This blog post was co-authored by Jeff Carlat, Senior Director Alliances, at HPE.

A few short months ago life was “normal,” and we didn’t think twice about how much our personal and professional lives revolved around close contact interaction. Today, the global COVID-19 pandemic is forcing organizations to rapidly activate plans to keep their business operating while ensuring their employees and families stay safe and secure. They are asking fundamental questions such as:

  • How can I rapidly roll out remote work capabilities at scale for my employees?
  • How do I ensure employee productivity remains high while providing a work-from-home environment without compromise of security and control?
  • How do I protect my investments so that short-term solutions can be leveraged to meet longer-term strategic imperatives?

It is in these specific times of uncertainty that HPE and Citrix can help. Our 20-year partnership was built on the promise of providing customers like you with a secure, immersive work environment that defines the workplace to be wherever you want it to be and that it should work exactly how you want it to work. We believe that a remote work environment should not come with compromises.

Executives and IT leaders can rest assured that employees can ramp up quickly, securely, and seamlessly with our proven set of remote work solutions. We offer simple management and complete control of your organization’s data, apps and systems, backed by over two decades of proven and innovative Citrix and HPE partnership and technology expertise.

Employees shouldn’t have to worry about making sure the tools and solutions you use to get your job done work well from your home office and are secure.

And wherever you are in the organization, you should feel confident that Citrix and HPE are here by your side to help your organization recover, evolve, and thrive.

How We Get It Done

In true alliance/partnership fashion, each partner contributes essential solution components.

Citrix Workspace, including Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops enables seamless remote workforce productivity, giving employees the flexibility to work from anywhere, all while keeping your apps and information secure.

HPE, as an edge-to-cloud platform-as-service company, delivers industry leading infrastructure, services and global support to power even the most business critical demands.

Together, Citrix and HPE can get your workforce working remotely at rapid speed while we also align to your forward-looking digital transformation strategic imperatives. Specifically, our alliance:

  • Enables our customers to keep their workforce secure, productive and connected now.
  • Protects investments ensuring the critical offerings needed now evolve to meet future innovation imperatives, given we have an end-to-end portfolio that spans app and desktop virtualization to workspace intelligence solutions and a robust set of advisory and operational services to get business up and running every step of the way.
  • Responds to customers who have technology from both of our companies and continue to trust us to innovate. We then work together with our customers to seamlessly deliver a cross-platform solution.

Need Help? Now?

We can immediately help you through this rapidly-evolving crisis in a variety of ways:

  1. Rapid deployment of remote work — HPE Pointnext services is now offering a range of advisory and professional services to assist customers to design, deploy and manage their remote workforce initiatives with Citrix Workspace. This includes new services to implement remote workplace options at rapid speed and scale for our customers, and enable workforces to quickly adapt to remote workplace tools and practices. Just as important, we can help you future proof your current need for sudden and secure remote work solutions. This allows you to invest smartly to permanently adapt to the longer term trends that likely will be accelerating as we emerge from the current global pandemic — the need for an agile, distributed, remote work solutions and an optimized employee experience built on secure, intelligent workspace solutions.
  2. Flexible Consumption Models for remote work — HPE is offering GreenLake VDIaaS with Citrix providing business cost effective virtualization solutions delivered as a service. This allows you to retain full control of the crucial desktop and app environment while you also benefit from as-a-service economics and pay-per-user, per-month on a consumption basis. Businesses can leverage turnkey services from HPE Pointnext to get the entire environment up and running, with ongoing support, operations, and management of the platform.
  3. Validated and integrated joint offerings for remote work — HPE is now offering a range of tested and validated virtual app and desktop solutions to support remote work initiatives for our small, medium and enterprise customers. HPE and Citrix offer a fleet of virtual app and desktop and digital workspace solutions that can start small from 80 users and scale into many thousands. These offerings span across HPE platforms including HPE SimpliVity, HPE Synergy, HPE Moonshot and HPE Edgeline and the portfolio of HPE ProLiant compute platforms, offering businesses choice based on their specific needs.

Check out our blog post HPE is here to help: Business continuity in our new normal for more information on our VDI solutions and other ways we can partner with you to achieve your goals.

Additional Ways We Can Help

Citrix and HPE are here to apply resources, technology, and talent to address the critical challenges business are facing with COVID-19 and the need to deliver and manage a sudden and secure remote workforce. Our commitment to you extends to 24×7 support, financial flexibility through HPE financial services, and committed support from our joint alliances, product, and sales and support teams.

Here’s Where to Go for Help and More Information

Let us help you in these times. For questions or more information, go to: