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To increase business agility without incurring long-term capital costs, companies around the world are embracing cloud services, while seeking secure strategies to make their journey to the cloud. To help business customers tackle these challenges and fully embrace the benefits of flexibility and scale that are possible through cloud services, Citrix, a Gold level member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced that Citrix Cloud-based XenApp and XenDesktop services are now available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.

The ability to access Citrix Cloud services like XenApp and XenDesktop on Oracle Cloud Marketplace enables business customers to provide their workforce with more secure access to critical business apps and data on any device, while taking advantage of the scale, power and reliability of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

“Deploying Citrix on Oracle Cloud gives us greater deployment flexibility for providing our clients with more secure access to Calypso apps and data,” said Corinne Grillet, Chief Customer Officer, Calypso. “In addition to XenApp, we’re able to use NetScaler Gateway, which includes extensive security enhancements and leverages the adaptability and scalability of Oracle Cloud.”

Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a one-stop shop for Oracle customers seeking trusted business applications and service providers offering unique business solutions, including ones that extend Oracle Cloud Applications. Oracle Cloud delivers enterprise-grade services at every level of the cloud technology stack including software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and data as a service (DaaS).

“Customers counting on Citrix to deliver their most critical applications, desktops and data can now leverage the power, scale and reliability of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure,” said David Hicks, vice president, Worldwide ISV, OEM and Java Business Development, Oracle. “Available on Oracle Cloud, the simplicity of these services managed through Citrix Cloud can drive tremendous business value for customers who depend on both Oracle and Citrix.”

“For Oracle customers, deploying Citrix Cloud provides greater agility in securely delivering applications and desktops as part of a hybrid cloud strategy,” said Steve Wilson, vice president for Cloud and IoT, Citrix. “Citrix participation in Oracle Cloud Marketplace further extends our commitment to the Oracle community and enables customers to easily reap the benefits of Citrix Cloud services like XenApp and XenDesktop. We see great potential for Oracle customers who use the power of Oracle Cloud to help us achieve our business goals.”

Oracle Cloud Marketplace offers an intuitive user interface to browse and search for available applications and services, as well as user ratings and reviews to help customers determine the best business solutions for their organization. With its new automated application installation features, customers can easily deploy provider business applications from a centralized cloud interface.

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Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) is Oracle's partner program that provides partners with a differentiated advantage to develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle’s products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle’s growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to be recognized and rewarded for their investment in Oracle Cloud. Partners engaging with Oracle will be able to differentiate their Oracle Cloud expertise and success with customers through the OPN Cloud program – an innovative program that complements existing OPN program levels with tiers of recognition and progressive benefits for partners working with Oracle Cloud. To find out more visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners.

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