Technology alliances

Certified on the platforms your business already runs

Bitdefender does not ask you to change your infrastructure to be protected. GravityZone is certified by VMware, Nutanix, Citrix, AWS and Microsoft, and built with them: agentless scanning in the hypervisor, native support for NSX and AHV, and one console whether the workload sits on-premises in Bangkok or in a cloud region. This page lists each alliance, what it certifies, and what it means when you deploy.

  • 6

    Technology alliances

    with the vendors behind your data centre and cloud

  • Agentless

    Scanning off the workload

    through a Security Virtual Appliance on VMware and Nutanix

Why it matters

What a technology alliance changes for you

A certification badge is the visible part. The useful part is what it lets us promise when we quote and deploy.

Compatibility is tested by the vendor, not assumed

VMware Ready, Nutanix AHV Ready and Citrix Ready mean the platform vendor validated GravityZone against its own releases. When you patch vSphere or upgrade AHV, the security layer has already been tested on it.

Scanning leaves the workload

On VMware and Nutanix, GravityZone off-loads antimalware scanning to a Security Virtual Appliance. Virtual machines and VDI desktops keep their CPU and memory for the job they exist for, and boot storms stop being a security problem.

One console across data centre and cloud

The same GravityZone Control Center manages vSphere clusters in your own rack, Nutanix nodes, AWS instances and Azure virtual machines. One policy set, one report, no per-platform product.

Two vendors on the same side of a ticket

Alliance partners share technical documentation and escalation paths. When a problem sits between the hypervisor and the agent, we are not guessing which side owns it.

The alliances

Six partners, and what each one certifies

Listed in the order our Thai and South East Asian customers meet them most often.

01

VMware

Elite Technology Alliance Partner
VMware Ready badge - Networking and Security
VMware Cloud on AWS - Partner Ready badge

About the partner

VMware software spans compute, cloud, networking and security, and the digital workspace. For most Thai enterprises it is the hypervisor under the data centre: vSphere clusters, NSX networking, and increasingly VMware Cloud on AWS for the workloads that moved out of the building.

What Bitdefender built with them

Bitdefender has worked with VMware for many years and was the first security vendor to support VMware NSX-T Data Center, and before that NSX Guest Introspection for Linux. GravityZone Security for Virtualized Environments is a VMware Ready solution: it protects server and VDI workloads on vSphere, NSX and VMware Cloud on AWS with layered next-generation defences, while scanning runs in a Security Virtual Appliance so the guests keep their resources. Centralised management stays in the one GravityZone console.

Covers

  • vSphere
  • NSX-T Data Center
  • NSX Guest Introspection
  • VMware Cloud on AWS
  • Horizon VDI
  • vCenter integration
Certification
VMware Ready
Scanning
Agentless via Security Virtual Appliance
First to support
NSX-T Data Center
02

Nutanix

Nutanix Ready - AHV integrated
Nutanix Ready - Integrated badge
Nutanix Ready - Blueprint badge

About the partner

Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible: its enterprise cloud platform converges compute, virtualisation and storage into one software-defined system with its own hypervisor, AHV. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like consumption and seamless application mobility, which is why it is the hyperconverged platform we see most in the region.

What Bitdefender built with them

GravityZone Security for Virtualized Environments is a certified Nutanix AHV-Ready solution. It was built for the hyperconverged data centre rather than adapted to it: scanning is off-loaded to a Security Virtual Appliance on the cluster, which reduces operating cost, simplifies management and raises infrastructure utilisation across the enterprise cloud while keeping the estate compliant. The AHV integration is native, so there is no third-party hypervisor plug-in to keep in step.

Covers

  • Nutanix AHV
  • Prism
  • Hyperconverged clusters
  • Security Virtual Appliance
  • VDI on AHV
Certification
Nutanix AHV Ready
Scanning
Agentless on the cluster
Management
GravityZone console
03

Citrix

Citrix Ready partner
Citrix Ready partner badge

About the partner

Citrix powers cloud, collaboration, networking and virtualisation for around 260,000 organisations, making complex enterprise IT simpler and more accessible. In practice that means Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops on Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer) - the VDI estate a lot of banks, hospitals and universities in Thailand run.

