Citrix and Nutanix have enjoyed a long-standing partnership spanning over a decade. From the early days of Nutanix’s pioneering work in the hyperconverged space, it was clear that their approach of consolidation and simplification aligned well to running Citrix VDI environments efficiently and at scale. Numerous customers around the globe trust their mission-critical workloads to Citrix and Nutanix every day — customers like JetBlue Airways, Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation, educational institutions such as Coleg Gwent, and across other vertical industries including healthcare, legal and more.

Today, Citrix Cloud services on Nutanix unlocks the possibility of true hybrid and multi-cloud use cases. It starts with Citrix Cloud as the management plane for the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service, Citrix Gateway service, insights with Citrix Analytics, and other services — all delivered on-demand across the GEOs. Nutanix provides the underlying hosting and orchestration fabrics for the workloads — whether on-premises with AHV or in a public cloud like Azure or AWS. The flexibility to shift workloads among public and private clouds, coupled with linear scalability, gives customers the predictability and confidence they need to succeed in this highly unpredictable economic climate.

On September 21, 2021, Nutanix and Citrix announced the next phase of the ongoing partnership at Nutanix’s .NEXT virtual conference. There are two key takeaways from the announcement:

Nutanix will become a Citrix preferred choice for HCI hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. The Nutanix Cloud Platform delivers an ideal environment to support Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops services in a hybrid multi-cloud capacity. Customers will be able to take advantage of Nutanix industry leading HCI 一 whether on-premises or in the public cloud 一 delivering simplicity, cost advantages, and a unified management plane enabling workload portability across clouds.

Citrix will become the preferred enterprise end-user computing solution on the Nutanix Cloud Platform. Citrix Cloud services and the Citrix Workspace will enable the capabilities for Nutanix customers with the architectures, networking, and related services including leading security and policy control built-in. This will serve as a key aspect of digital workspace solutions and work from anywhere initiatives for organizations.

At Citrix, we’re excited about this announcement and what it means for both current and prospective customers looking to deliver hybrid and multi-cloud app and desktop solutions. It strengthens an already strong partnership with tighter collaboration planned between joint teams including product management and engineering. We encourage you to browse the resources below and reach out to your trusted Citrix and Nutanix sales and partner teams to learn more.