Citrix launches DaaS Flex to help businesses avoid costly PC hardware upgrades with cloud desktops
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Simon Sharwood
Summary
Cloud Software Group has productized an internal cost-analysis tool into "Citrix DaaS Flex," a desktop-as-a-service offering that allows businesses to delay expensive PC hardware upgrades by running work desktops in the cloud. The tool analyzes ideal desktop environments to prevent overspending on under-utilized endpoints, addressing the challenge of soaring PC prices that make hardware refreshes increasingly costly for enterprises.
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· 3 pulledYour next work PC could live in the cloud.
The Cloud Software Group – the private-equity-owned vendor that mashed up Citrix with Tibco – built a tool to analyze the ideal desktop environment for its users, a cost-control exercise aimed at ensuring it wasn't spending big on under-utilized endpoints.
Last month, the company productized the result and put it on sale under the name 'Citrix DaaS Flex.'
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