Citrix completes acquisition of Ardence
Citrix Systems has completed the acquisition of Ardence. Ardence is a Disk Streaming technology that allows one or more computers to PXE boot to a single hard disk image. The server or servers then run their entire operating system from this network hard disk. Form a more in-depth look at Ardence, check out Brian Madden’s white paper about Ardence.
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Jason Conger Blog » Blog Archive » Ardence OS Streaming video Says:
January 14th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
[…] As you may know by now, Citrix Systems recently completed the acquisition of Ardence. Now, Matthew Brasher has created an amusing yet interesting and informative video demonstration of Ardence in action. This video shows Ardence instantly re-provisioning XP, Vista, and Linux over 150-250 Dell PCs. […]
Jason Conger Blog » Blog Archive » Citrix Presentation Server and Ardence OS Streaming Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 9:37 am
[…] Back in January of this year, Citrix purchased a company named Ardence. In a nutshell, Ardence is an OS “streaming” technology that allows you to run multiple physical servers from a single virtual disk (vDisk) stored on the network. A more detailed analysis can be found on Brian Madden’s website. To see this technology in action, check out this Ardence OS streaming video. […]
Jason Conger Blog » Blog Archive » Citrix starts to market Ardence Says:
October 12th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
[…] Back in January 2007 Citrix acquired Ardence, a disk streaming technology. A lot of people wondered how Citrix would position this new acquired technolgy. Those questions have now been answered because Citrix recently announced the release of the new Citrix Provisioning Server solution at the Gartner IT Expo in Orlando, Fla. Citrix Provisioning Server is based on “…the innovative OS-streaming technology acquired in its January purchase of Ardence, Inc., Provisioning Server enables IT organizations to dynamically stream datacenter and desktop operating systems and workloads to both virtual and physical machines from a central location. The new solution enables more agile and cost-effective delivery of applications and desktops, and provides an ideal complement to the company’s recently announced acquisition of virtual infrastructure vendor XenSource.” […]