a new functionality, through which virtualization can be undertaken in many different ways. These methods include Virtual Desktop infrastructure (VDI), FlexCast , Streaming, Hosted Shared Environment, PC virtualiza-tion and XenClient for virtualizing a desktop.

"Customers will be moving towards Windows 7 and they will have to think of ways to deploy it either at the desktop level or within the data center. With Xen Desktop4, customers will be swapping between different delivery models,” added Youakim.

Talking about the opportunities for partners, Youakim mentioned that this business will give a good opportunity to earn revenues as many customers will go through the refresh cycle. According to a Gartner report, by 2013, Windows 7 is going to be adopted by more than 40 percent of corporates whose corporate desktop will be running with virtual desktop.

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