Citrix has agreed to buy Ardence, a software streaming technology developer whose products will help Citrix advance its position in the emerging application virtualization software market. Financial terms were not disclosed, although Citrix said it expects the deal to add at least $15 million in revenue to its books in its 2007 fiscal year.
Ardence picked up a CRN Best in Show award at IBM PartnerWorld this year for Ardence Data Center, which helped one of its customers cut its server provisioning process from hours to minutes. The company's software for real-time operating system provisioning is used by clients such as Time Warner Cable to deliver virtual PCs to call-center representatives, allowing one master image to run virtually on hundreds of machines.
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