Citrix Virtual Apps Desktops India for VDI, DaaS, and secure remote work delivered on Citrix Cloud.
Citrix DaaS, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, NetScaler, and Citrix Endpoint Management deployed for Indian BFSI, BPO, and engineering teams. India-resident control plane optional.
Serving 200+ Indian businesses · Pan-India delivery · Citrix partner · Microsoft Partner.
Average Indian enterprise breach cost
₹19.5 Cr
per IBM’s 2024 report, and unmanaged BYOD laptops connecting to internal apps over residential broadband sit at the top of the SOC’s 2026 worry list. Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops with NetScaler keeps the data on the server, ships only pixels to the endpoint, and gives the auditor a session recording trail.
Free 8-hour Citrix sizing call
What Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops does for Indian businesses
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, now sold as Citrix DaaS on Citrix Cloud, is a session and desktop virtualisation platform that streams Windows apps and full desktops to any endpoint over the HDX protocol. For an Indian buyer, three things make it land. The HDX protocol is tuned for high-latency, low-bandwidth links, which matters when a Mumbai engineering team has staff in Bhubaneswar, Jaipur, and Surat working on patchy broadband.
We deploy Citrix for BFSI, BPO, engineering, and manufacturing teams running 100 to 5,000 desktops across head office and branch sites. Citrix is the right pick when the workload is a heavy Windows app, the team has a hybrid workforce, and the audit ask is heavy.
Citrix DaaS official docs and the Gartner DaaS Magic Quadrant both ranked the platform leader in 2025.
What sits inside the Citrix stack
Three product groups worth understanding before the sizing call. Pick the shape that matches your endpoint mix, not the catalogue that looks heaviest.
Citrix DaaS with NetScaler
Citrix DaaS on Citrix Cloud delivers Windows apps and desktops as a managed service. The Cloud Connector links to on-premise Active Directory and the workload runs on the customer’s Azure, AWS, or on-premise VMware estate. NetScaler ADC sits at the ingress and runs the load balancer, the WAF, and the Secure Private Access broker.
Per-user per-year · INR billed · Reserved discounts on three-year term
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops on-premise
Self-hosted on Citrix Site infrastructure. Useful when the buyer has heavy data-residency obligations and cannot send Cloud Connector metadata outside India. We deploy on VMware vSphere or Nutanix HCI for the underlying compute.
Perpetual or term subscription · INR billed
How Citrix India pricing works
Citrix DaaS pricing is per user per year, billed in INR with GST, and the slope depends on edition, term length, and concurrent-versus-named licensing model. We do not publish a fixed price card on this page because Citrix India MRP moves with edition tier, named-versus-concurrent licensing, and the underlying cloud or on-premise infrastructure cost. A 200-user finance team on Citrix DaaS Advanced lands at one number.
The honest framing is this. Citrix DaaS Advanced is competitive with Windows 365 Cloud PC for buyers not already on M365 E5. Citrix DaaS Premium with App Layering and session recording undercuts VMware Horizon for buyers below 1,000 users on three-year commit. The honest call lands in the user-experience review.
Citrix vs Windows 365 vs AWS WorkSpaces vs VMware Horizon
Citrix wins on heavy Windows app delivery, on the WAN-tuned HDX protocol, and on the unified session control plane that NetScaler plus Secure Private Access provide. For BFSI, engineering, and BPO buyers with hybrid-workforce ambitions, Citrix is still the cleanest answer.
How a Citrix engagement runs
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops India from Sirius Star is a procurement, architecture, master-image build, NetScaler tuning, and managed-DaaS service. We serve Indian businesses running 100 to 5,000 desktops across head office and branch sites, delivered from Vashi, Navi Mumbai. Same-week Citrix Cloud provisioning, master-image build, and a quarterly retainer are included.
A typical engagement runs in four phases:
- Free 8-hour user-experience review and sizing
- Citrix Cloud tenant provisioning and Cloud Connector in week one
- Master-image build and pilot user group in week two
- Production cutover by department in weeks three and four
- Pair with device lifecycle management for thin-client refresh
- Stitch in Microsoft Entra ID for the conditional access plane when M365 is in scope
FAQ · Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops in India for VDI, app delivery, and secure remote work.
What is Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and why does it fit Indian businesses?
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, now sold as Citrix DaaS on Citrix Cloud, is a session and desktop virtualisation platform. It streams Windows apps and full desktops to any endpoint over the HDX protocol.
What does Citrix India pricing look like in 2026?
Indian pricing is per user per year, billed in INR with GST. The slope depends on edition tier, named-versus-concurrent licensing, term length, and the underlying cloud or on-premise compute.
Citrix vs Windows 365 Cloud PC vs AWS WorkSpaces, which one fits?
Citrix wins on heavy Windows app delivery, on the WAN-tuned HDX protocol, and on the unified session control plane.
One Citrix retainer. Every desktop. Every branch.
Free 8-hour user-experience review. Read-only inventory of your current endpoint mix, application list, network topology, and audit ask. Written report inside one business day with the Citrix vs Windows 365 vs WorkSpaces split, the 24-month TCO, and the pan-India rollout calendar.
Email care@siriusstar.in · Vashi, Navi Mumbai · Pan-India delivery via standard courier partners
P.S. A BFSI head of IT in Chennai told us last quarter his branch staff were using personal laptops over residential broadband to enter customer data into the core banking app. We ran his Citrix sizing in week one. Three weeks later every branch was on a published-app session with NetScaler conditional access, session recording, and zero local data residue. The audit committee stopped asking.