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Citrix Announces Dynamic Desktop Initiative

Tuesday, 24 October 2006 by Michel Roth

Today Citrix announced its new Dynamic Desktop Initiative, an industry collaboration led by Citrix that revolutionizes the way IT delivers desktops with profound benefits to the business. Through this initiative, Citrix and its partners will bring increased power, personalization and flexibility to desktops to support a broad range of tasks performed by office workers � from the very basic to the very complex. For the first time ever, IT can deliver optimal desktops to meet the varying requirements of more office workers by delivering the desktop as a service � exactly as required. This new �dynamic desktop,� can be refreshed and managed from the data center, providing the best TCO and security while improving the performance and flexibility for every office worker�s desktop. Several companies have already joined the Dynamic Desktop Initiave.

Dynamic Desktops
A dynamic desktop is a Windows-based desktop that�s delivered over any network and optimized for office workers� tasks � from simple to complex. The dynamic desktop includes a Windows-based access device, a network connection, a Windows desktop, desktop delivery infrastructure, and desktop experience management tools.

Five characteristics define the dynamic desktop. They are:

� Delivered - not deployed � making them SAFE: secure, available, fast and easy
� Optimized to deliver the right kind of desktop for every office worker
� Portable - works anywhere, extending where and when office workers can work
� Managed as a secure service that�s proactively monitored and measured in real-time
� Productive and empowering by eliminating downtime for upgrades, enabling one- password access, and always instantly on and ready for collaboration

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