Citrix acquires RingCube

Citrix have just announced their acquisition of RingCube, it’s been an active few months for Citrix with their recent acquisition of Kaviza. RingCube’s vDesk product fits in the user virtualisation/user personalisation category along with products from Unidesk and AppSense. vDesk is much more than user profile management (likewise for the Unidesk and AppSense products), to quote RingCube’s website “The vDesk workspace separates the user’s desktop environment, including applications, data, and settings, from the operating system”….. “When administrators need to provision new applications, update existing applications or deliver data to the users’ workspace, they simply make the change in the master workspace, apply the new version of the master to the user or group, and a differential update is automatically pushed to the user at their next login.”