Telecom Lead at Citrix Synergy: CA Technologies and Citrix are partnering to assist enterprises and service providers to increase productivity.

They will be providing additional management and monitoring capabilities on top of Citrix cloud and desktop virtualization solutions.

The two companies focus on leveraging CA Technologies management solutions to provide insight and control of public and private clouds built on Citrix Cloud Platform technologies.

“Enterprises and service providers find high value in open source as a means of integrating heterogeneous systems into complex and hybrid cloud applications,” said Peter Christy, principal, Internet Research Group. “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,” said Peter Griffiths, executive vice president, Enterprise Solutions and Technology Group, CA Technologies.

“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,” said Gordon Payne, senior vice president of Solutions, Citrix.

By combining the advanced cloud management, automation and performance management from CA Technologies with Citrix cloud platform, 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,” said Rolf Strotmann, vice president of Enterprise Server & Software, Fujitsu Technology Solutions.

CA Technologies automation solutions’ support for Citrix XenDesktop will expand Fujitsu’s consulting approach for seamless management and automation of data center and client devices. With the integration of virtual clients in CA Client Automation, Fujitsu can now offer both physical and virtual provisioning as part of ManageNow.

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