Ardence

Ardence, a Citrix Company

Type| Private
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.

## Contents

* 1 Awards
* 2 History
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Awards

In 2005, Ardence won the ComputerWorld Horizon Award.[2]

In 2006, Ardence won the CRN Best In Show Award at IBM PartnerWorld.[3]

## History

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]

## See also

* Venix

## References

1. ↑ Madden, Brian (2006). "Using Ardence Disk Streaming with Citrix Servers". http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Using-Ardence-Disk-Streaming-with-Citrix-Servers.
2. ↑ ComputerWorld Horizon Award
3. ↑ "CRN Best In Show Award". http://www.crn.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JAD4H3EN2ZVW0QSNDBOCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleID=181503782&queryText=ardence.
4. ↑ [1]
5. ↑ "VenturCom Changes Name to Ardence, Re-Locates to New Global Headquarters; New Software-Streaming Solutions Are Fueling Growth and Creating Additional Market Opportunities" (in en). 2005-01-31. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20050131005140/en/VenturCom-Changes-Name-to-Ardence-Re-Locates-to-New-Global-Headquarters-New-Software-Streaming-Solutions-Are-Fueling-Growth-and-Creating-Additional-Market-Opportunities.
6. ↑ "Citrix Announces Agreement to Acquire Ardence Inc. Enabling On Demand Provisioning for Application Delivery". Associated Press. Dec 20, 2006. http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=162572&ntref=hp_article_headlines_US.

## External links

* Research report on Ardence by infoworld
* Software-Streaming in Education
* Computer World Article on Software-Streaming

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Subsidiaries|

* Ardence
* Citrix Online
* Net6
* RightSignature
* ShareFile
* Zenprise

Products|

* Apache CloudStack
* Citrix WinFrame
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* GoToAssist
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* Xen
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People|

* Ed Iacobucci
* Mark B. Templeton
* Kirill Tatarinov

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