2X Software was a Maltese

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specializing in

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, remote access and Mobile Device Management. On 25 February 2015, 2X Software was acquired by Parallels, Inc. 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

remote desktop services Remote Desktop Services (RDS), known as Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 and earlier, is one of the components of Microsoft Windows that allow a user to initiate and control an interactive session on a remote computer or virtual machine ...

and

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space. With the acquisition of MDM from 3CX, the company extended its portfolio to include mobile device management. 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 Parallels, Inc. on 25 February 2015.

Products

2X Remote Application Server

2X RAS delivers virtual desktops and Windows applications hosted on

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s such as Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer,

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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

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s as pseudo

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, and remote assistance. After the acquisition by Parallels Inc., it was rebranded to Parallels RAS.

2X RDP Client

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

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, Microsoft Windows,

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and

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devices. 2X RAS delivers

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applications to any remote or local users on the major OSs. 2X RDP Client connects to 2X RAS for

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and Windows 8.1.

2X Mobile Device Management

2X MDM was a mobile device management platform targeted at the BYOD market. It was available as a hosted (

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) 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