Today at Citrix
Synergy™, Citrix announced Citrix
Workspace Services™, the first platform for designing, building and
delivering mobile workspaces. The cloud-based platform allows both
partners and customers to rapidly build and offer desktops-as-a-service
(DaaS), virtual application delivery and mobility services from any
cloud. Citrix leads the DaaS market today serving over 350,000
subscribers, growing 50 percent annually, through over 1,500 service
providers who offer hosted desktops and applications. Building on this
momentum, Citrix is introducing new capabilities for its partners and
customers. Citrix Workspace Services is a cloud-based platform that
enables partners, enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs) to
quickly and simply design and deliver mobile workspaces that allow
people to work better and increase business productivity, agility and
efficiency. Workspace Services builds upon a full range of Citrix
technologies including the open architecture of Citrix XenApp® and
Citrix XenDesktop® virtual app and desktop delivery, the market-leading
user experience of Citrix HDX™ technologies, the most robust mobility
solution with Citrix XenMobile®, a comprehensive data fabric with Citrix
ShareFile® and a global customer care service with Citrix GoToAssist®.
Today, market forces are impacting the workplace, forcing organizations
of all sizes to evolve to meet these challenges. Service providers and
enterprises need faster ways to create business value by focusing on
delivering a complete mobile workspace where apps, desktops and data
services are securely delivered to any user, on any device, over any
network. Citrix Workspace Services enables service providers and
enterprises to focus on addressing users’ complete workspace needs
rather than having to focus on the management of workspace
infrastructure. Citrix Workspace Services simplifies the creation and
delivery of mobile workspaces by automating the setup, configuration and
management of Citrix products.
Citrix Workspace Services is able to provision and deliver across a wide
range of public clouds, including the market leaders, as well as private
clouds and datacenter infrastructure. Through this unique capability
Workspace Services enables partners and customer to host their mobile
workspaces on the infrastructure cloud or datacenter of their choice.
The Citrix Workspace Services platform is built on Microsoft Azure,
leveraging capabilities such as Azure App Services, Azure Active
Directory and Azure Virtual Network, and is engineered for global
availability, massive scalability, security and reliability. Workspace
Services enables Citrix partners and customers to reduce up-front
solution costs, accelerate their projects and manage their environments
across multiple clouds.
Choice. Versatility. Extensibility. Experience.
Citrix Workspace Services gives partners and customers new levels of
choice, versatility, extensibility and experience: the choice to use
multiple public clouds, private clouds or enterprise datacenter
infrastructure; the versatility to deliver a wide range of workspace
services; the extensibility of a cloud-based platform for partners to
build differentiated solutions; and the high-definition user experience
Citrix customers have come to expect. Workspace Services provides the
following functionality:
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A Platform for Citrix Partners – Workspace Services is designed
as an extensible, multi-tenant platform for partners, including Citrix
Service Providers, system integrators and channel partners, to deliver
customer value by providing cloud-based orchestration and delivery for
Citrix technology so partners can focus on addressing end-users’
complete workspace needs.
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Ability to Deliver a Complete Mobile Workspace – Mobile
workspaces require more than just a hosted desktop or app. Users need
a complete portfolio of services, including desktops, apps, mobility
solutions and data sharing, to do their jobs. These services become
the platform for enterprises to deliver a complete mobile workspace
and for service providers to build a differentiated offering.
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Workspace Delivery on the Best Clouds – Workspace Services
integrates with the best clouds for any number of workspace needs. It
includes provisioning into the leading public clouds, private cloud
providers, and the unique ability to integrate with enterprise
datacenter infrastructure.
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Delivery with Citrix HDX Technologies – Mobile workspaces
require the best user experience across a wide range of devices and
network conditions. Only Citrix HDX technologies deliver an optimized
experience for any device for use across changing network conditions.
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Unified Experience Across Hybrid Environments – By integrating
Workspace Services with enterprise resources and existing deployments,
customers and partners can unify the user and management experience
across a hybrid cloud environment.
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Convenient Concierge Service – One-click access to a concierge
from any device or app allows subscribers to get live assistance
through their mobile workspaces. Built on the world’s largest
on-demand support platform – Citrix GoToAssist – the concierge service
addresses the critical need for supporting a superior subscriber
experience.
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User-Focused Analytics –Workspace Services includes
user-focused insights to analyze end-user experience, usage,
environment and service performance across all locations and clouds.
This gives partners and customers the ability to leverage cloud
analytics to monitor both new cloud deployments and existing
on-premises deployments and correlate issues across the environment.
Citrix Workspace Services will enable the rapid adoption of cloud-based
mobile workspaces for service providers and enterprises using the
infrastructure of their choice with the freedom to experiment and grow
without the up-front fixed costs of a traditional deployment.
Quotes
Mitch Parker, Vice President and General Manager, Citrix Cloud
Services
“With Workspace Services, Citrix is building upon its leadership in DaaS
to help our customers and partners more rapidly take advantage of cloud
delivery to create complete mobile workspaces for their users. Workspace
Services gives customers and partners what no other vendor can, a choice
in clouds, the ability to deliver a wide range of workspace services,
with the high-definition user experience that users have come to expect
from Citrix.”
Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President, Cloud & Enterprise at
Microsoft
“Citrix Workspace Services delivered on Microsoft Azure is the latest
example of our collaboration with Citrix, which has always been centered
on innovation and the success of our mutual customers and partners.
Together, we defined the virtual desktop category and now we are
collaborating on new Citrix services on Azure, which will do the same
for the cloud.”
Jeff Spagnola, Vice President, Cloud Sales at Cisco
“The Cisco Cloud is specifically designed for the delivery of
mission-critical workloads such as Citrix Workspace Services. By
offering solutions such as desktop-as-a-service, the Citrix Workspace
Services offering complements our mutual vision for an open, flexible
and scalable architecture truly built to support the Internet of
Everything.”
Rick Dehlinger, CTO at nGenx
“Citrix technologies provide nGenx a great platform for delivering
compelling services from the cloud. Citrix embracing a 'cloud first'
strategy with Workspace Services aligns with our own and the direction
the cloud-based platform is headed should ultimately give nGenx more
opportunity to focus on what we do best - solving the hard problems for
our partners and customers.”
Availability
Citrix Workspace Services will be available as a technology preview with
cloud desktops in the second half of 2014.
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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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