CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - May 5, 2009) - Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs) and Citrix Systems,
Inc. (
NASDAQ:
CTXS), today announced plans to provide a set of solutions
for delivering enterprise applications to mobile devices based on
mobile-to-enterprise virtualization (M2E). This strategy builds on Citrix's
recent investment in OK Labs and reinforces the companies' shared vision of
virtualization for all devices, from Windows desktops and netbooks, to
smartphones and mobile internet devices. The combined technologies,
including Citrix application delivery infrastructure and the OKL4 mobile
phone virtualization solution, will provide easily deployed and securely
managed access to enterprise and desktop applications from wireless
devices.
Together, OK Labs and Citrix will enable end users to leverage a single
device by moving between corporate and personal worlds without risk of
compromising company data, applications, or networks. Mobile-to-enterprise
virtualization will also enable user personalization preferences and a
"bring your own device" (BYOD) option to the corporate environment.
OK Labs and Citrix are uniquely positioned to comprehensively extend
enterprise application delivery onto the broadest range of mobile devices.
OK Labs already goes to market with mobile network operators, device OEMs,
OS vendors, and semiconductor suppliers and Citrix's enterprise reach and
channel will be a perfect vehicle to consume the capabilities of the OK
Labs enabled mobile devices.
"Citrix has 100 million daily users and the OKL4 microvisor is already
deployed in over 300 million devices," said Steve Subar, President and CEO
of OK Labs. "The intersection between OK Labs sizeable deployment in
handsets -- from Sony Ericsson, HTC, Motorola, Toshiba, LG and others --
and the Citrix mobile device technology available -- for iPhone, Windows
Mobile, RIM and Symbian phones -- creates new opportunities across the
mobile/internet ecosystem, from MNOs, to handset OEMs, semiconductor
suppliers, and enterprise IT."
Extending application delivery to mobile devices is the next logical play
for virtualization, one that highlights tangible benefits for mobile phone
users. "Working together on mobile-to-enterprise virtualization (M2E),
Citrix and OK Labs will enable handset OEMs, MNOs, or enterprises to
deliver enterprise applications and content to any mobile device through an
OK Labs implementation of Citrix Receiver for the OK Labs mobile phone
virtualization platform," said Martin Duursma, Vice President, Citrix Labs.
"Today's announcement broadens the Citrix vision of Project Independence
for local desktop virtualization and desktop computing and applies it to
enterprise application and desktop delivery into mobile devices."
Why virtualization for mobile devices?
"As virtualization reaches out from the server room to make the desktop
just another enterprise infrastructure asset, these handheld devices will
be next," said Rachel Chalmers, research analyst at 451 Group. "They're
easily capable of functioning as mobile enterprise application end-points.
They're going to need exactly the same kinds of security, policy
enforcement and central manageability as anything else in the modern, Web
2.0-friendly, regulatory-compliant enterprise."
Who will benefit from mobile-to-enterprise virtualization (M2E)?
-- Enterprise IT by addressing corporate security requirements for
corporate data, while meeting end-user personalization preferences
-- Mobile phone users with the ability to quickly navigate, open, view,
and get secure access to content and applications in the corporate
partition of the mobile phone, while maintaining ability to move between
personal and corporate worlds with a single mobile device of their choice
(BYOD)
-- Handset OEMs and their channels through reduced costs and development
time and by growing device sales to the enterprise
-- Semiconductor suppliers who can save time/money when a common and
consistent software architecture is portable across a broad range of
processor platforms
-- Mobile network operators by generating revenues from enterprise
services pushed to mobile phones
Open Kernel Labs
Open Kernel Labs is the global leader in open source virtualization
software for mobile devices, consumer electronics and embedded systems.
Backed by the largest, independent team of microkernel developers, the OKL4
microvisor is deployed on more than 300 million mobile phones worldwide.
Chipset suppliers, handset OEMs, and mobile network operators depend on OK
Labs to deliver high performance solutions that decrease BOM cost, reduce
complexity and speed time-to-market.
For information on the OK Community, please visit the Community Portal at
www.ok-labs.com/community/community-portal. Participants can join the
Developer's Mailing List at
http://www.ok-labs.com/community/mailing-list-signup.
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (
NASDAQ:
CTXS) is the leading provider of
virtualization, networking and software as a service technologies for more
than 230,000 organizations worldwide. Its Citrix Delivery Center, Citrix
Cloud Center (C3) and Citrix Online Services product families radically
simplify computing for millions of users, delivering applications as an
on-demand service to any user, in any location on any device. Citrix
customers include the world's largest Internet companies, 99 percent of
Fortune Global 500 enterprises, and hundreds of thousands of small
businesses and prosumers worldwide. Citrix partners with over 10,000
companies worldwide in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1989, annual
revenue in 2008 was $1.6 billion.
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other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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Contact Information: CONTACT:
Chris Walker
Connect Public Relations
(801) 373-7888
Marti Konstant
Open Kernel Labs
(312) 933-0101
Karin Gilles
Citrix Systems
(408) 790-8634