What's New in XenDesktop 5.5

XenDesktop 5.5 accelerates desktop transformation by delivering high-performance personal desktops and apps with all the flexibility, performance and user experience of a PC, but optimized for network, server and storage resources.

Enterprises around the world are transforming their desktop environments from device-centric management to user-centric private clouds where desktops and applications are delivered as a service, on-demand. XenDesktop 5.5 accelerates desktop transformation by delivering high-performance personal desktops and apps with all the flexibility, performance and user experience of a PC, but optimized for network, server and storage resources.

Personal VDI desktops for any user

Expand the use cases for virtual desktops to demanding knowledge workers by permitting all of the customization, application flexibility and persistence they expect from their desktop while achieving the ease of management and storage optimizations you need for large-scale deployments.

• Virtual user drive technology in Desktop Studio permits administrators or even users to install applications without impacting the master image (Early access)
• New user profile manager unifies and manages user settings across Windows platforms
• Windows folder redirection keeps user data out of the virtual machine for efficiency and high availability.

Learn more about FlexCast.

Support for more than one billion devices

Provide secure access to any desktop or application over any device from any location.

• New Citrix Receiver clients support over one billion devices including iOS, Android, WebOS, Chrome OS, Mac OS, Linux and Windows
• New Receiver clients deliver over three times faster Windows performance
• New Receiver client for Linux powers a new generation of low-cost thin clients.

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Scalable, high-performance multimedia

Optimize your users' experience by delivering high-quality voice, video and multimedia while reducing bandwidth and server-side rendering to drive down the cost of deployment.

• Real-time audio stream reduces the impact of network latency for voice traffic
• Webcam compression enables enterprise-scale video conferencing
• Graphics command redirection decreases bandwidth an additional 33 percent while delivering a "local" experience.
• Intelligent local rendering takes the load off the server, increasing density by 10 times

Learn more about HDX.

Breakthrough WAN performance for remote,
branch and cloud deployments

Expand virtual desktop deployments across the enterprise from remote branches to mobile users with high quality of service to meet the most demanding service level agreements.

• New multi-stream ICA splits virtual desktop traffic into five separate streams, permitting granular Quality of Service controls
• HDX WAN optimization powered by Branch Repeater 6.0 doubles the number of users that can be supported on a given network
• HDX WAN optimization improves performance for both mobile users and branch employees

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