Citrix Workspace is coming soon to provide enterprises with greater flexibility and choice

The competition in cloud computing has already taken shape, and the competition will intensify. On May 21, Citrix announced plans to expand Citrix® Workspace™ to Google Cloud, which will expand the flexibility and options for enterprises to transition to the cloud by delivering applications to Google devices and operating systems quickly and efficiently, and create an excellent digital work experience to unleash productivity and innovation.

“As organizations move more applications to the cloud, they need a simple, secure way for employees to access those applications anywhere, anytime, on any device,” said David Henshall , president and CEO of Citrix . “The launch of Citrix Workspace for Google Cloud helps customers accelerate their digital transformation and provide their users with a simple, intuitive experience.”

“Many of our customers have investments in existing software and infrastructure, but they want the freedom to invest in their cloud future,” said Rob Enslin, president of global customer operations at Google Cloud. “By expanding our partnership with Citrix, we can better help customers transform their business by enabling them to access and run the applications their business relies on from anywhere in a simple, flexible and secure way.”

Powerful productivity platform

For enterprises using Google Cloud, extending Citrix Workspace beyond Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops will help enterprises modernize their applications and provide unified access across Google devices and operating systems, creating a powerful productivity platform for employees and IT management.

For example, Citrix's plan to interoperate with Google Cloud Identity will allow users accessing Citrix Workspace to use G Suite certificates for seamless authentication, providing a more secure and unified end-user experience. In addition, the integration of intelligent functions with G Suite will help companies automatically notify employees of important events in their Google calendars through the personalization features of Citrix Workspace. By reducing the barriers caused by constantly switching applications and searching for information, employee engagement and work efficiency can be improved, creating a simpler and smarter experience.

“With Citrix and Google Cloud Platform, we have the opportunity to create an amazing work experience that will have a huge impact on productivity and employee satisfaction,” said Mari Wasström, Head of IT Solution Service Management at Neste. “Instead of a Finland-based solution, we now have a unified philosophy that can be deployed to branches around the world, providing users with a fast and secure user experience for cloud applications.”

Enterprise-level Virtual Device Interface (VDI)

With Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Machine Creation Service (MCS), IT departments can quickly and efficiently provision Windows-based Citrix workloads on a large scale and create a modern digital work environment where employees can access all the tools they need to collaborate with each other in the best way. Currently, automatic configuration of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is available on demand and will be available to all customers in the third quarter of 2019. Citrix's Linux virtual desktops will also soon support running on GCP.

Highly reliable application delivery

To keep users engaged and productive, businesses need to ensure their infrastructure is always online. This requirement is challenging in a hybrid cloud environment, but with Citrix Workspace for Google Cloud, businesses can leverage the powerful combination of Citrix ADC and Citrix SD-WAN to optimize and secure connections when GCP delivers applications or users connect to resources.

Game Changer

We have officially entered the world of hybrid multicloud, and this reality is a game changer for the IT industry. "In the past, all the applications people needed to do their work were stored on their laptops. Now, some applications are stored locally, some are stored in the corporate data center, and some are stored in the cloud. In extending Citrix Workspace to Google Cloud, we are giving enterprises greater flexibility and choice to better deploy software as a service (SaaS), cloud and web applications to ensure that employees can participate in them in a simple and efficient way and improve productivity." Henshall pointed out.