Autodesk elevates Nikhil Bagalkotkar to lead AEC in India, SAARC. Autodesk has elevated Nikhil Bagalkotkar as Head - Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC), India and SAARC, with immediate effect. In his new role, Bagalkotkar will lead Autodesk's AEC business strategy across the region and drive adoption of the company's Design and Make platform. He will also focus on promoting digital design and construction technologies to help customers accelerate innovation and deliver more sustainable and resilient infrastructure. Bagalkotkar will be responsible for expanding Autodesk's AEC business, strengthening customer and partner engagement, and accelerating digital workflows across the design, engineering and construction lifecycle. He brings nearly 20 years of experience in technology and business leadership and has been with Autodesk for seven years. Most recently, he served as Head of Technical Sales for India, working across sales, marketing, customer success and partner teams to support digital transformation across industries. Haresh Khoobchandani, Vice President, APAC & Japan at Autodesk, said Bagalkotkar's technology expertise and understanding of digital innovation would support the company's AEC strategy across India and SAARC. He added that Bagalkotkar's experience in technology adoption, digital transformation and customer and partner ecosystems would help Autodesk strengthen its partnerships and support sustainable infrastructure development across the region. Prior to Autodesk, Bagalkotkar held leadership positions at Citrix, IBM and EMC Systems, including roles in technical and business leadership and as Chief Technologist. Bagalkotkar holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow and a bachelor's degree in computer science engineering from Pune Institute of Computer Technology, Pune. 30 May 2026 13 Aug 2026 30 Jun 2026 12 Jun 2026 30 May 2026 13 Aug 2026 30 Jun 2026 12 Jun 2026 30 May 2026 13 Aug 2026

Citrix expands Platform Flex for workspace observability and secure development. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Citrix today announced new services for Citrix Platform Flex, expanding the company's flexible credit model to help enterprises simplify how they deliver, monitor and secure modern work. The new offerings include Citrix Experience Insights Flex, an observability solution managed by Citrix and powered by the Splunk Cloud Platform that transforms high-resolution workspace telemetry into actionable insight, and Citrix SecurSpaces Flex, a hosted, cloud-based platform for code development and agentic workloads that allows enterprises to provide secure environments without building and operating the platform themselves. Modern work now spans virtual desktops, physical endpoints, browser-based applications, cloud development environments, and agentic sandbox environments. As these environments grow more complex, enterprises are under pressure to improve user experience, strengthen security and streamline operations, often while relying on fragmented tools, manual correlation and separate infrastructure projects. Together, the new services address these challenges by extending Citrix's flexible, credit-based model Platform Flex offering to workspace observability, security analytics and developer workflows - building on the initial Citrix DaaS Flex offering launched in May. Under Platform Flex, organizations purchase a pool of Flex credits and consume them over time, applying credits to spin up resources when needed and scale them down as demand changes. "Enterprises are looking for simpler ways to modernize work without adding more infrastructure to manage," said Citrix Co-President Hector Lima. "With the rollout of Experience Insights Flex and SecurSpaces Flex, Citrix is helping customers operationalize workspace data faster and deliver secure developer workspaces and agentic sandboxes through our managed, flexible Platform Flex credit model - giving IT, security and platform teams a path to move faster and reduce complexity." Citrix Experience Insights Flex delivers high-resolution workspace insights. Citrix Experience Insights Flex helps organizations move from workspace telemetry to actionable insight faster across experience, performance, operational resilience and security use cases. Delivered through a Citrix-managed analytics model and powered by the Splunk Cloud Platform, the solution combines high-resolution telemetry across Citrix DaaS sessions, endpoints, applications, network connections, browser and SaaS activity and security signals into prebuilt dashboards. These day-one dashboards provide teams with a streamlined control plane to analyze data without standing up their own analytics backend. "Observability delivers the greatest value when teams can focus on insights rather than managing analytics infrastructure," said Mangesh Pimpalkhare, senior vice president and general manager of platform at Splunk, a Cisco company. "Through our collaboration with Citrix, Experience Insights Flex helps organizations operationalize workspace telemetry more quickly, giving IT and security teams access to enterprise-grade analytics and actionable visibility." The solution is designed to help teams reduce time-to-value, lower operational overhead, and improve governed access to workspace insights across teams. IT and end-user computing (EUC) teams can use the service to troubleshoot performance issues, assess the impact of operating system migrations, image upgrades and application rollouts and monitor experience across Citrix DaaS and non-Citrix desktop environments. Security