Working to boost the versatility and speed of virtual desktops, Citrix Systems has updated its XenDesktop software to permit users to individualize their backgrounds, and offer the ability to open their desktops above wide area meshwork, the company annunciated Wednesday.

"There are a more of nuances you have to operate via when you give somebody a individual desktop, and with this release, we are rescuing that at no addtional charge," said John Fanelli, Citrix's vice president for initiative desktops and apps.

XenDesktop is Citrix's server software for transfering virtual desktops above a meshwork to personal users. The fresh release, Citrix XenDesktop 5.5, has over 150 latest characteristics and advances. "This is the biggest release of XenDesktop in Citrix's history," Fanelli boasted.

This edition is the beginning to incorporate the desktop individualize tech from Citrix's acquisition of RingCube earlier this month. This software permits users to customize their own individualize desktops, and permits organizations to embed departmental apps on these desktops. Earlier edition of this software could only serve up generic desktops, and any customizations made to them would not be preserved after they were shut down.

The individualize technology, now stigmatized "Personal vDisk" will be present as a distinguish download, and can be configured from among a menu chocie on the XenDesktop console, Fanelli said.

This is also the for the first time edition of XenDesktop that Citrix is advocating for apply over WANs. Former editions were more matched to transfer desktops above LANs (local area networks), but desktop operation established too sluggish to try to run across longer distances. Citrix has ameliorated its streaming protocol, HDX (High Definition User Experience), so that long-range streaming is now potential, Fanelli said. It can prioritize meshwork traffic based on users, or the kind of traffic that is being carried.


The functioning betterment will not permit organizations to matter virtual desktops to workers at branch offices or those operating at home, Fanelli said.

Performance has also been quickened in a number of other ways as good. For example, virtual desktops can now stream Flash message topically, instead than having it redirected via the desktop server. It now can affirm streaming voice and video traffic. It also affirm Windows 7 Aero port. Users can also print to local printers apply software on the customer, which will speed printing speeds sixfold.

Along with this XenDesktop release, Citrix has also updated the server client, Citrix Receiver. The guest program now has customized ports for each running system. The desktop on an Android-founded tablet will have a unlike appear and feel from a Microsoft Windows desktop, for example.