<p>Citrix and Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday confirmed a strategic alliance through which they will jointly develop products and channel strategies, as well as offer reference architectures for integrating their respective application delivery and network security capabilities as whole solutions.</p><p>It's a partnership designed to provide partners and customers what Chris King, Palo Alto Networks director of product marketing, called a "unified front." It's also a not-so-subtle bid to counter the market momentum of F5 Networks, which competes with both companies.</p><p>"I think the important thing here is that Citrix offers a holistic view of application delivery networking and we have a holistic view of network security," King told CRN. "It doesn't matter what type of application infrastructure, on-premise, virtual, what device the end user might be using. It can be delivered by Citrix and secured by Palo Alto Networks."</p><p>[Related: Former F5 Sales Chief Lands At Palo Alto Networks]</p><p><a href="http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240008342/palo-alto-networks-citrix-ally-for-major-channel-offensive.htm">Keep reading...</a></p>