Thin client computing supplier Citrix has unveiled two
new developments designed to make it easier for organisations to
deliver applications to users.
Citrix released details of Project Tarpon and Edgesight products
at its iForum user conference in Edinburgh earlier this month.
The company announced that users could try out a limited beta of
its Tarpon product. Tarpon aims to help provide "software as a
service" to desktops by reducing the time it takes to deliver
applications and cutting the number of software licences needed to
support staff.
Tarpon allows a company to profile which applications are needed
across the organisation, and then publicise them on the company
network so that end-users can select them manually.
The required applications can then be streamed to groups of
desktops on request, instead of all end-users in the organisation
receiving large numbers of applications, many of which subsequently
sit unused on their machines.
Citrix chief executive Mark Templeton told iForum that the use
of the web was driving enterprise IT and that companies had to
change their mindset to deliver technology across the
enterprise.
He said that IT departments had to give employees choice over
which applications they used, and make them simple to use.
Tarpon comes hard on the heels of Citrix Netscaler - technology
bought in by the company last year to give users a faster and safer
way to deliver applications to multiple devices.
In another development, Citrix announced the availability of
Edgesight, an "application visibility" tool that allows IT
departments to view the end-user experience of application
performance.
Bank Morgan Stanley already uses Edgesight for application
usage metrics, data compliance, security auditing and capacity
planning.
Citrix vice-president Lou Shipley said Edgesight could pinpoint
unauthorised applications that did not work properly with others,
faults in authorised applications, and undesirable data traffic,
such as film clips from unauthorised websites, being transported
over the network.
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