On December 20, 2006, Citrix Systems Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Ardence. In 2008, some former Ardence executives acquired the Ardence programs from Citrix and formed IntervalZero.
VenturCom was founded in 1980,[1] by Marc H. Meyer, Doug Mook, Bill Spencer and Myron Zimmerman. The company changed its name to Ardence in 2004.[2]
On December 20, 2006, Citrix Systems Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Ardence.[3]
In 2008, a group of former Ardence executives founded IntervalZero and acquired the Ardence embedded software business from Citrix.[4]Citrix retained a minority ownership the firm.
The core technology behind the software streaming product was a device driver for the selected operating system, which mounts a virtual disk over a custom UDP protocol.[5] Basically, computers were configured to netboot a kernel that contained this device driver.
Awardsedit
In 2005, Ardence won the ComputerWorld Horizon Award.[6]
In 2006, Ardence won the CRN Best In Show Award at IBM PartnerWorld.[7]
^"VenturCom Changes Name to Ardence, Re-Locates to New Global Headquarters; New Software-Streaming Solutions Are Fueling Growth and Creating Additional Market Opportunities". www.businesswire.com. 2005-01-31. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
^. Associated Press. Dec 20, 2006. Archived from the original on March 23, 2007. Retrieved December 21, 2006.
^Citrix Sells its Ardence Embedded Software Business to IntervalZero – TMCNet
^Madden, Brian (2006). "Using Ardence Disk Streaming with Citrix Servers".
^. Archived from the original on 2004-10-20. Retrieved 2006-09-07.
External linksedit
Official website
Computer World Article on Software-Streaming
January 01, 1970
ardence, topic, this, article, meet, wikipedia, notability, guidelines, companies, organizations, please, help, demonstrate, notability, topic, citing, reliable, secondary, sources, that, independent, topic, provide, significant, coverage, beyond, mere, trivia. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention If notability cannot be shown the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted Find sources Ardence news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2022 Learn how and when to remove this message Ardence was a software company headquartered in Waltham Massachusetts with representatives in Washington D C Virginia Beach VA Chicago IL Denton TX and in Europe the Middle East Africa and India It developed a software streaming product and an embedded OEM development platform It was founded in 1980 as VenturCom Ardence a Citrix CompanyCompany typePrivateIndustryComputer softwareFounded1980HeadquartersWaltham MassachusettsArea servedWorldwideKey peopleStephen M Woodard Vice President Product Line Executive OEM Embedded GroupNumber of employees104 2006 Websitewww ardence comFootnotes referencesFormerly Ardence Inc VenturCom On December 20 2006 Citrix Systems Inc announced an agreement to acquire Ardence In 2008 some former Ardence executives acquired the Ardence programs from Citrix and formed IntervalZero Contents 1 History 2 Products 3 Awards 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksHistory editVenturCom was founded in 1980 1 by Marc H Meyer Doug Mook Bill Spencer and Myron Zimmerman The company changed its name to Ardence in 2004 2 On December 20 2006 Citrix Systems Inc announced an agreement to acquire Ardence 3 In 2008 a group of former Ardence executives founded IntervalZero and acquired the Ardence embedded software business from Citrix 4 Citrix retained a minority ownership the firm Products editThe enterprise software streaming product deployed Microsoft Windows SUSE Linux Red Hat Linux and Turbolinux operating systems along with all their applications on demand from networked storage It allowed 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 was a device driver for the selected operating system which mounts a virtual disk over a custom UDP protocol 5 Basically computers were configured to netboot a kernel that contained this device driver Awards editIn 2005 Ardence won the ComputerWorld Horizon Award 6 In 2006 Ardence won the CRN Best In Show Award at IBM PartnerWorld 7 See also editVenixReferences edit 1 Archived 2006 05 23 at the Wayback Machine VenturCom Changes Name to Ardence Re Locates to New Global Headquarters New Software Streaming Solutions Are Fueling Growth and Creating Additional Market Opportunities www businesswire com 2005 01 31 Retrieved 2020 12 21 Citrix Announces Agreement to Acquire Ardence Inc Enabling On Demand Provisioning for Application Delivery Associated Press Dec 20 2006 Archived from the original on March 23 2007 Retrieved December 21 2006 Citrix Sells its Ardence Embedded Software Business to IntervalZero TMCNet Madden Brian 2006 Using Ardence Disk Streaming with Citrix Servers ComputerWorld Horizon Award CRN Best In Show Award Archived from the original on 2004 10 20 Retrieved 2006 09 07 External links editOfficial website Research report on Ardence by infoworld Software Streaming in Education Computer World Article on Software Streaming Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ardence amp oldid 1129733709, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
