Oct 172012 |
CA Technologies and Citrix Team to Simplify and Accelerate the Adoption of Cloud ServicesCA Technologies Enterprise–class Management Solutions to Support and Integrate with Citrix Cloud and Desktop Virtualization Technologies |
ISLANDIA, N.Y. and BARCELONA, Spain – Today at Citrix Synergy™, the conference where mobile workstyles and cloud services meet, CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) and Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) announced that they are partnering to help enterprises and service providers increase agility and productivity by providing additional management and monitoring capabilities on top of Citrix cloud and desktop virtualization solutions. Cloud InfrastructureThe first area of collaboration between the two companies focuses on leveraging CA Technologies management solutions to provide in-depth insight and control of public and private clouds built on Citrix CloudPlatform technologies. This focus will initially include the following:
Desktop VirtualizationThe second area of collaboration focuses on leveraging CA Technologies management solutions to provide consistent lifecycle management, monitoring, and service level visibility for Citrix virtual app and desktop solutions. This focus will initially include the following:
Now more than ever, enterprises and service providers find high value in open source as a means of integrating heterogeneous systems into complex and hybrid cloud applications. This partnership brings together purpose-built technologies that are proven leaders in their respective Cloud and Systems Management segments.
The collaboration with Citrix is focused on enabling IT to deliver quality services across Citrix CloudPlatform and Citrix XenDesktop environments. We look forward to working with Citrix to deliver end-to-end performance management and automation for Citrix-centric clouds, data center and network environments.
We are excited to have the market share leader in the worldwide cloud systems management software market, as ranked by IDC*, working with us to achieve success with our largest enterprise and cloud service-provider customers. By combining the advanced cloud management, automation and performance management from CA Technologies with our leading cloud platform, our joint customers will have the tools and capabilities that they need to efficiently run their cloud operations.
We welcome the news that two of our key technology partners are working together to accelerate virtual desktop deployments. CA Technologies automation solutions’ support for Citrix XenDesktop will expand our consulting approach for seamless management and automation of the entire range of data center and client devices, whether physical or virtual. With the integration of virtual clients in CA Client Automation, Fujitsu can now offer both physical and virtual provisioning as part of ManageNow®. This integration enables Fujitsu to take the next step in efficient management and automation using a minimal toolset – to the benefit of our customers.
CA Technologies at Citrix SynergyCA Technologies will demonstrate its current and planned support for Citrix CloudPlatform and Citrix XenDesktop in booth #306 at Citrix Synergy in Barcelona (October 17-19), where the company is a gold sponsor. For additional information about the CA Technologies solutions that support Citrix CloudPlatform and Citrix XenDesktop deployments, visit www.ca.com/citrix. *IDC, Worldwide Cloud Systems Management Software 2011 Vendor Shares: Market Moves Beyond Self-Service, Doc #236556 August 2012. About CitrixCitrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) transforms how businesses and IT work and people collaborate in the cloud era. With market-leading cloud, collaboration, networking and virtualization technologies, Citrix powers mobile workstyles and cloud services, making complex enterprise IT simpler and more accessible for 260,000 organizations. Citrix products touch 75 percent of Internet users each day and it partners with more than 10,000 companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2011 was $2.21 billion. Learn more at www.citrix.com. For Citrix Investors
| We look forward to working with Citrix to deliver end-to-end performance management and automation for Citrix-centric clouds, data center and network environments.
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