Emkor Solutions aligns with Citrix to deliver Desktop & Application as a Service to Small & Medium Businesses in India and emerging markets in Asia

Emkor Solutions Limited has announced a strategic alliance with Citrix to deliver Desktop and Application as a service on Citrix platform that would offer Citrix XenApp - an on demand application delivery solution, Hosted Shared Desktop and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure,to emerging and midmarket businesses in India.  As a Citrix partner, Emkor currently will deliver these solutions to Small & Medium Businesses in India and the Middle East.

Today, cloud-based DR is poised to shake up legacy approaches and has offered IT infrastructure and operations professionals a compelling alternative, data center managers are expected to allocate nearly 50 percent of their budgets to running services in the cloud (public and private) by 2013.

"SMBs in fast-growing markets such as India and emerging markets in Asia are in need of alternative and flexible IT adoption models with the influx of trends such as mobility and cloud. We believe that our comprehensive virtualization solutions complemented by Emkor's strengths of strong domain expertise and simple implementation model will augur well in meeting the demands of this segment." said, Sanjay Deshmukh, Area Vice President, India Subcontinent, Citrix.

"We are happy to announce our tie up with Citrix to offer their end to end virtualization solutions in India and Middle East. Our IT solutions and services to our customers aim to achieve maximum cost savings and profitability apart from flexible applications and usability features. This alignment will enable us tap into a rich ecosystem of partner technologies and deliver innovative & differentiated solutions to end customers" said, Vikram Dham, CEO & Co Founder, Emkor Solutions Limited.

At its core- Business Function as a Service (BFaaS) offers a pay as you go, on demand service delivery model that businesses can leverage to outsource all their critical but non-core business functions. Further it promotes mobility of workforce, which can empower businesses in attracting and retaining employees, increasing nimbleness in order to meet deadlines and reducing occupancy costs.