Virtual solution package

Citrix Systems says it will develop the industry's first applications and desktop delivery solutions optimised for Intel Core 2 desktops and Centrino 2 laptops with Intel vPro technology.

Under an agreement with Intel, the company plans to produce a new class of virtualisation solutions that optimises the delivery of applications and desktops to millions of Intel Core 2 and Centrino 2 processor-based devices, reducing the cost of desktop management.

The first-of-its-kind, hypervisor-based virtualisation solutions will bring both mobile and office users the benefits of centralised desktop virtualisation with a rich, personalised PC environment.

As a result, mobile and office workers will be able to take advantage of enterprise-scale virtualisation without sacrificing security, manageability, ease of use, performance or mobility.

At the heart of the new solutions will be a bare-metal Xen-based desktop hypervisor optimised for Intel Virtualisation technology and other features of Intel vPro technology.

This hypervisor, which will be made available to PC manufacturers and enterprises worldwide, will enable IT professionals, for the first time, to dynamically stream a centrally managed corporate desktop and all related applications directly into a secure, isolated client-based virtual machine.

This technology, available later this year, will be in am upcoming solution from the company code-named 'Project Independence'.