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Ardence, a Citrix Company

Type	Private
Founded	1980
Headquarters	Waltham, Massachusetts
Key people	Stephen M. Woodard, Vice President, Product Line Executive, OEM/Embedded Group
Industry	Computer software
Employees	104 (2006)
Website	www.ardence.com
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, IL; Denton, TX; and Europe, Middle East, Africa and India.

On December 20th, 2006, Citrix Systems Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Ardence.

Ardence is a software company that develops a Software-Streaming solution and an Embedded OEM Development Platform.

The enterprise Software-Streaming solution delivers Microsoft Windows, SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux and Turbolinux operating systems along with all their applications on demand from networked storage. Using Ardence's software-streaming technology, any x86-based computer - desktop, server, or device - can be provisioned, or re-provisioned from bare metal to production in minutes.

The core technology behind the software streaming solution is a device driver for the desired operating system that mounts the desired 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 Founders 4 See also 5 References 6 External links 6.1 Competing products

[edit] Awards

In 2005, Ardence won the ComputerWorld Horizon Award.

In 2006, Ardence won the CRN Best In Show Award at IBM PartnerWorld.^[2]

[edit] History

VenturCom, founded in 1980.^[3]

Ardence, Inc. changed its name from VenturCom in 2004.
On December 20th 2006, Citrix Systems Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Ardence.^[4]

[edit] Founders

• Marc H. Meyer
• Doug Mook
• Bill Spencer
• Myron Zimmerman

[edit] See also

• Venix

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Success Profiles - Software Streaming Platform
• Success Profiles - Embedded Solutions
• Research report on Ardence by infoworld
• Software-Streaming in Education
• Computer World Article on Software-Streaming
• Official Ardence Support

[edit] Competing products

• iRMX by TenAsys
• www.neoware.com — Neoware Image Manager
• www.vhdsoft.com — Xtreaming Technology Inc Virtual Hard Disk system
• LinMin by LinMin Corp.