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Citrix and Amazon are teaming up to put Citrix's application delivery software into the cloud, letting enterprises stream apps to users from Amazon's data centers.
The companies announced a pilot program to run XenApp on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud service Thursday.
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"Virtualizing applications provides IT managers a single instance of each application in either the data center or the cloud (i.e., EC2)," Citrix CTO Simon Crosby writes in a blog post. "Applications are then delivered via application streaming directly to Windows devices for both online and offline use."
The pilot will let Citrix customers move their XenApp licenses from their own data centers to Amazon EC2 and "run their applications...