Ardence
{{notability|Corp|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox company
| logo = Ardence Citrix.png
| name = Ardence, a Citrix Company
| foundation = 1980
| type = Private
| location = Waltham, Massachusetts
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = Stephen M. Woodard, Vice President, Product Line Executive, OEM/Embedded Group
| industry = Computer software
| num_employees = 104 (2006)
| homepage = [http://www.ardence.com/ www.ardence.com]
| footnotes = Formerly: Ardence, Inc., VenturCom
}}
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.
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.
History
VenturCom was founded in 1980,[http://www.manufacturingcenter.com/metlfax/archives/0301/0301cmv.asp] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060523224907/http://www.manufacturingcenter.com/metlfax/archives/0301/0301cmv.asp |archivedate=2006-05-23}} by Marc H. Meyer, Doug Mook, Bill Spencer and Myron Zimmerman. The company changed its name to Ardence in 2004.{{Cite web|date=2005-01-31|title=VenturCom Changes Name to Ardence, Re-Locates to New Global Headquarters; New Software-Streaming Solutions Are Fueling Growth and Creating Additional Market Opportunities|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20050131005140/en/VenturCom-Changes-Name-to-Ardence-Re-Locates-to-New-Global-Headquarters-New-Software-Streaming-Solutions-Are-Fueling-Growth-and-Creating-Additional-Market-Opportunities|access-date=2020-12-21|website=www.businesswire.com|language=en}}
On December 20, 2006, Citrix Systems Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Ardence.{{cite news | agency=Associated Press | title=Citrix Announces Agreement to Acquire Ardence Inc. Enabling On Demand Provisioning for Application Delivery | date=Dec 20, 2006 | url=http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=162572&ntref=hp_article_headlines_US | access-date=December 21, 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070323043621/http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=162572&ntref=hp_article_headlines_US | archive-date=March 23, 2007 | url-status=dead }}
In 2008, a group of former Ardence executives founded IntervalZero and acquired the Ardence embedded software business from Citrix.[http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/35368-citrix-sells-its-ardence-embedded-software-business-intervalzero.htm Citrix Sells its Ardence Embedded Software Business to IntervalZero – TMCNet] Citrix retained a minority ownership the firm.
Products
The 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.{{cite web | last=Madden | first=Brian | year=2006 | url=http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Using-Ardence-Disk-Streaming-with-Citrix-Servers | title=Using Ardence Disk Streaming with Citrix Servers}} Basically, computers were configured to netboot a kernel that contained this device driver.
Awards
In 2005, Ardence won the ComputerWorld Horizon Award.[http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,104421p5,00.html ComputerWorld Horizon Award]
In 2006, Ardence won the CRN Best In Show Award at IBM PartnerWorld.{{Cite web |url=http://www.crn.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JAD4H3EN2ZVW0QSNDBOCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleID=181503782&queryText=ardence |title=CRN Best In Show Award |access-date=2006-09-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041020035035/http://www.crn.com/showArticle.jhtml |archive-date=2004-10-20 |url-status=dead }}
See also
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.ardence.com/}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060831085100/http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2006/08/research_report.html Research report on Ardence by infoworld]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901202532/http://www.districtadministration.com/page.cfm?p=1431 Software-Streaming in Education]
- [http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/apps/story/0,10801,106354,00.html Computer World Article on Software-Streaming]
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Category:Software companies based in Massachusetts
Category:Software companies established in 1980
Category:Defunct software companies of the United States
Category:2006 mergers and acquisitions
Category:Software companies disestablished in 2008