Citrix(NASDAQ:CTXS) has announced Citrix Workspace Services, the first platform for designing, building and delivering mobile workspaces Citrix Synergy. The cloud-based platform allows partners and customers to rapidly build and offer Desktops-as-a-Service (DaaS), virtual application delivery and mobility services from any cloud. Citrix leads the DaaS market today serving over 350,000 subscribers, growing 50 per cent annually, through over 1,500 service providers who offer hosted desktops and applications. Building on this momentum, Citrix is introducing new capabilities for its partners and customers.
Citrix Workspace Services is a cloud-based platform that enables partners, enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs) to quickly and simply design and deliver mobile workspaces that allow people to work better and increase business productivity, agility and efficiency. Workspace Services builds upon a full range of Citrix technologies, including the open architecture of Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop virtual app and desktop delivery, the market-leading user experience of Citrix HDX technologies, the most robust mobility solution with Citrix XenMobile, a comprehensive data fabric with Citrix ShareFile and a global customer care service with Citrix GoToAssist.
Mitch Parker, Vice-President & General Manager, Citrix Cloud Services, said, “With Workspace Services, Citrix is building upon its leadership in DaaS to help our customers and partners more rapidly take advantage of cloud delivery to create complete mobile workspaces for their users. Workspace Services gives customers and partners what no other vendor can, a choice in clouds, the ability to deliver a wide range of workspace services, with the high-definition user experience that users have come to expect from Citrix.” Citrix Workspace Services will be available as a technology preview with cloud desktops in the second half of 2014.
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