Cisco and Citrix have announced a significant expansion of their successful desktop virtualization partnership into three strategic areas-cloud networking, cloud orchestration, and mobile workstyles.
 
To help enterprise and service provider customers capture the market transition and transform their business models, Cisco and Citrix will collaborate to unify best-of-breed technologies into innovative solutions for the mobile-cloud era.
 
The expanded partnership will include a significant investment in people and resources to drive market-leading technology innovation, solution integration and validation, customer support, and joint go-to-market investment on a global basis.
 
"Over the past two years, Cisco and Citrix have collaborated to deliver significant innovation into the market.  Now we are excited to accelerate our partnership into cloud, networking and mobility", said Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Cisco.
 
"Extending our successful partnership to new areas like cloud, mobility and networking will allow us to bring some amazing new innovations to our joint customers in both the enterprise and service provider markets", Wes Wasson, Senior Vice President of Strategy, Citrix.
 
Joe Skorupa, Vice President, Distinguished Analyst, Gartner said, "The Nexus of converging forces of social, mobile, cloud and information is dramatically changing data center architectures and how services are delivered. The next generation network has to incorporate best-in-class application delivery controller (ADC) capabilities, integrated into a services architecture that is orchestrated at cloud-scale."