Norskale

Norskale has experience in the markets of Europe, the Pacific Rim and North and South America. Norskale proposes the full-scale solution for management of jobs and user environments. For 2016 the company has more than 100 customers around the world and supports the corporate projects on deployment including up to 80,000 jobs.

History

2016: Citrix buys Norskale

In September, 2016 it became known that Citrix purchases Norskale, the private company working in the field of management of user environments (User Environment Management, UEM). The solution Norskale will allow to increase performance and scalability of the solutions on virtualization of applications and desktops of XenApp and XenDesktop conducting in the market.

Optimization of the environment of jobs requires the solution for management which in the dynamic mode will collect a virtual work place, based on an optimal combination of a user profile, settings of applications, system the politician and resource consumption volume. The solution for media control of jobs of Norskale supplements our technology of management of profiles, providing the optimal speed of work, fast login and necessary interactivity of applications, thus, we create really dynamic virtual work place for each user.

Unlike other UEM solutions, Norskale uses complex approach at the organization of a workplace, including the user, the application, a desktop and the accompanying system resources. Norskale uses the patented machine learning technology for control and the analysis of behavior of the user and the application in real time. Only Norskale supports an opportunity to intellectually regulate quantity of the system resources used by the application, including resources of RAM, the central processor and a subsystem of input-output in the best way to distribute system resources among all users. Intellectual work of an algorithm guarantees that each administrator has all necessary opportunities for productive work. At the same time system resources are saved in such a way that the scalability of the server can be instantly increased up to 70%, raising an investment payback of the companies.

The solution Norskale which will receive the name Workspace Environment Manager within XenApp and XenDesktop. The Leroy Merlin company, the large European retailer having 120 shopping centers and 21,000 employees could increase considerably performance and scalability due to the implementing solution Norskale. Leroy Merlin reduced the size of the infrastructure of DPC, already lowered time of an input of users in a system to 80% and also expects increase in number of users at one server at 20%. Taking into account simplicity of installation and increase in productivity of work of users the solution Norskale could pay back investments instantly.

Purchase of Norskale will allow Citrix to provide the maximum speed of work and to expand possibilities of users of XenApp and XenDesktop. The new solution of Workspace Environment Manager based on Norskale will be available to all users of the solutions XenApp and XenDesktop in editions Enterprise and Platinum with an active subscription of Software Maintenance.