Cisco and Citrix have announced expansion of their successful desktop virtualization partnership into three strategic areas— cloud networking, cloud orchestration, and mobile workstyles.
The two companies believe the IT industry is on the verge of the next major architectural transition—the mobile-cloud era. To help enterprise and service provider customers capture the market transition and transform their business models, Cisco and Citrix will collaborate to unify best-of-breed technologies into innovative solutions for the mobile-cloud era.
Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Cisco, said, “As IT enters the mobile-cloud era, IT providers need to be more innovative about addressing customers’ fast changing needs. Over the past two years, Cisco and Citrix have collaborated to deliver significant innovation into the market. Now we are excited to accelerate our partnership into cloud, networking and mobility.”
The extended partnership will include a significant investment in people and resources to drive market-leading technology innovation, solution integration and validation, customer support, and joint go-to-market investment on a global basis.
“Citrix and Cisco share a common vision of computing in the mobile and cloud era, and have a strong shared culture focused on openness, user experience and a relentless commitment to customer success. Extending our successful partnership to new areas like cloud, mobility and networking will allow us to bring some amazing new innovations to our joint customers in both the enterprise and service provider markets,” said Wes Wasson, Senior Vice President of Strategy, Citrix.