Citrix has completed its acquisition of Numecent, the company behind Cloudpaging and Cloudpager technologies for Windows application management. Cloudpaging packages Windows applications into isolated containers that can be streamed to endpoints without traditional installation, whilst Cloudpager provides cloud-based management across physical and virtual Windows environments. The acquisition expands Citrix DaaS capabilities for application delivery. The technology addresses common enterprise IT challenges including bloated desktop images, application conflicts, and lengthy ransomware recovery times. Citrix customers will benefit from lower desktop management costs, faster application recovery after incidents, reduced application conflicts, and centralised management across Windows environments. The acquisition builds on an integration launched in April that enabled administrators to publish Cloudpaging containers through Citrix workflows. Citrix plans to further integrate both products into its platform whilst maintaining support for physical Windows desktops outside DaaS environments.

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Citrix acquires Numecent to simplify and broaden application management and delivery capabilities across Windows environments. Citrix announced it has completed the acquisition of Numecent, the company behind two complementary products: Cloudpaging, a patented technology that packages Windows applications into isolated application containers independent of the underlying operating system, and Cloudpager, a cloud management console that provisions, updates, rolls back, removes and meters applications across physical and virtual Windows endpoints. The acquisition expands Citrix DaaS capabilities for cloud-based application delivery across Windows environments, helping reduce the complexity and cost of traditional app packaging and image management. Unlike solutions tied to virtual desktops, Numecent's technology extends application delivery across physical and virtual Windows environments, helping organizations simplify application management at enterprise scale. Numecent modernizes enterprise application delivery Enterprise IT teams managing physical and virtual Windows environments face a persistent set of challenges: bloated desktop images that take weeks to update, application conflicts that break production environments and ransomware incidents that can take weeks to recover from. Numecent's technology is designed to address all three. Cloudpaging packages Windows applications into isolated containers and streams them to Windows endpoints on demand, without traditional installation or changes to the base image. Applications behave as if natively installed. Cloudpager provides cloud-based management to assign applications to users and devices, push updates, roll back releases, recall licenses and meter usage across Windows endpoints from one console. This acquisition builds upon the two companies' work to integrate the Cloudpager with Citrix DaaS, following an integration launched in April enabling administrators to natively publish and manage Cloudpaging application containers through familiar Citrix workflows. What this means for Citrix customers With the acquisition, Citrix customers will benefit from: · Lower desktop-management costs: Separating applications from the image can reduce the size and number of images IT maintains and shorten application update cycles. · Rapid application recovery: After ransomware or a site failure, IT can rebuild a clean environment and quickly repopulate applications from the cloud, cutting Recovery Time Objectives and the revenue loss and regulatory exposure of an extended outage. · Reduced application conflicts: Legacy and modern applications can run side by side, reducing application conflicts and associated troubleshooting. · Less application repackaging: A single container can provide greater application compatibility across operating system versions and physical and virtual Windows environments, reducing the need for repackaging. · Lower administrative overhead and greater control and visibility into software usage: IT can manage applications across virtual and physical Windows environments from one console and meter software usage and recall unused licenses. · Enable DevOps automation workflows: IT and DevOps teams can leverage containerization to help automate application packaging and control deployment to improve speed and consistency, reduce manual steps and support a more secure environment. "Enterprise customers have told us for years that application management is one of the most painful parts of running a Windows environment," said Shawn Bass, senior vice president and general manager of Citrix DaaS. "Numecent has solved this in a genuinely elegant way. By bringing Cloudpaging and Cloudpager into Citrix, we can make this capability native to every DaaS and physical desktop deployment so IT teams get back the time they spend wrestling with images and app conflicts." "Joining Citrix accelerates everything we set out to do," said Arthur Hitomi, CEO of Numecent. "Our Cloudpaging technology was built for exactly the kind of complex, high-scale environments Citrix serves. Together, we can bring app-centric resilience to enterprise desktops worldwide." Citrix plans to further integrate Cloudpaging and Cloudpager into the Citrix platform while continuing support for physical Windows desktops and laptops outside Citrix DaaS environments. This will give customers a consistent application delivery model across virtual and physical Windows environments. Existing Numecent customers will continue to receive support throughout the transition. Existing Citrix customers should contact their account teams for more information. David Marshall is the founder of VMblog.com, one of the industry's longest-running independent publications covering modern data center technologies. What began as a focus on virtualization and cloud computing has expanded to cover the full spectrum of enterprise IT, including AI, security, and DevOps, making VMblog a trusted destination for vendor news, technology analysis, and industry commentary.Beyond publishing, David has spent his career at the intersection of technology and business, inventing, marketing, and launching a number of successful software companies and products, and building a reputation as a skilled marketing executive in the enterprise IT space.David is also a published author, having written two well-regarded books on virtualization and served as technical editor for two "For Dummies" titles covering virtualization and cloud computing. He co-founded CloudCow.com, a publication focused on cloud computing, and has been named a VMware vExpert every year since 2009, one of the longest continuous honoree streaks in the program's history.Connect with David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmarshall/