KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Devon IT, Inc., a leading thin client hardware and software provider, announced today at Citrix Synergy 2010, www.citrixsynergy.com, the availability of two Citrix HDX Ready thin client solutions, the Intel Atom based TC5D and the SafeBook E5400X based on the Dell platform. More information can be found here: http://www.citrix.com/ready/list/products?partnerKey=devon-it-inc

HDX™ technology, Citrix XenDesktop® delivers a superior user experience for virtual desktops. The HDX Ready designation is reserved for thin client solutions like the TC5D and E5400X that have been verified to work with all of the HDX technology in XenDesktop and Citrix XenApp™.

“Devon IT continues to advance the capabilities of virtual desktop computing with their thin client hardware and software,” said John Fanelli, vice president , community and solutions marketing at Citrix. “Coupled with HDX technology these Devon IT thin client solutions provides an excellent experience for demanding users who require multi-monitor support, high-definition video and use high throughput devices such as VOIP headsets. Devon IT’s technologies complement and extend HDX capabilities to deliver a high-definition user experience and expand the ability of companies and organizations to offer virtual desktops to a wide variety of users.”

“Citrix HDX technology delivers an outstanding user experience playing a vital role in the adoption of alternatives to PC computing models,” says Stephane Verdy, Devon IT’s CTO. “HDX capabilities allow seamless multimedia, plug-and-play access to USB and other peripherals, high performance graphics, VOIP, and other key media imperative for business functionality. We are proud that our technology has grown with Citrix and that Devon IT thin client solutions such as the TC5 can advance side-by-side with XenDesktop to enhance the experience for thin client users.”

The TC5 was the first thin client generally available with the powerful Intel® Atom™ n270 1.6GHz dual threaded processor capable of dual DVI displays with a minimum desktop footprint. The SafeBook® E5400X – based on the Dell E5400 platform, is Devon IT’s third generation of SafeBook mobile thin client model and is orderable through Dell. All Devon IT thin client solutions can be managed by Devon IT Echo management software.

Devon IT engineers are available for technical demonstrations of all Citrix and HDX ready thin client solutions at the Citrix Synergy 2010 conference in San Francisco, May 12-14, 2010 in booth number 430. More information about the company’s hardware and software solutions are available at www.devonit.com.

Executives are weighing in on what to expect next year in server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, OS virtualization, I/O virtualization, network virtualization, storage virtualization and more.

We offered our thoughts which are anchored in the game-altering impact new RDP protocols, including VMware View 4, XenDesktop 4, RDP 7 and SPICE are having on the marketplace.

While Citrix ICA and Windows Terminal Services clearly have the deepest market penetration, the high-powered technologies of PCoIP and others, coupled with advanced thin client hardware, can deliver users true PC experiences – on everything from YouTube videos to CAD engineering programs – in a virtual desktop.

It will be interesting to see the adoption in the industry now that some of these performance barriers will be broken – we think it’s the future of alternative desktop computing.

 Citrix, a Devon IT business partner, hosted its XenDesktop Challenge on CitrixTV (http://www.citrix.com/tv/). Thin client vendors submitted videos depicting their thin clients running XenDesktop in various capacities. The winners were decided by Citrix executives Doug Brown, Sumit Dhawan, and Chris Fleck, plus the community votes of ratings and view count. Devon IT submitted two videos, winning in three out of the eight categories.

“Our powerful, Citrix Ready TC5 thin client has proven to be a leading solution for customers worldwide, and combined with XenDesktop users benefit from outstanding performance,” says Joe Makoid, President, Devon IT. “We are ecstatic to offer the TC5 with XenDesktop, and proud that Citrix executives and IT customers recognized this solution’s synergy and voted in the video challenge.” 

Devon IT’s winning videos can be seen on Thin Client TV (http://www.devonit.com/thin-client-tv). The “Benefits of XenDesktop and the TC5 Thin Client” video won for Best Overall Video (User Community Vote) and Best Video (Expert Panel Vote), and the “Coolness of Provisioning Server” video won for Best Support of a Locally Streamed Desktop.

For more information about Devon IT, thin client computing, or virtualization, or to arrange for a demonstration, email info@devonit.com or call 610-757-4220 or 888-524-9382. Information is also available at www.devonit.com.