Citrix and Cisco have enjoyed a great strategic alliance partnership for the past 10 years, starting with the release of Cisco UCS in 2009. It’s now 2019, and we’ve expanded the partnership to deliver a modern digital platform for today’s workforce — a platform that empowers productivity in any location with world-class scale, support, security, and management. With our solutions, you can innovate with confidence and transform the way your organization works.

One of the highlights of our alliance partnership is Citrix’s participation in Cisco Live 2019, which this year is in San Diego from June 9 to 13. Citrix is proud to be a Gold Sponsor.

Less than two weeks ago, we wrapped up Citrix Synergy in Atlanta, where we shared our vision for a better way to work and to empower your workforce. We call it the future of work, and now we’re bringing it to Cisco Live 2019. Citrix is building a platform for the workspace of the future, and it’s one where our customers can boost productivity, engage consumers, and empower their people with a flexible and secure platform that lets them connect, collaborate, and innovate anywhere, on any application, on any device, on any cloud, at any time.

Why is that important?

There’s a flexible and dynamic workforce revolution coming. The ratio of remote and mobile workers is now equal to those in a traditional office environment. Even traditional office workers now need to work remotely some during the week. By next year, about 50 percent of workers will be remote for at least some portion of their workday, and the typical worker will work from four or more locations in any day.

This new generation of workers expects more meaning and autonomy from work. They crave technology that is powerful and intuitive and that anticipates their needs and delivers a great experience. Their expectations of work, devices, apps, and security have changed, and businesses must adapt to meet those changing expectations. Their work has become more complex than ever, and they want a unified experience, not point solutions. The workforce is evolving, and in this new age your work tools need to follow you and adapt to your environment and to the work you need to get done.

So how do we do that?

The answer is that we give businesses a technology-agnostic approach to integrate, manage, and secure every new device and service — even those that don’t exist yet — with a software-defined perimeter for work with no walls. Your workplace is now a secure, digital workspace. As work becomes increasingly independent of place, the transition to these digital workspaces requires an intelligent, software-defined perimeter that secures your organization’s infrastructure, empowers your customers and employees, and gives IT flexible control.

The result? Not only will you be able to attract the new generation of employees to your organization, you will be in a better position to keep them motivated and empowered. Your employees are what will drive your competitive advantage.

What makes our vision for the future of work even more exciting is how closely it aligns with Cisco’s Unified Communications and Collaboration vision and strategy, especially when it comes to delivering better customer experiences. For years now, the Citrix and Cisco partnership has delivered world-class solutions based on our compute, networking and VDI solutions. Today, we are committed to taking the partnership to a higher level, where our combined solutions create workspaces that are even more intuitive, collaborative and productive.

At Synergy 2019 in Atlanta, Citrix announced the next step in that direction with the introduction of intelligence capabilities in the Citrix Workspace.

What Is an Intelligent Workspace?

Citrix VP of Marketing, Calvin Hsu described it this way: “A digital workspace becomes an intelligent workspace when it moves beyond organizing apps and data to guide and, ultimately, automate work. To do this, you have to get out of the mindset of simply delivering applications and making the user hunt and peck for the right menus, screens, and commands. You have to extract the relevant actions from those applications and use insights to prioritize them and present them to the employee in a simple way so they can get work done in the most efficient way possible.”

The intelligent workspace becomes more intuitive when you add the capabilities that Cisco provides in their WebEx and WebEx Teams. Both help create the amazing experiences that employees are looking for.

A great user experience is top of mind for both Citrix and Cisco; but just as important are security and analytics. We offer a comprehensive set of security and analytics solutions that secure the digital workspace perimeter from the end user to the data center and the network behind it, together with Citrix Analytics and Cisco Tetration, providing vital statistics behind the user experience from L2-L7. And did you know that Cisco Duo Security is Citrix Ready verified for multi-factor authentication and end-point security with Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway?

All this is nice, but you may be asking, “When does the future of work get here?” The good news is that you don’t have to wait. As we announced at Citrix Synergy, these solutions are either already available or will be shortly. Or, as Cisco proudly proclaimed at Synergy, the future of work is today.

If you are one of the more than 28,000 expected attendees of Cisco Live 2019, here’s what you can expect to see from Citrix. First, look for us in booth #1213 in the World of Solutions Hall. It’s here where you’ll see the future of work up close — Citrix Workspace with intelligent services. It’s here where you’ll learn how, together with Cisco technology, from security to collaboration to compute to networking and analytics, we are powering a better way to work.

You Don’t Want to Miss Citrix at Cisco Live 2019

Come see a demo of Cisco HyperFlex for Citrix Cloud services. In January, all HyperFlex systems began shipping “Citrix Cloud ready,” which means for any Citrix customer who would like to quickly and easily enable hybrid cloud for their Citrix Workspace, it doesn’t get any easier than this. Here’s a preview.

See Citrix ADC for Cisco ACI in action. Together, Citrix ADC and Cisco ACI solve a data center’s most pressing infrastructure and network management problems by providing a solution that integrates L4-L7 load balancing, alleviates overhead and sprawl, scales as demand fluctuates, and ensures future compatibility in competitive business environments.

And on Tuesday June 11 at 12:40 pm, be sure to check out Allen Furmanski’s Think Tank session, “Citrix Cloud comes to Cisco HyperFlex.” Allen will provide an under-the-hood view of how HyperFlex and Citrix Cloud work together to make hybrid-cloud workspaces easy. Look for Think Tank #1, near the Citrix booth.

Citrix and Cisco have created a centralized hub — www.accelerateandsimplify.com — where you can read about and download information on all of our joint solutions.

Finally, for an interesting and entertaining preview of Citrix at Cisco Live 2019, don’t miss our man-on-the street, SeanDo On The Go, and his Cisco Live 2019 Top 5 List:

Cisco Live is right around the corner and Citrix will be there in a big way. Come by the Citrix booth and say hello and check out all these great new solutions. We look forward to seeing our many joint customers and partners for what we are sure will be an amazing event.