Citrix and Microsoft Align to Help Businesses Embrace Digital Transformation with Cloud and Mobility
May 24 2016 - 12:51PM
Business Wire
Combined Solutions to Accelerate Move to Azure
Cloud, Windows 10 and Office 365; Advance Security, Cloud and
Mobility Strategies
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 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, 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 of 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, 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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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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