Citrix XenServer Ranked Server Virtualization Champion

Citrix News Release:

Citrix XenServer has been named Champion in Info-Tech Research Group’s Server Virtualization Vendor Landscape

February 26, 2013

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Feb. 26, 2013 – Citrix today announced that Citrix XenServer® has been listed as a Champion in Info-Tech Research Group’s Server Virtualization Vendor Landscape. It was also recognized with the Value Award. Assessing vendors by the strength of their offering and their strategy for the enterprise, Info-Tech Research Group Vendor Landscapes pay tribute to the contribution of exceptional vendors in a particular category. Other Citrix products have also been recognized by Info-Tech, including Citrix XenDesktop® in the Desktop Virtualization Vendor Landscape (January 2013)  and Citrix CloudPlatform™ in the Cloud Management Vendor Landscape (November 2012). Champions are defined as offering excellent value, having a strong market presence and acting as trend setters for the industry. The Value Award is presented to the vendor with the most robust solution at a much lower cost than many of its competitors.

“Citrix’s focus on cloud is unparalleled by other vendors,” cites the report. “As a result, the company has become the go-to vendor when looking at cloud-ready solutions. Look closely at Citrix as an alternative to VMware - it offers many of the same features, but at a lower price point.”

XenServer is a complete server virtualization platform built on the powerful open-source Xen® hypervisor. Xen technology is widely acknowledged as the fastest and most secure virtualization software in the industry and is designed for efficient management of Windows® and Linux® virtual servers, delivering cost-effective server consolidation and business continuity. XenServer adds a rich set of management and automation capabilities, cloud management integrations and security enhancements to optimize the platform for the cloud-enabled datacenter of the future. XenServer powers more than 100,000 Citrix customers, four of the top five largest hosting provider public clouds and runs workloads in over half of the businesses in the Fortune 500.

About Info-Tech Research Group

With a paid membership of over 29,000 members worldwide, Info-Tech Research Group is the global leader in providing tactical, practical Information Technology research and analysis. Info-Tech Research Group has a fourteen-year history of delivering quality research and is North America's fastest growing full-service IT analyst firm.

About Citrix

Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the cloud computing company that enables mobile workstyles – empowering people to work and collaborate from anywhere, accessing apps and data on any of the latest devices, as easily as they would in their own office – simply and securely. Citrix cloud computing solutions help IT and service providers build both private and public clouds – leveraging virtualization and networking technologies to deliver high-performance, elastic and cost-effective services for mobile workstyles. With market leading solutions for mobility, desktop virtualization, cloud networking, cloud platforms, collaboration, and data sharing, Citrix helps organizations of all sizes achieve the kind of speed and agility necessary to succeed in an increasingly mobile and dynamic world. Citrix products are in use at more than 260,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Annual revenue in 2012 was $2.59 billion.

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