Citrix announces releases of XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6

Ø  XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 are designed to be deployed in the cloud, on-premise and in hybrid environments.

Ø  The new releases provide new bringing back features such as application pre-launch, session linger and anonymous logon.

Ø  The releases also provide new enhancements to the audio, video and graphics experience.  New high-performance graphics acceleration using GPUs provide high quality DirectX/2D rendering, an important requirement for engineers and designers.

Ø  Support for Unified Communications such as Lync Server 2013 and generic redirection of the latest USB 3.0 peripherals like webcams, headsets and Lync phones for Windows devices are perfect for contact center agents, contractors and remote workers.

Ø  Citrix is also releasing a new update to the HDX Mobile SDK. Which helps to re-architect apps for mobile operating systems, developers can customize their Windows applications to be mobile-aware and provide features that enable GPS location awareness, picture and video capture, and screen rotation re-factoring.

Ø  New enhancements to Citrix provisioning services, a widely deployed single image management feature of XenApp and XenDesktop uses commodity servers and RAM to drop the IOPS load on storage by 99 percent. This solves the storage throughput performance problem without deploying SSDs and high-end storage arrays.

Ø  XenApp and XenDesktop provide the only application and desktop virtualization solution available that meets both Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance and Common Criteria evaluation requirements.

Ø  Security enhancements also have been made to enable granular policies over clipboard content filtering and directional control. This feature, inspired by customer requirements in the banking industry to help prevent credit card data hacking, gives IT control over whether end users can copy into – or out of – their virtual workspace.

Ø  The new Citrix Connector 7.5 for System Center Configuration Manager—developed in close partnership with Microsoft—enables administrators to use Configuration Manager to define and manage user access to virtual applications and desktops powered by Citrix.

Ø  Several features of the latest version seamlessly integrate with XenApp 6.5, including the new provisioning services, updates to Citrix Receiver, StoreFront and HDX, AppDNA, System Center Connector, monitoring consoles and more.

Ø  XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 will be available in September 2014.