teams can use the same telemetry foundation to support security investigations, validate detections, and identify configuration drift or misconfigurations. For enterprises, Citrix Experience Insights Flex reduces analytics back-end complexity by removing the need to procure, deploy, operate and govern a separate analytics backend for observability and security use cases. The solution also serves as a consistent telemetry foundation for authorized IT, EUC, operations, engineering and security stakeholders. Citrix SecurSpaces Flex accelerates developer productivity. Citrix SecurSpaces Flex extends Citrix Platform Flex's persona-based computing model to support a new additional persona for developers. Citrix SecurSpaces Flex gives enterprises a secure, hosted way to deliver developer and agentic workspaces within Citrix-managed infrastructure, providing standardized Linux-based environments for coding, building and testing. These workspaces are ideal for securely deploying agents and their harnesses with fully controlled ingress and egress. The solution reduces infrastructure management with Citrix operating the control plane, hosting, databases, workspaces, and scaling, while customers maintain control of identity, source code, policies and data. With Citrix SecurSpaces Flex, enterprises can onboard developers and their AI agents faster with governed cloud development environments and agentic sandboxes for regulated teams, contractors and AI workloads, reducing reliance on high-end developer laptops or local machines. This can help extend device lifecycles and optimize costs with compute-intensive developer workloads moving off endpoints or overprovisioned virtual desktop infrastructure into the cloud. With Citrix SecurSpaces Flex, customers can: * Accelerate onboarding and improve developer productivity by giving developers standardized cloud environments in which they can code, build and test from day one, in addition to scaling compute up or down as each task requires. * Deploy sandboxes for agents used for coding and non-coding activities under a single control plane with full observability, as well as native data loss prevention. * Reduce data, source code and credential exposure risk by moving development, machine learning and AI workloads off endpoints and into governed cloud workspaces with data loss prevention, role-based access control and audit logging - keeping sensitive data off local machines. The solution allows customers to combine Citrix DaaS and Citrix SecurSpaces workspaces through a single Flex credit pool, supporting different personas and workload needs under one flexible spending model. For example, developers can use DaaS Flex for email, productivity suites and collaboration alongside a Citrix SecurSpaces Flex workspace for code development. With Platform Flex's credit-based model, teams can right-size workspaces by persona so customers can scale developer and agentic environments up or down based on workload needs.

Announcing Citrix SecurSpaces Flex: a different operating model for modern development needs. Modern development depends on distributed teams, external contributors, and fast access to the right tools. Organizations need a way to give developers, and AI agents secure, ready-to-use environments without adding infrastructure burden, endpoint risk, or unpredictable spend. High-end laptops are costly to buy, ship, and secure. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is not aligned with the methods of modern development such as Infrastructure as code, DevOps and Platform Engineering. Meanwhile, source code, credentials, and access tokens still sit on endpoints that are hard to control. The real issue is that development environments are not one-of-kind. Personas, projects, toolchains, and security needs rarely fit one standard model. A successful developer and agentic platform must prove three things: * Lighter IT burden: Infrastructure operations are drastically reduced. * Great user experience with predictable spend: Costs remain transparent as teams and projects scale. * Zero endpoint risk: Code, data, and secrets never live on the local machine. Announcing a new approach that is purpose-built around these core pillars. Today, Citrix is announcing Citrix SecurSpaces(TM) Flex, a Citrix-managed service within Citrix Platform Flex. Citrix SecurSpaces Flex delivers a platform for developers and AI agents that integrates with internal portals and the broader DevOps and Platform Engineering ecosystem these teams already use. They can then access these environments through the interface that best fits their workflow, whether a Progressive Web App-based IDE or terminal, via SSH from their local tools, or a customer's own web application experience built on top of Citrix SecurSpaces. Citrix SecurSpaces Flex is also aligned with Gartner's emerging category of Agentic Development Sandbox Platforms and is cited as a vendor in the latest Gartner Market Guide for this category. These platforms provide secure, isolated environments where organizations can run AI coding agents with controlled access to code, tools, credentials, and networks. This matters because agentic development requires more than productivity; it requires a safe execution boundary in which AI agents can operate without exposing secrets, bypassing policies, or accessing unauthorized systems. Operational management: reduce the infrastructure work. Most teams are not looking for a new platform to run. They want to stop spending engineering cycles on infrastructure that does not directly advance software delivery. With Citrix