Highlights the vital user insight Centrix WorkSpace iQ(TM) brings to partners and customers defining and delivering application upgrade, OS migration, cloud and desktop virtualization projects

Centrix Software, a provider of unified end-user computing solutions, today announced that it has been named as a ‘Hot Emerging Vendor’ by CRN magazine in the US.

Centrix Software features in CRN’s September profile of 10 IT vendors that it feels are ‘exploding on the scene’.

Centrix Software enables companies to take a user-centric approach to desktop transformation, ensuring that new applications, OS platforms and infrastructure investments such as desktop virtualization are designed from the outset to meet the unique needs of their user environments.

CRN’s profile of Centrix Software highlights the value of Centrix WorkSpace iQ, an analytics solution for end-user computing environments, to partners and customers. Centrix WorkSpace iQ gives organizations the ability to understand quickly and easily the dynamics of their computing environments; from the assets that are installed to how people actually use the IT resources provided by corporate IT teams on a day-to-day basis. The intelligence it delivers, in the form of actionable reports, gives IT and project teams vital insight for shaping IT transformation strategies, determining the selection of best-fit technologies and optimizing the deployment of devices, applications and platforms, whether virtual, web, physical or cloud-based.

“As a company whose go-to-market strategy is 100% channel focused, it’s great to have the support of CRN and to be recognized as one of its Hot Emerging Vendors,” said Lewis Gee, worldwide vice president of sales and marketing at Centrix Software. “Our solutions are designed to help partners not only maximize the consulting value they deliver to customers but also address many of the barriers stalling transformation projects and investment decisions. The insight partners and customers can obtain from our analytics product enables them to build an informed business case and maximize the value of new investments, such as desktop virtualization and Windows 7, as well as drive more efficiency from customers’ existing infrastructure through optimization and rationalization.”

Centrix Software recently announced plans to expand its operations and channel network in the US, following the completion of a $10million funding round. Centrix Software works with a network of value added partners that are specialists in virtualization, Microsoft technologies, desktop infrastructure and software asset management.

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/centrix-software-named-in-crns-hot-emerging-vendors-2011-10-12

Appoints new Director of Product Marketing and former VMware Systems Engineer as demand for desktop transformation support continues to grow

Newbury, UK – 28th September 2011: Centrix Software, a provider of unified end-user computing solutions, today announced the appointment of Richard Pegden as its new Director of Product Marketing and Angus Adigun as Senior Systems Engineer, bringing a wealth of IT and product marketing experience to its growing team.

With over 17 years IT industry experience, Pegden joins Centrix Software from MicroFocus where he was Head of Product Marketing and a member of the company’s Senior Leadership Team. In this role, Pegden was responsible for messaging, marketing content and sales enablement across MicroFocus’ application management solutions. Pegden’s IT industry expertise spans enterprise security, service management and technology consulting, having held previous product management and marketing roles at Hornbill, SOPHOS and BMC. At Centrix Software, Pegden will oversee the company’s global product marketing activities as the company expands its reach across EMEA and the US.

Adigun brings over three decades of technical IT experience to Centrix Software, including seven years experience in virtualisation technologies. He joins Centrix Software from VMware, where he served as Senior Partner Systems Engineer responsible for supporting OEM partners and a number of large Enterprise partners. At Centrix Software, Adigun will provide pre-sales support to enterprise customers and strategic partners around the company’s Centrix WorkSpace solutions.

“We are seeing increasing demand for our analytics and application delivery solutions as organisations assess their plans for OS migrations, cloud computing, application rationalisation and desktop virtualisation,” said Lewis Gee, vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Centrix Software. “We are very excited that Richard and Angus have joined the Centrix Software team. Their roles will be instrumental to the development and expansion of the company as we respond to market opportunities and customer requirements.”

Centrix Software provides a suite of analytics and application delivery solutions for enterprise IT professionals that support the development, implementation and management of end-user computing environments. Its Centrix WorkSpace solutions reduce the cost and complexity of application delivery and enable organisations to make more informed decisions about strategic desktop transformation initiatives such as OS migrations, desktop virtualisation and application rationalisation. Centrix Software recently announced it has received $10million private investment to support its growth plans.

Source:http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=67357

Centrix Software today previewed its new AppCentral feature for Centrix WorkSpace Universal at the IPExpo event in London. AppCentral enables organisations to centrally aggregate and track applications distributed across multiple technology platforms and start the journey towards an IT-as-a-service sourcing strategy.

Part of the Centrix WorkSpace 5™ product suite, AppCentral provides a host of features for provisioning IT-as-a-service, including:

• A service catalogue for tracking application assets deployed across the enterprise
• Self service capabilities that allow end-users to gain secure, single sign-on access to their applications and services through a browser
• A seamless consumer cloud experience for the end-user, regardless of where the application is being run
• Reporting features that show corporate IT decision-makers the least cost sourcing option for delivering an application based on user consumption patterns.

“With the emergence of cloud computing, the question for corporate IT decision-makers, and those responsible for implementations, is no longer should we buy and install IT services, it is how we can subscribe and consume,” said Lisa Hammond, CEO of Centrix Software. “The way a company manages its IT sourcing across all business functions will become indistinguishable from the organisation’s competitive strategy. Smart organisations will have to look at the entire spectrum of sourcing options from a strategic standpoint, reinventing their IT service delivery by drawing together the right capabilities from the right sources at the right time. Achieving this will require access to information from across the IT infrastructure based on what users are really consuming from IT, and the IT intelligence to act on this data.”

Creating an IT as a Service framework

Centrix WorkSpace 5 enables organisations to create a service framework around the sourcing and delivery of applications and desktops to end-users. It focuses on moving IT from a “buy and install” approach to a “subscribe and consume” model and can be applied to any IT environment or technology platform. With Centrix WorkSpace 5, corporate IT can take a best-fit approach for their enterprise IT requirements, selecting the best technologies for delivering applications to users in the most efficient and cost-effective way.

Centrix WorkSpace 5 is made up of three products that share one platform, the Centrix Interconnect Platform, or CIP:

• Centrix WorkSpace Discovery™ – a free tool that shows organisations the application assets that are installed on their desktops, and how they are being used. It supports the development of initial business case arguments for technology adoption, as well as potential areas for cost savings and optimisation of IT.

• Centrix WorkSpace iQ™ – provides a platform for discovering, monitoring and metering IT assets and service consumption across an organisation’s IT environment. Enterprises can use this data to assess the business value of IT assets and services, and develop chargeback processes. This enables corporate IT to apply an IT as a Service approach to their existing environments.

• Centrix WorkSpace Universal™ – presents users with a single view of their applications and IT assets from wherever they are hosted. IT can identify the cost of sourcing and delivering applications, while the end-user can access the applications they need. WorkSpace Universal provides an Adobe Flash-based Rich Internet Application portal, as well as now supporting access through HTML browsers.

Source:http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=60062