Citrix buys company that containerizes Windows desktop apps independently of the OS

Citrix on Tuesday announced that it has completed the acquisition of longtime partner Numecent, producer of technology that containerizes and manages Windows applications. The acquisition builds on joint efforts to integrate Numecent’s management tool, Cloudpager, with Citrix Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) after an integration announced in April let administrators natively publish and manage the application containers through familiar Citrix workflows. Numecent’s other product, Cloudpaging, packages Windows applications into isolated application containers independent of the underlying operating system, streaming them to Windows endpoints on demand rather than requiring them to be included in a desktop image. Citrix plans to further integrate the technology into its platform, while also continuing Cloudpaging and Cloudpager support for physical Windows devices. “Enterprise customers have told us for years that application management is one of the most painful parts of running a Windows environment,” said Shawn Bass, SVP and GM of Citrix DaaS, in the announcement of the acquisition. “Numecent has solved this in a genuinely elegant way. By bringing Cloudpaging and Cloudpager into Citri…

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