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New Citrix NetScaler 8.0 Gives Customers Unprecedented Ability to Manage the Experience of Enterprise Application UsersApril 11, 2007; 05:00 AM With the emergence of new technology trends such as Web 2.0, enterprise mash-ups and services oriented architectures (SOA), enterprise application environments are growing increasingly diverse and complex. At the same time, the growing popularity of highly interactive consumer web environments such as MySpace, You Tube and Google are dramatically resetting user expectations for what an enterprise web application experience should be like. With an estimated 75 percent of all Internet users going through a Citrix NetScaler system on any given day, Citrix has long been the leader in application delivery infrastructure for the world’s most demanding consumer web applications. The new NetScaler 8.0 release brings much of that experience to the world of enterprise web applications, giving IT administrators unprecedented ability to improve the experience of corporate application users. To achieve these goals, the new NetScaler 8.0 release offers two significant areas of innovation. First, it sets a new standard in controlling application and user specific policies with its AppExpert Policy Framework and makes those policies far easier to configure with its groundbreaking AppExpert Visual Policy Builder. Second, it tightly integrates adjacent Citrix infrastructure technologies that are frequently deployed along the line-of-sight between web applications and users, becoming the first application delivery controller on the market to offer fully integrated SSL VPN for intelligent application access security, web application firewall for application and data protection, and end user experience monitoring to measure application performance from the perspective of the end user. Each of these newly integrated capabilities plugs into the AppExpert Policy Framework giving administrators unprecedented control over the entire web application delivery process. According to Gartner, Inc.1, “The application acceleration market addresses one of the most important problems facing IT organizations today — the reliable, dependable delivery of new and existing applications across LANs and WANs. Application acceleration appliances enable server/data center consolidation and deployment of browser-based application interfaces while lowering total cost of ownership.” “We recognize trends in rich-web applications growing in complexity and cost, and as the web expands and users begin engaging these rich services for more time each day, we don’t see it getting easier anytime soon,” said Michael Jones, CEO of Userplane, an AOL company. “NetScaler allowed us to substantially lower cost and expand our network to support this growing demand.” New Features Change the Game in Web Application Delivery These new capabilities make Citrix NetScaler 8.0 the most strategic infrastructure for delivering any web application to any user in any location. Highlights include:
“The pressure enterprises are under to deliver a great experience for web application users has never been higher,” said Klaus Oestermann, vice president and general manager, Application Networking Group, Citrix Systems. “As the trend in moving applications to the web evolves across all industries and markets, the Citrix NetScaler product line allows companies of all sizes to optimize, secure, and simplify the delivery of their web applications.” NetScaler is a key offering in Citrix’s portfolio of end-to-end application delivery infrastructure solutions. With these products, Citrix offers customers the most complete solution for delivering any application, to any user, in any location with the best performance, security and cost savings. Pricing and Availability Citrix NetScaler 8.0 is available today through authorized NetScaler resellers worldwide. Citrix EdgeSight for NetScaler will be available in the new Citrix NetScaler Platinum Edition, which is scheduled for general availability in Q2 2007. Citrix Application Firewall and Citrix Access Gateway are available as standalone appliances, or can be deployed as integrated software modules on a NetScaler 8.0 system. NetScaler 8.0 pricing begins at a suggested retail price of approximately $17,500. For full pricing and packaging details, please visit www.citrix.com/netscaler. About Citrix NetScaler Citrix NetScaler optimizes the delivery of web applications—improving performance, increasing security, and improving web server capacity. This approach ensures the best total cost of ownership (TCO), security, availability, and performance for web applications. The Citrix NetScaler solution is a comprehensive network system that combines high-speed load balancing and content switching with state-of-the-art application acceleration, layer 4-7 traffic management, data compression, dynamic content caching, SSL acceleration, network optimization, and robust application security into a single, tightly integrated solution. Deployed in front of application servers, the system significantly reduces processing overhead on application and database servers, reducing hardware and bandwidth costs. About Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 180,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 98% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2006 was $1.1 billion. For Citrix Investors This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Those statements involve a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks associated with revenue growth and recognition of revenue, products, their development and distribution, product demand and pipeline, economic and competitive factors, the Company’s key strategic relationships, acquisition and related integration risks as well as other risks detailed in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Citrix assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein. Citrix®, NetScaler®, Citrix Access Gateway™, Citrix EdgeSight™ and Citrix Application Firewall™ are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. 1 Gartner, Dataquest Inc., "Forecast: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide, 2005-2010", Joe Skorupa, August 2006 |
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