Apprenda, the leader in enterprise platform-as-a-service (PaaS) announces today it has joined the new Citrix Ready Worx Verified Partner Program extending and promoting mobile app security and controls to the 260,000 existing Citrix enterprise customers and over 10,000 resellers via the new Citrix Worx App Gallery which will soon be launching.

Today at Citrix Synergy, the company announced a new Citrix Ready Worx Verified program and Apprenda is pleased to be an inaugural launch partner.

Under the program, enterprise applications can leverage a Citrix Worx App SDK to easily embed MDX Technology in mobile applications, centralizing IT configuration, management, security and control easily. Citrix MDX app container technology adds features like data encryption, password authentication, secure lock and wipe, inter-app policies and micro VPNs to mobile applications.

"With Citrix MDX technology, all apps and data reside in a container, separated from personal apps and data on the user's mobile device," said Steve Sieron, Senior Alliance Marketing Manager at Citrix. "Citrix is pleased to have Apprenda as part of the new Citrix Ready Worx Verified program."

"Our partnership with Citrix further extends the benefits of running mission critical applications on Apprenda's PaaS in conjunction with Citrix's MDX technology for securing these apps on the user's mobile devices," said Rakesh Malhotra, vice president of products at Apprenda. "Enterprises using private PaaS and leveraging Citrix MDX technology in the app find a comprehensive mobile strategy with the access users need and the security IT must uphold."