NComputing First-to-Market With HDX Ready System-on-Chip Thin Clients to Transform Citrix Deployments Globally

NComputing First-to-Market With HDX Ready System-on-Chip Thin Clients to Transform Citrix Deployments Globally PR Newswire REDWOOD CITY, California, August 30, 2012 REDWOOD CITY, California, August 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NComputing, the world leader in end-to-end desktop virtualization solutions, today announced that its breakthrough N- ®series product line is now verified as HDX Ready for Citrix XenApp™, Citrix XenDesktop , and Citrix VDI-in-a-Box™. A result of NComputing's work with Citrix to support the HDX Ready System-on-Chip initiative, the N-series devices, purpose- built for HDX, are both first-to-market and deliver disruptive price/performance compared to existing HDX Ready devices which are significantly higher in cost. All N-series products are available from Citrix resellers around the world. "System-on-a-chip based solutions like the ones offered by NComputing can disrupt the economics of thin clients for Citrix environments by offering a high-quality desktop experience with a very low-priced client" -said Bob O'Donnell, vice president at IDC. "Organizations that are eager to take on desktop virtualization but have been concerned about client costs now have a viable new alternative that they can use to drive important transformations within their IT organization." [1]A recent study by Cowen and Company stated that declining thin client costs is now a top-3 enabler for customer adoption of desktop virtualization.