FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — July 31, 2007 — Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced that Frost & Sullivan has chosen Citrix Access GatewayTM as the winner of the 2007 Stratecast Award for Innovation in SSL VPN Product Direction. The award acknowledges Citrix’s product vision and execution in addressing the market need for secure access solutions that are part of a comprehensive, end-to-end application delivery infrastructure.
Citrix Access Gateway is a key component of the overarching Citrix application delivery infrastructure, which allows IT to deliver applications to all users with the best performance, security and cost savings. Citrix Access Gateway is the only SSL VPN to securely deliver access to any application with robust endpoint analysis capabilities, while accelerating and optimizing VPN traffic to support up to 10,000 concurrent users per appliance.
“Stratecast presents the Innovation in SSL VPN Product Direction Award to a vendor that is at the forefront in integrating SSL VPN technologies into the newly emerging solutions for comprehensive application access, delivery and security,” said Michael Suby, program manager, Stratecast, a division of Frost and Sullivan. “Based on its strategic vision and demonstrated execution abilities, Citrix has positioned itself as an SSL VPN market leader with Access Gateway by supporting the need for an integrated application delivery infrastructure that takes into account granular application access control, scalability and security.”
According to Stratecast, SSL VPN market trends are evolving vendor solutions to include access control and universal application delivery, as well as network and intellectual property security. The interoperability of these technologies is critical so that the resulting product combination is materially better than the linear stacking of independently operated and managed appliances. The key product capabilities an integrated application access, delivery and security solution should possess are: network and application access control; mobility enablement; scalability and reliability; threat mitigation; information leakage prevention; and end-to-end application performance monitoring.
“Citrix is committed to providing a complete application delivery infrastructure that provides the best performance, highest security and lowest total cost. As a part of this effort, we’re proud to be recognized by Stratecast as a leader in the SSL VPN market with Citrix Access Gateway,” said Phil Montgomery, director of product marketing, Citrix Systems. “The selection of Citrix as the winner of this award is a testament to the leadership and performance of the Access Gateway product line and its role as a crucial component for delivering secure application access.”
Stratecast leveraged its research expertise in the network, security and application delivery market space to evaluate SSL VPN vendors based on their product capabilities, product vision and visionary execution.
About Citrix Access Gateway
Citrix Access Gateway™ is the only SSL VPN to securely deliver any application with policy-based SmartAccess control. Users will have easy-to-use secure access to all of the enterprise applications and data they need to be productive and IT can cost effectively extend access to applications while maintaining security through SmartAccess application-level policies. With Access Gateway organizations are empowered to cost effectively meet the anywhere access demands of all workers – enabling flexible work options, easier outsourcing and non-employee access, and business continuity readiness – while ensuring the highest-level of information security.
About Stratecast/Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more than 40 years. The company's industry expertise integrates growth consulting, growth partnership services, and corporate management training to identify and develop opportunities. Frost & Sullivan serves an extensive clientele that includes Global 1000 companies, emerging companies, and the investment community by providing comprehensive industry coverage that reflects a unique global perspective and combines ongoing analysis of markets, technologies, econometrics, and demographics. The Stratecast Division focuses on strategic forecasting and strategy for the Telecom/IT sector. For more information, visit
www.awards.frost.com.
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.
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