What Bitdefender built with them

Bitdefender is Citrix Ready. GravityZone Security for Virtualized Environments protects Citrix Hypervisor workloads and the virtual desktops on top of them, with the same off-loaded scanning model, and the GravityZone console integrates with XenServer for discovery and remote deployment, so a new pool of desktops is protected the moment it is created rather than after somebody remembers to install an agent.

Covers

  • Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer)
  • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
  • XenDesktop
  • VDI-in-a-Box
  • XenServer integration
Certification
Citrix Ready
Deployment
Console discovers XenServer pools
Use case
VDI and published apps
04

Amazon Web Services

AWS Partner Network - Advanced Technology Partner
AWS Partner Network - Advanced Technology Partner badge

About the partner

Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries, with regions that include Singapore and, since 2025, Thailand - which is where the local latency and data-residency conversations now start.

What Bitdefender built with them

Bitdefender is an Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Partner Network. Bitdefender Security for AWS protects EC2 instances with the same GravityZone technologies as on-premises workloads, provisions instantly as instances are created, and is licensed pay-as-you-go through the AWS Marketplace so security scales with the estate instead of with a purchase order. VMware Cloud on AWS is covered under the VMware alliance above.

Covers

  • Amazon EC2
  • AWS Marketplace
  • Pay-as-you-go licensing
  • Auto-provisioning
  • VMware Cloud on AWS
Programme
APN Advanced Technology Partner
Licensing
Pay as you go or bring your own
Console
GravityZone (cloud)
05

Microsoft

Microsoft Partner - ISV and OEM competencies
Microsoft Partner badge

About the partner

Microsoft is the platform under most of the estate Bitdefender protects: Windows on the desktop, Windows Server and Hyper-V in the rack, Exchange for mail, Active Directory for identity, and Azure and Microsoft 365 in the cloud.

What Bitdefender built with them

Through the Microsoft Independent Software Vendor (ISV) competency Bitdefender has early access to platform technology and market resources, and as an original equipment manufacturer with the Microsoft OEM competency it demonstrates the ability to design and deliver solutions optimised for the Microsoft platform. In practice: the GravityZone Control Center ships as a VHD for Hyper-V, endpoints on every supported Windows release are covered from day one, Exchange servers are protected by Security for Exchange, and Active Directory integration means your users and groups are already in the console.

Covers

  • Windows 10 and 11
  • Windows Server
  • Hyper-V
  • Exchange Server
  • Active Directory
  • Azure virtual machines
Competencies
ISV and OEM
Console appliance
VHD for Hyper-V
Identity
Active Directory sync
06

Pivotal (VMware Tanzu)

Pivotal Advanced Technology Partner
Pivotal Technology Partner - Premier badge

About the partner

Pivotal Cloud Foundry was the platform many large enterprises adopted to ship applications faster, and it now continues as part of VMware Tanzu. Its model - BOSH-built virtual machine instances created and destroyed automatically - is the one a security tool has to keep up with.

What Bitdefender built with them

As a Pivotal Advanced Technology Partner, Bitdefender created the Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools (BEST) Tile for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. With the tile installed, Bitdefender's endpoint security is incorporated automatically into every BOSH-built VM instance at the moment it is created, so the platform team keeps the speed of application delivery and the security team keeps breach prevention and regulatory compliance without a manual step in between.

Covers

  • Pivotal Cloud Foundry
  • VMware Tanzu
  • BOSH-built instances
  • BEST Tile
  • DevOps pipelines
Integration
BEST Tile for PCF
Model
Security at instance creation
Today
Continues under VMware Tanzu

At a glance

What the alliances add up to

The platforms one GravityZone licence covers, whichever alliance they arrive through.

Hypervisors

VMware vSphere

Nutanix AHV

Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer)

Microsoft Hyper-V

KVM

Clouds

Amazon Web Services

VMware Cloud on AWS

Microsoft Azure

Pivotal Cloud Foundry / Tanzu

Integrations

vCenter

NSX-T

XenServer

Active Directory

AWS Marketplace

One console

Data centre and cloud workloads managed from the same GravityZone Control Center.

Off-loaded scanning

A Security Virtual Appliance per host on VMware and Nutanix keeps guests light.

Vendor-certified

VMware Ready, Nutanix AHV Ready, Citrix Ready, APN Advanced, Microsoft ISV and OEM.

Questions

What buyers ask about the alliances

Tell us what your estate runs on

vSphere, Nutanix, Citrix, AWS, Azure or a mix - we will map the right GravityZone licence and deployment model to it.