Cloudhouse Technologies Limited today announced that its cloud application management platform, Applications Anywhere, has been verified as Citrix Ready. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix Systems, Inc. Applications Anywhere completed a rigorous verification process to ensure compatibility with Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop, providing confidence in joint solution compatibility. 

The Citrix Ready program makes it easy for customers to identify complementary products and solutions that can enhance Citrix environments. Customers can be confident that Applications Anywhere has successfully passed a series of tests established by Citrix, and can be trusted to work effectively with Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop in order to enable cloud based delivery and management of applications and to streamline application management in XenApp servers and/or images.

With Cloudhouse, Citrix Service Providers can improve their time to revenue, reduce their costs and quickly scale their customer base by offering repeatable virtualized applications that can be managed from the cloud. Cloudhouse enables Citrix Service Providers to accelerate the differentiation of their business by offering a store of solutions aligned around distinct applications, lines of business or market segments. Furthermore, on-the-fly cloud based management means Citrix Service Providers can offer highly repeatable solutions that can be multi-tenanted and customized with individual settings, for example license keys, application data or database connection strings enabling them to provide a fast and smooth on-boarding experience.

"Citrix Service Providers depend on our program to offer the resources they need to deliver the customized application and desktop environments their business customers need as a service," said Joe Vaccaro, Senior Product Line Director at Citrix Systems, Inc. "As a Citrix Ready verified application platform, Cloudhouse helps our service provider partners quickly adapt to changing customer needs and deliver the optimal virtualized applications to address evolving business requirements. By taking part in our program, Cloudhouse has enabled its customers to obtain the highest quality user experience available today, and the simplest means for making an informed product purchasing selection."

"As a member of the Citrix Ready program, we are able to offer customers intelligent solutions that combine our Applications Anywhere product with Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop," said Stuart Moore, Head of Product Management at Cloudhouse Technologies. "The offering clearly demonstrates our plans to work closely with trusted partners, through the Citrix Ready partner ecosystem, in order to provide the highest quality experience for our customers."