In the public sector, desktop computing isn’t just an IT concern—it’s mission–critical infrastructure. Every endpoint underpins how agencies deliver services, protect sensitive data, and keep essential operations running for citizens who depend on them. Yet many government organizations are still constrained by aging desktop models that struggle to balance security, cost control, user experience, and resilience. As threat surfaces expand and work becomes more distributed, the traditional approach to managing desktops is increasingly misaligned with the realities of modern public service. 

A solution for sovereign clouds

Today Citrix is announcing the Citrix Platform for Public Sector, a new solution designed for organizations that need secure access to applications and data while meeting stringent requirements, such as FedRAMP High, air-gapped deployments, or sovereign cloud mandates. Government agencies face tremendous pressure to modernize while navigating expanding cybersecurity and compliance requirements. Citrix Platform for Public Sector is designed to enable agencies to retain ownership of their cloud tenant and data, with Citrix providing engineering expertise to help build and manage the underlying infrastructure in a single-tenant model that ensures data isolation within country boundaries.

This new Citrix solution’s mission is to deliver virtual desktops, networking, and Zero Trust Network Access secure access technologies, providing ultra-secure access to applications and data. It is delivered with a fully automated deployment that complies with Citrix’s best practices and is managed entirely within the respective sovereign region, offering strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and protections designed to meet data isolation needs.

Our Citrix Co-President Sridhar Mullapudi says of this newest addition to the Citrix public sector portfolio: “Security and sovereignty are critical requirements for public sector modernization. Citrix Platform for Public Sector delivers virtual desktops, networking, and zero trust access in a single-tenant model designed for sovereign and air-gapped environments — so agencies can modernize securely while keeping control of their tenant, data boundary, and day-to-day operations.”

In the Gartner® 2025 Critical Capabilities for Desktop as a Service report, Citrix is ranked 1st across all five use cases, including remote workers, high security and compliance, high performance, custom enterprise architectures and on-premises/hybrid. In our opinion, this recognition in the report was earned through the superior user experience, security, performance, operational efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of our platform. Citrix Platform for Public Sector supports agencies with high-assurance security and operational consistency across deployment environments, including on-premises data centers and multi-cloud or hybrid approaches.

The solution also addresses a common problem in government environments: inconsistent capability delivery between commercial and classified environments.

Citrix Platform for Public Sector provides consistency regardless of where it’s deployed—supporting unclassified, secret, and top-secret networks; commercial and government clouds; sovereign clouds; edge devices; and on-premises data centers.

With Citrix Platform for Public Sector, customers have the control and assurance that only sovereign cloud tenant administrators and Citrix employees residing in their respective regions can manage day-to-day operations, including access to data centers and technical support for the Citrix Platform for Public Sector.

Availability

Citrix Platform for Public Sector is now available for Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, ThinkOn, and other sovereign, private, or commercial clouds. Find out more details about Citrix Platform for Public Sector on our TechZone blog.

Please contact your Citrix account team or Citrix partner for more information.