Type | Private |
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Industry | Computer software |
Founded | 1980 |
Headquarters | Waltham, Massachusetts |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Stephen M. Woodard, Vice President, Product Line Executive, OEM/Embedded Group |
Number of employees | 104 (2006) |
Website | www.ardence.com |
Footnotes / references Formerly: Ardence, Inc., VenturCom |
Ardence, a Citrix Company, is a technology company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts with representatives in Washington, D.C.; Virginia Beach, VA; Chicago ; Denton, TX; and Europe, Middle East, Africa and India . It develops a software-streaming product and an embedded OEM development platform.
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.
In 2005, Ardence won the ComputerWorld Horizon Award.[2]
In 2006, Ardence won the CRN Best In Show Award at IBM PartnerWorld.[3]
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]