Citrix Acquires Numecent to Simplify and Broaden Application Management and Delivery Capabilities Across Windows Environments

Acquisition advances Citrix's vision to secure the work with technology that simplifies application delivery across virtual and physical Windows environments

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Citrix, a Cloud Software Group company, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Numecent, the company behind two complementary products: Cloudpaging^®, a patented technology that packages Windows applications into isolated application containers independent of the underlying operating system, and Cloudpager^®, a cloud management console that provisions, updates, rolls back, removes and meters applications across physical and virtual Windows endpoints.

The acquisition expands Citrix^® DaaS capabilities for cloud-based application delivery across Windows environments, helping reduce the complexity and cost of traditional app packaging and image management. Unlike solutions tied to virtual desktops, Numecent's technology extends application delivery across physical and virtual Windows environments, helping organizations simplify application management at enterprise scale.

Numecent modernizes enterprise application delivery

Enterprise IT teams managing physical and virtual Windows environments face a persistent set of challenges: bloated desktop images that take weeks to update, application conflicts that break production environments and ransomware incidents that can take weeks to recover from. Numecent's technology is designed to address all three.

Cloudpaging packages Windows applications into isolated containers and streams them to Windows endpoints on demand, without traditional installation or changes to the base image. Applications behave as if natively installed. Cloudpager provides cloud-based management to assign applications to users and devices, push updates, roll back releases, recall licenses and meter usage across Windows endpoints from one console.

This acquisition builds upon the two companies’ work to integrate the Cloudpager with Citrix DaaS, following an integration launched in April enabling administrators to natively publish and manage Cloudpaging application containers through familiar Citrix workflows.

What this means for Citrix customers

With the acquisition, Citrix customers will benefit from:

• Lower desktop-management costs: Separating applications from the image can reduce the size and number of images IT maintains and shorten application update cycles.
• Rapid application recovery: After ransomware or a site failure, IT can rebuild a clean environment and quickly repopulate applications from the cloud, cutting Recovery Time Objectives and the revenue loss and regulatory exposure of an extended outage.
• Reduced application conflicts: Legacy and modern applications can run side by side, reducing application conflicts and associated troubleshooting.
• Less application repackaging: A single container can provide greater application compatibility across operating system versions and physical and virtual Windows environments, reducing the need for repackaging.
• Lower administrative overhead and greater control and visibility into software usage: IT can manage applications across virtual and physical Windows environments from one console and meter software usage and recall unused licenses.
• Enable DevOps automation workflows: IT and DevOps teams can leverage containerization to help automate application packaging and control deployment to improve speed and consistency, reduce manual steps and support a more secure environment.

“Enterprise customers have told us for years that application management is one of the most painful parts of running a Windows environment," said Shawn Bass, senior vice president and general manager of Citrix DaaS. "Numecent has solved this in a genuinely elegant way. By bringing Cloudpaging and Cloudpager into Citrix, we can make this capability native to every DaaS and physical desktop deployment so IT teams get back the time they spend wrestling with images and app conflicts.”

“Joining Citrix accelerates everything we set out to do," said Arthur Hitomi, CEO of Numecent. "Our Cloudpaging technology was built for exactly the kind of complex, high-scale environments Citrix serves. Together, we can bring app-centric resilience to enterprise desktops worldwide.”

Citrix plans to further integrate Cloudpaging and Cloudpager into the Citrix platform while continuing support for physical Windows desktops and laptops outside Citrix DaaS environments. This will give customers a consistent application delivery model across virtual and physical Windows environments. Existing Numecent customers will continue to receive support throughout the transition. Existing Citrix customers should contact their account teams for more information.

About Citrix

Citrix sets the governance for how enterprise applications are secured, accessed, and experienced. As applications evolve, data migrates, devices multiply, and AI transforms how work gets done, today’s workforce is more complex than ever — and enterprises need solutions that ensure work flows seamlessly. Founded on pioneering secure remote access, Citrix has evolved into a platform that supports the full application value chain — from secure desktop, application delivery, and enterprise browser to zero-trust access, network intelligence, and endpoint control.

For over 35 years, Citrix has helped enterprises navigate every major shift — from client-server to persona-based computing, from office-based to remote work, on-premises data centers to hybrid and multi-cloud, and now the proliferation of AI in the workplace. As technology continues to rapidly evolve, Citrix delivers the reliable, resilient foundation that customers in the most mission-critical industries — such as healthcare, financial services and government — demand to operate securely at scale. Learn more at www.citrix.com.

About Numecent

Numecent is the creator of Cloudpaging, a patented application virtualization technology that packages and delivers Windows applications as cloud-native containers, and Cloudpager, the cloud console that manages and meters those containers at scale — without installation, OS dependency, or repackaging. Launched in 2012, Numecent has enabled enterprises in regulated industries to modernize application delivery without disrupting production environments.

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