Organizations everywhere are accelerating their IT modernization, working to remove complexity and to increase flexibility and control. They’re shifting infrastructure to hybrid environments, moving apps to the cloud, and consolidating access and app delivery and security solutions, all while looking to reduce costs.

During our Citrix Launchpad: Cloud session, we covered groundbreaking advances in app delivery and security; innovations in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops; new ways we’re adding value to the services of leading cloud providers; and work we’re doing with partners to help organizations manage and simplify their hybrid multi-cloud journeys and with leading cloud providers to add value to their services.

Here are highlights from the session and links where you can learn more.

Citrix App Delivery and Security Service

Our new Citrix App Delivery and Security Service is the industry’s first intent-driven solution for app delivery and security. It delivers self-healing and continuous optimization to ensure the best possible app experience. IT admins just define the intent or KPI and services translates that to policies, and policies into automated configurations. It radically simplifies the application delivery with unmatched automation, end-to-end visibility, continuous optimization, and self-healing capabilities.

It is the industry’s first app delivery service that has actionable internet visibility thanks to Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) technology integration. It offers near real-time internet state visibility through the collation and analysis of 10 billion data points a day from 1 billion real users across 50,000 networks in 200+ countries. It helps you plan, design and optimize your app delivery with internet state visibility.

And with Citrix Web App Firewall, bot management, and API security, Citrix App Delivery and Security Service provides holistic protection for your valuable apps. Citrix App Delivery and Security Service is in public preview now. Learn more in our blog post.

Citrix DaaS Innovations

We’ve delivered on some great new capabilities for Citrix DaaS this year.

  • Service continuity enables users to stay up and running as long as they have a path to connect to their virtual apps and desktops, even if they can’t connect to our cloud service.
  • We’ve extended Citrix Provisioning Services to Azure (and soon to Google Cloud), helping customers transition all their desktops and apps to the cloud at scale.
  • Citrix Image Portability gives customers a powerful new way to manage, update, and deploy a set of images from one location across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
  • We’re now providing support for Azure VMware Solution so you can easily manage and provision Citrix workloads between on-prem vSphere deployments or within VMware-based clouds.
  • We’ve integrated Citrix DaaS with ServiceNow’s Virtual Agent, enabling customers to automate resolution of common virtual session resets and removing the need for manual IT support and intervention.

Learn about these advances and more in our blog post.

Citrix and Microsoft

Citrix and Microsoft have a long history of working together and developing value in the VDI and DaaS space for customers of all sizes. We’re excited to play a part in Microsoft’s new category, CloudPC. At Citrix Launchpad: Cloud, we announced that we are working with Microsoft to create complementary solutions with Windows 365. We are currently finalizing our product plan and look forward to sharing the details of those plans when ready. In addition, we highlighted how many Citrix offerings are now available in Azure Marketplace, making it easy for you to leverage your Azure commitment for Citrix Cloud services purchase. We also highlighted our Day 1 support for Server 2022 and the upcoming Windows 11 release, as well as many other Azure integrations. Learn more in our blog post.

Citrix and Nutanix

Nutanix, together with Citrix, enables true hybrid and multi-cloud deployments to help customers deliver on-demand and elastic access to apps, desktops, and data for their hybrid workforce, from any device, in any location, at any scale. Now, Citrix is Nutanix’s preferred end-user computing solution for their cloud platform. Learn more in our blog post.

Learn More

If you didn’t get to watch the Citrix Launchpad: Cloud session, there’s no need to worry. You can visit our Citrix Launchpad: Cloud page to view all the announcements. And check out Kevin Jackson of GC GlobalNet discussing the Cloud event below.

You can also follow the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #CitrixLaunchpad. And make sure to join PJ Hough and Sridhar Mallupudi on Tuesday, November 2, for a Twitter Q&A, where they’ll discuss announcements from all three Launchpad sessions — Cloud, Security, and Work.

We also have valuable content available right now on our Citrix Launchpad: Cloud page to help you accelerate your cloud journey, including:

  • A whitepaper on Citrix App Delivery and Security Service and how it can transform your IT modernization.
  • Expert analysis from Forrester on the Total Economic Impact of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service with Microsoft Azure.
  • Insights into how your cloud strategy can create competitive advantage and how the experts at Wipro advise companies to lead with cloud strategy.
  • Links to register for our monthly App Delivery and Security Master Class and our upcoming What’s New and Next with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops webinar.

You’ll find all this on our Citrix Launchpad: Cloud page. And make sure to check out our Citrix Launchpad: Security and Citrix Launchpad: Work pages.

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