2X Software was a

Maltese Maltese may refer to: * Someone or something of, from, or related to Malta * Maltese alphabet * Maltese cuisine * Maltese culture * Maltese language, the Semitic language spoken by Maltese people * Maltese people, people from Malta or of Malte ...

software company A software company is a company whose primary products are various forms of software, software technology, distribution, and software product development. They make up the software industry. Types There are a number of different types of soft ...

specializing in

virtual desktop In computing, a virtual desktop is a term used with respect to user interfaces, usually within the WIMP (computing), WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which the virtual space of a computer's desktop environment is expanded beyond the physica ...

, application virtualization, application delivery, Remote Desktop Services, remote access and

Mobile Device Management Mobile device management (MDM) is the administration of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers, and laptops. MDM is usually implemented with the use of a third-party product that has management features for particular vendors of ...

. On 25 February 2015, 2X Software was acquired by

Parallels, Inc. Parallels is a software company based in Bellevue, Washington; it is primarily involved in the development of virtualization software for macOS. The company has offices in 14 countries, including The United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France ...

The 2X products, Remote Application Server and Mobile Device Management, are now included in Parallels' offering.

Profile

The company has offices in the United States, Germany, UK, Australia and Malta. It develops software for the server-based computing market, in the application virtualization, remote desktop services and virtual desktop infrastructure space. With the acquisition of MDM from 3CX, the company extended its portfolio to include

mobile device management Mobile device management (MDM) is the administration of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers, and laptops. MDM is usually implemented with the use of a third-party product that has management features for particular vendors of ...

. In 2014 it was a finalist for Best of TechEd 2014, Govies Government Security Award 2014 and Datacenter ICT Application Product of the Year. The company was acquired by

on 25 February 2015.

Products

2X Remote Application Server

2X RAS delivers virtual desktops and Windows applications hosted on

hypervisor A hypervisor (also known as a virtual machine monitor, VMM, or virtualizer) is a type of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. A computer on which a hypervisor runs one or more virtual machines is called ...

s such as

Microsoft Hyper-V Microsoft Hyper-V, codenamed Viridian, and briefly known before its release as Windows Server Virtualization, is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. Starting with Windows 8, Hyper-V superseded Win ...

Citrix XenServer Citrix Systems, Inc. is an American multinational cloud computing and virtualization technology company that provides server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software as a service (SaaS), and cloud computing technologies. ...

VMware vSphere VMware vSphere (formerly VMware Infrastructure 4) is VMware's cloud computing virtualization platform. It includes an updated vCenter Configuration Manager, as well as vCenter Application Discovery Manager, and the ability of vMotion to move ...

and others, to remote mobile or desktop devices, 2X RAS won Cloud Computing Magazine's 2012 Cloud Computing Excellence Award. 2X RAS has also won the Government Security Award 2014 and has been named to CRN's 2014 Virtualization 50 list. The latest version of 2X RAS was released at the beginning of August 2014. The main feature updates are the management of

Windows PC Windows is a group of several Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, W ...

s as pseudo thin clients, and

remote assistance Quick Assist is a Microsoft Windows feature that allows a user to view or control a remote Windows computer over a network or the Internet to resolve issues without directly touching the unit. It is based on the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). It is ...

. After the acquisition by Parallels Inc., it was rebranded to

Parallels RAS Parallels RAS is application virtualization software produced by Parallels that allows Windows applications to be accessed via individual devices from a shared server or cloud system. Parallels RAS was first released in 2014 by 2X Software. P ...

2X RDP Client

2X RDP Client provides remote desktop and application access for any web-enabled device, including

Android Android may refer to: Science and technology * Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human * Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system ** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to ...

ChromeOS ChromeOS, sometimes stylized as chromeOS and formerly styled as Chrome OS, is a Linux-based operating system designed by Google. It is derived from the open-source ChromiumOS and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interfac ...

, Microsoft Windows, Linux OS,

Windows Phone Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune. Windows Phone featured a new user interface derived from the Metro design lan ...

MAC OS Two major famlies of Mac operating systems were developed by Apple Inc. In 1984, Apple debuted the operating system that is now known as the "Classic" Mac OS with its release of the original Macintosh System Software. The system, rebranded " ...

HTML5 HTML5 is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. It is the fifth and final major HTML version that is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation. The current specification is known as the HT ...

and iOS devices. 2X RAS delivers

Microsoft Office Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is the former name of a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a ma ...

applications to any remote or local users on the major

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. 2X RDP Client connects to 2X RAS for

Windows XP Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was release to manufacturing, released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct upgrade to its predecessors, Wind ...

Windows 7 Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became generally available on October 22, 2009. It is the successor to Windows Vista, released nearl ...

Windows 8 Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012; it was subsequently made available for download via MSDN and TechNet on August 15, 2012, and later to ...

and Windows 8.1.

2X Mobile Device Management

2X MDM was a

platform targeted at the

BYOD Bring your own device (BYOD )—also called bring your own technology (BYOT), bring your own phone (BYOP), and bring your own personal computer (BYOPC)—refers to being allowed to use one's personally owned device, rather than being required to u ...

market. It was available as a hosted (

SaaS Software as a service (SaaS ) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS is also known as "on-demand software" and Web-based/Web-hosted software. SaaS is co ...

) or as an on premises solution.

References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.2x.com Software companies of Malta Remote administration software Remote desktop Virtualization software