Vianen, 28 september 2007 - Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), wereldwijd marktleider op het gebied van application delivery infrastructure, introduceert twee nieuwe certificaten. Dit zijn Certified Administrator™ (CCA) for Citrix EdgeSight™ 4 en Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA) for Citrix WANScaler™ 4. Deze certificaten bereiden IT professionals voor op het beheer van technologieën die meer inzichtelijkheid geven in hun application delivery infrastructure. Daarnaast leren zij de snelheid en prestaties van hun WAN-applicaties te optimaliseren voor nevenkantoren en mobiele werkers.
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Citrix Announces Certifications for EdgeSight and WANScaler Technologies
Expanded Certification Program Helps IT Administrators Gain Visibility into Application Performance and Improve User Experience for Branch and Remote Workers
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced two new certifications: Citrix Certified Administrator™ (CCA) for Citrix EdgeSight™ 4 and Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA) for Citrix WANScaler™ 4. The new certifications prepare IT professionals to manage technologies that increase visibility into their application delivery infrastructures and optimize WAN application performance and speed for branch offices and remote workers.
The new EdgeSight and WANScaler certifications continue to expand Citrix’s offerings for administrator-level professionals who help their organizations increase productivity and profitability in the face of organizational growth, diverse and distributed workforces, rapidly changing IT needs and increased application complexity. These offerings are the latest in a series of new Citrix CCA certifications including the CCA for Citrix® NetScaler® 8 and CCA for Citrix Access Gateway™ 8 Enterprise Edition, both announced earlier this year. With this newest announcement, a total of seven administrator-level certifications will be available covering nearly every key point of presence in the Citrix application delivery model. Other currently available CCA certifications include the CCA for Citrix Presentation Server™ 4, CCA for Citrix Access Gateway™ 4 and CCA for Citrix Password Manager™ 4.
“Citrix’s new EdgeSight and WANScaler CCA certifications allow administrators to maximize the performance, security and cost savings that Citrix technologies offer in complex environments,” said Julieann Scalisi, director of Citrix Education, Citrix Systems. “The breadth of Citrix certifications allows administrators to gain and validate in-depth product knowledge in a world of increasing infrastructure complexity. Organizations are assured that their IT employees have mastered skills that bring the most value.”
The CCA for Citrix EdgeSight 4 validates IT professionals’ expertise in the product line that gives organizations unprecedented visibility into their application delivery infrastructures. The certification provides confirmation that professionals are prepared to meet the challenges of complex and variable environments that can make IT infrastructure performance extremely difficult to predict and control. Citrix EdgeSight 4 CCAs will have mastered technologies that give them extremely accurate and granular visibility into the various components of their organization’s IT environment. In order to obtain the CCA for Citrix EdgeSight 4, candidates must pass Citrix exam 800, Citrix EdgeSight 4.5: Administration, Performance Monitoring and Load Testing. In addition, an instructor-led training course will be available to help candidates prepare for the exam. Both the course and exam are expected to be available within the month.
The CCA for Citrix WANScaler 4 validates that professionals are prepared to extend LAN-like application performance to branch office and mobile PC employees, dramatically increasing the speed at which applications are delivered and enabling mobile PC users to access applications from wherever they work without performance penalties. Candidates can obtain the CCA for Citrix WANScaler 4 by passing Citrix exam 740, Citrix WANScaler 4.2: Administration. An instructor-led training course covering best practices for administration and deployment of both the WANScaler appliances and WANScaler Client will be available to help candidates prepare for the exam. Both the course and exam are expected to be available in Q4 of 2007.
For more information on the CCA for Citrix EdgeSight 4, CCA for Citrix WANScaler 4, or any of the other Citrix certifications offered, please visit the Citrix Education website.
About Citrix Education
Citrix Education offers Citrix customers and partners a solid knowledge base of Citrix products, technology and best practices. This is accomplished through a robust curriculum that includes instructor-led and e-learning courses, and culminates with certification exams. Citrix training and certifications enable IT professionals to build Citrix environments, as well as maintain and maximize Citrix deployments. For more information about training and the industry-recognized certifications offered by Citrix Education, go to
www.citrixeducation.com About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000 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 99% 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.
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