Citrix and NVIDIA partner to deliver AI Virtual Workstations

As we head into the second half of our week at Citrix UNITE, our annual sales kickoff event happening in New Orleans, LA, the good times keep rolling and so do the exciting announcements. Following yesterday’s news, today we have another exciting announcement around our joint collaboration with NVIDIA, the world leader in artificial intelligence computing. Together we are delivering artificial intelligence (AI) virtual workstations built on NVIDIA Virtual GPU (vGPU), empowering forward-thinking enterprises to develop and prototype AI applications more securely and cost-effectively than ever before.

Strengthening your AI strategy with Citrix

Evolving from the early days of AI, more use cases are being unleashed into the enterprise than ever before. In fact, over 50% of companies are already deploying generative and predictive AI. Now, Citrix customers can deploy NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation along with Citrix DaaS™, supporting efforts to accelerate the development, prototyping, and delivery of AI apps, all while ensuring security, cost savings, scalability, and performance.

How it works

While many enterprises are currently in the process of prototyping dozens of AI applications, concerns about data residency, security, and cost often emerge at some point in the proof of concept (POC) phase, slowing both production deployments and the ability to realize business value. And it makes sense, as it can be expensive developing AI apps, not to mention a very time-consuming process with significant security and compliance requirements. Customers in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, and government have looked to Citrix for over 35 years to address challenges like this. With this partnership, Citrix is once again the key platform to accelerate and drive business agility, now for AI. 

Bringing together Citrix DaaS and the NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation solves these challenges, allowing you to securely develop and deliver AI POCs and applications within your existing, secure infrastructure. Doing this minimizes the risk of proprietary information leaking out into public large language models (LLMs), and uses existing GPUs to significantly minimize costs. 

This integration allows you to take advantage of Citrix’s AI-ready solutions by:

• Securing your AI development work: Leverage advanced security policies, such as zero-trust network access (ZTNA), already offered in the Citrix® platform, to safeguard AI models and enhance platform observability, protecting AI systems from potential threats.
• Leveraging AI workload isolation: Gain control of outbound network communications, reducing attack surfaces, malicious software, and malware spread by running in isolated virtualized environments.
• Experiencing cost and time savings, with scalability: Consolidate costs and get started faster, avoiding GPU supply chain lines, by virtualizing existing GPU resources and providing AI developers with secure, high-performance computing and GPU workloads to scale.

The immediate benefits to Citrix customers

If you are one of our many customers already running Citrix DaaS on servers with NVIDIA GPUs, this partnership allows you to leverage your existing Citrix environments to more securely and cost-effectively prototype, POC, and roll out AI applications with NVIDIA GPUs. 

With this partnership, you are now able to approach your AI application strategy with:

• More confidence than ever: Rest assured that data and proprietary information will be protected and not leak out into public LLMs.
• Additional value in your GPU investment: Develop, prototype, and run POCs for AI apps in a more cost-effective way by leveraging the GPUs already running in your existing Citrix environment. This can also eliminate the time that IT needs to validate a new platform for AI.
• Enhanced security: Allow users to interact with production AI apps within the Citrix platform to ensure secure access.

Investing to meet your needs

As AI continues driving more initiatives and strategies across the enterprise, Citrix is here to support the workforce of the future. This partnership with NVIDIA helps make this possible, and we could not be more excited to introduce this technology into your Citrix environment. 

Learn more about this announcement via our press release, and stay tuned for more exciting updates as we continue making our way through 2025, and beyond.