AppSense and App-DNA have announced a strategic partnership to provide organizations with a comprehensive, user-centric desktop transformation program. The partnership greatly accelerates the migration of Windows-based applications onto new platforms such as Windows 7, virtual desktop computing and remote desktop services.

Citrix Systems today announced a new version of its Citrix XenDesktop product line, which offers increase device support and business personalization. The new XenDesktop 5.5 adds the "Personal vDisk" technology acquired earlier this month from RingCube to all editions of XenDesktop, making it far easier for customers to deploy highly personalized virtual desktops at a substantially lower cost.

Citrix Systems has announced it has closed the acquisition of RingCube, a leader in user personalization technology for virtual desktops. The innovative technology from RingCube accelerates virtual desktop adoption by eliminating the tradeoff between user personalization and centralized IT management. When combined with a desktop virtualization product like Citrix XenDesktop, RingCube makes it easier for IT to give each user a personalized virtual desktop, dramatically reduces the cost of storage, and simplifies the move from physical to virtual desktops.

Leostream announced that its connection broker has been verified as Citrix Ready by Citrix Systems for XenServer 5.6. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix. The Leostream Connection Broker is the industry's most widely deployed vendor-independent connection broker, integrating the complex array of clients, back-end systems and protocols required for successful enterprise virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments.

Citrix Systems announced today that its popular Citrix NetScaler VPX virtual appliance will add extensive support for business-critical Microsoft datacenter and infrastructure solutions, including Microsoft(R) Hyper-V(TM), Microsoft System Center and key Microsoft enterprise applications like SharePoint 2010 and Exchange Server 2010. As a result, Microsoft datacenter administrators will now be able to apply all the same NetScaler acceleration, load balancing and security features that power many of the world's largest datacenters, as a native Hyper-V workload from directly within System Center -- with no networking knowledge or configuration required.

HP announced today at Citrix Synergy 2010 that they have expanded their client virtualization offerings for businesses to help reduce the costs and complexity of client virtualization while improving the user experience. The new offerings include: a)The HP 4320t Mobile Thin Client is designed to meet the security and reliability needs of remote and mobile workers. b)HP's desk-based thin client line now features expanded multimedia capabilities.

5i a UK supplier of unified communications announced the availability of BeAnywhere, a software application that integrates Citrix and Sun Ray based virtual desktop environments with Cisco’s Collaboration product set. Sun Ray is Oracle VDI solution for companies that are looking for thin client solutions. The Sun Rays offers a lower footprint than a standard desktop with power consumption as low as 4 watt.

Citrix Systems has widened its choice of security applications for cloud and web solutions by adding five new appliances to the Citrix NetScaler Applications firewall range.  With the explosion in web 2.0 services and more businesses moving some of their data and operations out into the cloud Citrix said the new appliances were designed to bring a new level of security to public and private clouds and web applications.  The appliances were built on the Citrix NetScaler MPX hardware platform, which is user throughout the world to offer web-security, application acceleration and loa

Citrix and Novell have agreed to collaborate on Linux Virtualization platform through the virtualization compatibility program from Novell.  Novell has certified Citrix Xenserver as a host platform for it SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.  The partnership means that customers who want to run SUSE Linux as a guest on XenServer can do so with the assurance that they will get support from both Novell and Citrix. Both companies said the collaboration will expand the choice for customers through increase virtualization interoperability.

Wyse last month released the latest version of its Wyse TCX suite, version 4.0.  This new version according to Wyse is more comprehensive in that it seamlessly work with VMware View, Microsoft Terminal services, Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix XenApp.  TCX suite also features a Collaborative Processing Architecture (CPA) an intelligent architecture which divides the workload between the client and the server.