Today at Citrix
Synergy™, Cisco and Citrix announced they are bringing their
industry-leading technologies together in a tested and validated
enterprise mobility infrastructure solution. The Cisco®
Mobile Workspace Solution with Citrix - including the new Citrix
Workspace Suite™ also announced today at Synergy - simplifies how
organizations provide highly secure and optimized access to apps, data,
communications and services on any device from networked locations.
As enterprises and government institutions of all sizes mobilize their
workforce, they need an effective and flexible mobility infrastructure
based on highly diverse technologies that work in sync. Cisco Mobile
Workspace Solution with Citrix is the first end-to-end solution on the
market to deliver a complete mobility platform by incorporating Citrix
Workspace Suite. Cisco and Citrix are expanding their existing joint
portfolio of solutions and go-to-market activities around desktop
virtualization, cloud services and networking to mobile workspaces.
Together, they are working to help organizations mobilize employees, no
matter where they are on their enterprise mobility journey.
Cisco’s leading unified access, security and computing technologies,
combined with its expertise in unified communications and collaboration,
provide a strong foundation for the joint solution. The new Citrix
Workspace Suite delivers application and desktop virtualization as well
as highly secure mobile access control and enterprise mobility
management (EMM), including enterprise file sharing. The combined
solution is customizable and can be deployed in part or comprehensively
to meet the broadest range of workstyles and business requirements.
Solution Highlights
The Cisco Mobile Workspace Solution with Citrix combines all the
technologies needed for an end-to-end enterprise mobility infrastructure
solution. Highlights include:
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Highly secure access to major applications, data and services for
employees: Regardless of application type - Windows, web,
software as a service (SaaS), native mobile, voice or video - the
combined solution helps employees easily access all of their
applications, data, collaboration services and even their personalized
desktops from any device, including tablets, smartphones, PCs, Macs or
thin clients, anywhere, anytime.
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Intelligence and performance to optimize the user experience: As
mobile device and application use increases, the solution maintains a
high-performance business application experience for employees in any
location. For example, Cisco Unified Access combines the latest
wireless and application optimization technologies to support
high-density mobile environments.
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Multiple integration points for simplified IT deployment options:
The combined solution includes multiple integration points that
simplify the process for IT and make a better experience for users.
For example, Citrix XenMobile® enterprise mobility management solution
directly integrates with the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) for
automated policy enforcement. Files, applications and services can be
accessed with greater security based on user, role, device and
location.
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Cisco Validated Design to help ensure pretested interoperability:
To simplify and accelerate implementations, a reference design
architecture will be available. It is the result of extensive testing
of the combined solution. This design architecture is a continuation
of the open ecosystem strategy for supporting customer choice shared
by both Cisco and Citrix.
Cisco Mobile Workspace Solution with Citrix meets different use cases,
workstyles, business processes and regulatory requirements. This
capability enables organizations to meet broader business mobility goals
while reducing costs, enhancing productivity and improving employee
satisfaction.
Quotes
David Bratt, director of technology services, Miami Children’s
Hospital
“Citrix and Cisco technologies have helped us build a flexible
telehealth platform that enables doctors to access, share and
collaborate around patient and medical information wherever they are.
However, technology is constantly changing, and our work doesn't stop
here. The combined Citrix and Cisco mobile workspace validated
infrastructure will provide faster, more reliable, and more
integrated deployments - an important and attractive component for us as
we look to move further along our enterprise mobility journey."
Mark Melvin, chief technology officer, ePlus Technology
“Building an effective mobility infrastructure can be very complex,
requiring a significant number of integration points as well as the time
and resources for IT organizations to coordinate on their own. The
combined Cisco and Citrix Mobile Workspace solution drastically
simplifies the entire process. In addition, it provides a repeatable
framework that allows us to tailor the solution to each customer’s
unique requirements.”
Sujai Hajela, senior vice president of Enterprise Networking Group,
Cisco
“We have been a strategic partner with Citrix for many years, and our
goal of helping customers build on their mobility initiatives is first
and foremost. Together, our solution makes it possible for employees and
end-users to access their applications and content from their user-owned
or corporate issued devices, easily and with a great degree of security.”
Sudhakar Ramakrishna, senior vice president and general manager,
Enterprise and Service Provider Division, Citrix
“Our alliance with Cisco spans many years, and as Cisco’s first mobile
workspace partner, we share a common vision of helping customers embrace
mobility by seamlessly uniting our technologies to deliver a solution
that enables better ways of working. Today, we are delivering on that
vision by offering customers a powerful solution that enhances user
experience and productivity while simplifying and securing IT
infrastructure in a cost-effective manner.”
Availability
Cisco Mobile Workspace Solution with Citrix with Cisco Validated Design
(CVD) will be available by the end of May 2014. For more information,
please contact Citrix or Cisco sales.
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About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leader in mobile workspaces, providing
virtualization, mobility management, networking and cloud services to
enable new ways to work better. Citrix solutions power business mobility
through secure, personal workspaces that provide people with instant
access to apps, desktops, data and communications on any device, over
any network and cloud. This year Citrix is celebrating 25 years of
innovation, making IT simpler and people more productive. With annual
revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more
than 330,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn
more at www.citrix.com.
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