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Citrix and Microsoft Align to Help Businesses Embrace Digital Transformation with Cloud and Mobility
As businesses today face
tectonic shifts within the global economy, success is increasingly
defined by the ability to optimize the information surrounding people,
organizations and devices. Today at Citrix
Synergy, Citrix and Microsoft (News - Alert) unveiled an expansion of their
strategic partnership to meet the needs of the modern workforce with
application and desktop virtualization in the cloud, network delivery
and enterprise mobility management. From the keynote stage today, Kirill
Tatarinov, CEO of Citrix, accompanied by a special video address from
Satya Nadella (News - Alert), CEO of Microsoft, announced that Citrix has selected
Microsoft Azure as its preferred and strategic cloud for its future
roadmap. This partnership will empower joint customers to capitalize on
the convergence of cloud, mobile and big data and drive digital
transformation in their organizations. In addition, Citrix and Microsoft
are working together on new integrations between Citrix XenMobile,
NetScaler and the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS), based on
customer demand.
"Companies of all sizes across all industries around the world have an
amazing opportunity to embrace digital transformation and empower their
people to work productively from anywhere at any time," said Kirill
Tatarinov, president and CEO of Citrix. "Our customers are asking Citrix
and Microsoft to work closer together to help them fully leverage
innovations like Windows 10, Office 365 and Azure. This enhanced
partnership ensures we can be more agile in responding to our customers'
needs and help them accelerate the move to digital business."
Accelerating the Move to Windows 10
As part of the expanded partnership, Microsoft and Citrix will offer
customers flexible options to deploy Windows 10 Enterprise within their
organizations. Later this year, Citrix will offer customers who have
licensed Windows 10 Enterprise (Current Branch for Business) on a
per-user basis the option to manage their Windows 10 images on Azure
through its XenDesktop VDI solution. This will help customers deploy
virtual apps or desktops and accelerate Windows 10 adoption for those
customers who are using Microsoft cloud solutions. To support the
testing of custom-built corporate apps on this advanced operating
system, Citrix customers can use AppDNA to accelerate their migration to
Windows 10 by providing application lifecycle management tools to
discover and resolve application compatibility issues.
Enabling Productivity in the Cloud with Office 365
Together, Citrix and Microsoft are enabling companies to realize the
collaboration and communications benefits of Office 365. Customers will
be able to take advantage of an optimized Skype for Business "dial-tone"
level of experience delivered with the high security of Citrix XenApp
and in XenDesktop virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments.
XenApp also allows customers to run the full versions f Office 365,
including Office plugins and macros giving customers more complete usage
of their Office 365 subscriptions.
Expanding Enterprise Mobility Capabilities
To further help companies deliver great productivity experiences for
their employees, while enabling IT professionals to help protect company
data across both cloud and on-premises applications, Citrix and
Microsoft are integrating Citrix XenMobile and NetScaler with the
Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS.)
Citrix NetScaler will integrate with EMS to provide virtual private
network capabilities for more secure, identity-based access to
on-premises applications on Microsoft Intune-managed devices. This will
give customers a broad array of options for managing access to
on-premises applications in an increasingly mobile-first world.
In addition, the Citrix Worx Mail and Forms applications, ShareFile
enterprise file share and sync and Citrix Receiver will support EMS, so
that customers can manage and secure these mobile app experiences using
the same mobile application management capabilities used to manage
Office 365 and SAP Fiori apps.
"Our relationship with Citrix has always been founded on the commitment
to making our mutual customers successful by empowering their people to
be more productive," said Scott Guthrie (News - Alert), executive vice president of
Cloud and Enterprise at Microsoft. "By selecting Azure as its preferred
and strategic cloud, Citrix is helping companies mobilize their
workforces to succeed in today's highly competitive, disruptive and
global business environment." Read the Microsoft blog post about today's
news here.
This agreement provides enterprises with more reasons than ever to
partner with Citrix and Microsoft, in order to optimize productivity
across all devices that modern users demand, while ensuring enhanced
compliance, manageability and IT cost efficiency.
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About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) aims to power a world where people, organizations
and things are securely connected and accessible to make the
extraordinary possible. Its technology makes the world's apps and data
secure and easy to access, empowering people to work anywhere and at any
time. Citrix provides a complete and integrated portfolio of
Workspace-as-a-Service, application delivery, virtualization, mobility,
network delivery and file sharing solutions that enables IT to ensure
critical systems are securely available to users via the cloud or
on-premise and across any device or platform. With annual revenue in
2015 of $3.28 billion, Citrix solutions are in use by more than 400,000
organizations and over 100 million users globally. Learn more atwww.citrix.com.
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