SecurSpaces Flex, Citrix operates the layers that consume time and carry availability risk, including the control plane, hosting infrastructure, databases, developer workspaces, as well as patching, scaling, and monitoring. Updates are delivered as a managed service, and workspaces continue to operate normally during the underlying platform upgrade. All while customers keep control of identity, source code repositories, images, applications, policies, and data. That boundary lets IT focus on the work that adds direct value: defining Linux environment for different needs, maintaining the right tooling, designing policies, and improving onboarding rather than building and maintaining the platform. In Citrix SecurSpaces Flex, operational efficiency comes down to a simple, complementary pairing: * Workspace size (Capacity): Sets the compute profile (light, medium, or heavy) to match the task at hand. * Workspace templates (Consistency): Defines the environment itself, including the container image, preinstalled tools, and attached resources. Because these layers are decoupled, a team can reuse a single template across dozens of workspaces, pairing it dynamically with whatever compute size the current workload demands. Great user experience: match the workspace to the work. User experience problems for developers usually show up at scale, when environments drift, setup takes days, and every persona is handed the same configuration whether they need it or not. Citrix SecurSpaces Flex lets organizations deliver right-sized workspaces by persona rather than treating all developers as having the same requirements. The same applies to AI agents: each coding or non-coding agent runs sandboxed inside the workspace, isolating and auditing its activity. Developers and AI agents start in minutes with a ready-to-use environment and work from day one, rather than spending days setting up and maintaining a local machine. Teams can scale compute up or down depending on the task. Because usage is counted daily, a developer can run a light workspace for a few days and switch to a heavy profile when the work requires more CPU, memory, or GPU resources. That maintains a good user experience while aligning spend to actual use instead of peak capacity. AI agents follow the same model: each one runs in a sandbox inside the workspace under a single control plane, with controlled ingress and egress and native data loss prevention, so its activity stays isolated and contained rather than running unmanaged on the endpoint. Security: keep the control boundary clear. Security teams rarely object to cloud development in theory. They object when it is not clear who owns what, what can be enforced, and what can be audited once developers are working. With Citrix SecurSpaces Flex, active development occurs within secure workspaces rather than on endpoints, keeping source code, credentials, and access tokens entirely off local machines. Sensitive assets remain confined to the workspace boundary, encrypted at rest and in transit within the customer's chosen region. By defining a clear line between platform operations (managed by Citrix) and asset governance (managed by the customer), security teams get a clear, defensible posture. Access is strictly enforced through a zero-trust model with role-based controls and comprehensive audit logging, aligning perfectly with enterprise compliance expectations even as teams shift. Predictable spend without a procurement cycle. Cloud spend for developer and AI agent tooling is under scrutiny, and rigid models make it hard to adjust. Citrix SecurSpaces Flex consumption is based on clearly defined workspace sizes mapped to compute profiles, each with a published rate. FinOps specialists can estimate costs in advance, while engineering teams have the flexibility to choose the workspace size that best fits their needs. As requirements change, teams can scale workspaces up or down without re-architecting or a new procurement cycle. Because Citrix SecurSpaces Flex is part of Citrix Platform Flex, the same credit model applies to other Platform Flex services. For example, developers can use a lightweight desktop for email, documentation, and collaboration, and connect to a SecurSpaces workspace for coding, builds, and testing, with usage tracked through the unified Platform Flex model. Modernization without the cutover risk. The goal is not simply to move development to the cloud. The goal is to modernize the delivery of working environments for developers and AI agents without creating new infrastructure, operations, or security problems for EUC and platform engineering teams to absorb. Citrix SecurSpaces Flex gives organizations a practical path forward: start with the teams or use cases that are ready, such as contractor access or high-end laptop replacement, validate security and cost, keep control over the decisions that matter, and expand without forcing a single high-stakes rollout. That gives IT fewer layers to operate, platform and EUC teams a more practical way to phase adoption, security teams clearer control boundaries, and the organization a developer and agentic sandbox development platform that can adapt as teams and workloads change. For a more technical view, read the companion Tech Zone article that explores how Citrix SecurSpaces Flex optimizes security, resiliency, and costs. To gain further insights, please visit the Citrix(R) SecurSpaces Flex and Citrix(R) Platform Flex documentation. Tagged under: Laurent Balmelli is the former CEO of Strong Network and current Vice President of Product Management at Citrix.