Ardence

Ardence, a Citrix Company, is a technology company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts with representatives in Washington, D.C.; Virginia Beach, VA; Chicago, IL; Denton, TX; and Europe, Middle East, Africa and India. It develops a software-streaming product and an embedded OEM development platform.

Ardence, a Citrix Company
TypePrivate
IndustryComputer software
Founded1980
HeadquartersWaltham, Massachusetts
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Stephen M. Woodard, Vice President, Product Line Executive, OEM/Embedded Group
Number of employees
104 (2006)
Websitewww.ardence.com
Footnotes / references
Formerly: Ardence, Inc., VenturCom

On December 20, 2006, Citrix Systems Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Ardence.

The enterprise software-streaming product deploys Microsoft Windows, SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux and Turbolinux operating systems, along with all their applications, on demand from networked storage. It allows any x86-based computer - desktop, server, or device - to be provisioned, or re-provisioned from bare metal.

The core technology behind the software streaming product is a device driver for the selected operating system, which mounts a virtual disk over a custom UDP protocol.[1] Basically, computers are configured to netboot a kernel that contains this device driver.

Awards

In 2005, Ardence won the ComputerWorld Horizon Award.[2]

In 2006, Ardence won the CRN Best In Show Award at IBM PartnerWorld.[3]

History

VenturCom was founded in 1980,[4] by Marc H. Meyer, Doug Mook, Bill Spencer and Myron Zimmerman. The company changed its name to Ardence in 2004.[5]

On December 20, 2006, Citrix Systems Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Ardence.[6]

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