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Citrix Expands Nutanix Support for Scalable VDI Delivery

Citrix

Business Honor
20 May, 2025

Citrix enhances support for Nutanix Cloud Platform to boost scalable, secure virtual desktop and app delivery.

Citrix, a Cloud Software Group business unit, has introduced new features designed to improve virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and secure application delivery by strengthening support for the Nutanix Cloud Platform. The addition involves support for multi-cluster environments that are being managed via Nutanix Prism Central, which runs on Nutanix AHV hypervisor. Citrix further announced that its NetScaler VPX solution now supports Nutanix AHV, providing organizations with a better-integrated and scalable digital workspace experience.

With native integration with Prism Central, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops™ can now be managed centrally in many Nutanix AHV clusters. Centrally managing Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops improves scalability, automates processes, and provides guaranteed policy enforcement. Citrix's goal is to provide greater agility, productivity, and cost savings, while alleviating vendor lock-in, allowing customers to run across hybrid and multicloud environments, including Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) running on Azure and AWS.

Abhilash Verma, Chief Product Officer at Citrix, emphasized the strategic value of the collaboration, stating, “Citrix support for Nutanix Prism Central improves the user experience across customers’ virtual desktop environments. The integration simplifies operations and enhances both security and performance.”

The most important benefits of the Citrix-Nutanix integration are simplified management of scaled images, enhanced resource usage through AHV versioned templates, and support for running VDI workloads on on-premises, cloud, or hybrid infrastructures. NetScaler VPX support also further fortifies Citrix as a complete application delivery and security solution in today's hybrid workspaces.

As per Thomas Cornely, SVP of Product Management, Nutanix, the alliance "provides more choice and simpler operations" as business houses look for strong and secure digital workspaces. With such developments, Citrix is strengthening its focus on providing flexible, secure, and efficient digital infrastructure to enterprise customers globally.