Citrix Delivers Cloud Simplicity without Sacrificing IT Control
August 20 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Citrix Workspace Cloud Now Available, Customers
Confirm Faster, Easier Deployment of Apps, Data and Mobility
Services on Any Infrastructure, Private or Hybrid Cloud
At Synergy, Citrix previewed Citrix Workspace Cloud, showing the
first cloud platform that will enable IT to cope with the
increasing pressure to provide IT resources on demand to their user
community. Citrix Workspace Cloud enables business productivity by
providing IT with the fastest and easiest way to manage and
securely deliver apps and data from their choice of cloud or hybrid
infrastructure. After enabling thousands of channel partners and
customers to test-drive the product, and after providing early
access to trial customers, Citrix is making Workspace Cloud
generally available with service packages available for production
deployments.
Since May 2015, thousands of customer and partner test drives
and trials have provided feedback to ensure the services are
simple, fast and easy to deploy, while delivering a superior,
intuitive user experience. Initial Citrix Workspace Cloud trials
have yielded accolades highlighting how Citrix Workspace Cloud
makes desktop virtualization rollouts faster and easier. In some
cases, administrators have been able to stand up a complete Citrix
virtual desktop environment for approximately 50 users in a matter
of minutes. The cloud-based platform simplified the virtual app and
desktop deployment process by eliminating the need to build the
hosting infrastructure and configure the virtual app and desktop
components.
Most cloud services put management and workloads in one cloud
for their convenience, forcing IT to relinquish control of workload
location. Citrix Workspace Cloud counters that approach with a
unique control-plane architecture that keeps IT in control of where
to deploy and run workloads. Additionally, by delivering all
management via the cloud, Citrix Workspace Cloud gives channel
partners increased flexibility to add services to their portfolio.
The platform makes it even easier and faster for them to design and
deploy customized solutions.
The ability for IT to choose the public or private cloud
infrastructure that meets their unique needs is critical: According
to the Forrester Research Business Technographics® Global
Infrastructure Survey, Q3 2014 at least 14 leading cloud vendors
currently dominate the cloud computing market, but offer different
technical and delivery strengths.1 Citrix Workspace Cloud is unique
in its ability to support all of these platforms.
More than 70 percent of Citrix Workspace Cloud trial
participants surveyed have indicated plans to use the platform to
migrate resources to the cloud, and manage application and data
workloads running in more than one cloud or datacenter
infrastructure location.
Citrix Workspace Cloud is now available with the following
service packages:
- Virtual Desktops: a low-cost
package for the monthly equivalent of $20 per user for IT to
securely deliver any type of virtual desktop to any device with the
best user experience. Unlike other virtual desktop services, this
package offers the flexibility to deliver Windows or Linux hosted
shared and VDI desktops. Included are file, sync and share services
and predefined blueprints for fast, reliable deployment.
- Virtual Apps and Desktops: a
comprehensive package for the monthly equivalent of $35 per user
for IT to deliver Windows and Linux applications, browsers and
desktops to any device with exceptional security, performance and
deployment flexibility. This service package also includes
extensive features to design, edit and deploy app and desktop
blueprints, and to efficiently monitor and manage deployments,
along with file, sync and share services.
- Integrated Apps and Data Suite:
an integrated workspace package for the monthly equivalent of $40
per user that includes all of the capabilities of the Virtual Apps
and Desktops Services package, plus mobile device and app
management, and productivity apps.
- Lifecycle Management:
operational packages that include the full complement of features
to design, edit and deploy app and desktop blueprints, and
efficiently monitor and manage deployments. The entry-level package
is available at no charge to Citrix customers that are current with
Software Maintenance. Other Lifecycle Management packages begin at
the monthly equivalent of $2.50 per user.
Jesse Lipson, Vice President & General Manager, Citrix
Workflow and Workspace Cloud
“With Citrix Workspace Cloud, we are opening up virtualization
and VDI to a whole new range of customers, for whom it was too
complex or too expensive for in the past. Citrix Workspace Cloud
stands apart as the only delivery platform that provides partners
and customers with their choice of any cloud and range of hybrid
and on-premises infrastructures, a degree of flexibility that is
unmatched in the industry.”
Steve White, Program Director, IDC Channels &
Alliances
“The inevitable move from on premise to cloud is something that
all vendors are having to address with their solutions and partner
ecosystem. Citrix solutions have been moving with the market, which
is illustrated by the availability of Citrix Workspace Cloud to
their customers and via their partner channel. IDC has always been
impressed with how thoughtful Citrix are with their partner
ecosystem, and the availability of this new offering with a strong
partner focus is another thoughtful step. We’ll be interested to
hear how partners and customers respond.”
Related Links
- Citrix Blog: Now Available: Workspace
Cloud Changes Everything
- Citrix Blog: Citrix Workspace Cloud - A
Partner-First Cloud Services Model
- Citrix Blog: Radically Simplify
Management of Citrix Workloads and Enterprise Application
Lifecycles
- Video: Citrix Workspace Cloud – How It
Works
- Citrix Workspace Cloud: Overview
- Citrix Workspace Cloud: Service
Packages
- Citrix Workspace Cloud: How to Buy
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Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is leading the transition to
software-defining the workplace, uniting virtualization, mobility
management, networking and SaaS solutions to enable new ways for
businesses and people to work better. Citrix solutions power
business mobility through secure, mobile workspaces that provide
people with instant access to apps, desktops, data and
communications on any device, over any network and cloud. With
annual revenue in 2014 of $3.14 billion, Citrix solutions are in
use at more than 400,000 organizations and by over 100 million
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1 Forrester Research, Inc., Business Technographics® Global
Infrastructure Survey, Q3 2014 December 2014
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