Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Products, 2007”1 report. According to the Gartner report, “a Leader will have exhibited an ability to shape the market by introducing additional capabilities in its product offering and by raising the awareness of the importance of these features. [Gartner] expects a Leader to be growing market share, or the market as a whole, and to have solutions that resonate with an increasing number of enterprises. Expertise in complex data center application deployment is a necessity to be a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery, 2007.”
“Growing application complexity and rapidly rising user expectations are driving the need for an end-to-end application delivery infrastructure that secures, optimizes and simplifies the delivery of applications,” said Klaus Oesterman, vice president and general manager, Application Networking Group, Citrix Systems. “We think Citrix’s placement in Gartner’s leaders quadrant is confirmation of our leadership in this key segment of the application delivery infrastructure space. Citrix will continue to expand its innovation by helping businesses adopt and deliver emerging applications with the best performance, security and cost savings.”
Gartner evaluated over 13 Application Delivery Controller vendors serving enterprise customers based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. The ability to execute criteria summarizes factors such as the vendor's financial viability, market responsiveness, product development, sales channels and customer base. The completeness of vision criteria reflects the vendor’s innovation, whether the vendor drives or follows the market, and if the vendor’s view of how the market will develop matches Gartner's perspective.
Citrix® NetScaler®, the primary solution evaluated for this report, complements Citrix’s comprehensive application delivery infrastructure product line by giving IT administrators an unprecedented ability to improve the user experience for both internally and externally facing web applications. Optimizing all web applications through accelerated performance, improved security, and substantially reduced load on servers, Citrix NetScaler provides visibility into the end-user application experience and comprehensive web application security in conjunction with advanced traffic management. The current version, Citrix NetScaler 8.0, integrates a wide range of new capabilities into its AppExpert Policy Framework, including easy graphical policy configuration, full transaction-level application intelligence, integrated SSL VPN and web application firewall, as well as built-in end user experience monitoring. This newest release enables companies to keep pace with growing application complexity and rapidly rising user expectations by making it dramatically easier to set precise policies to match any application and user scenario.
The full Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Products, 2007 report can be viewed here: www.citrix.com/marketresearch/GartnerADCMQ.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
About Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure
Effective application delivery requires an end-to-end strategy incorporating key infrastructure solutions deployed along the line-of-sight between datacenters and end users. The Citrix application delivery infrastructure product line includes best-in-class solutions designed to work well with a company’s existing infrastructure and even better when deployed together. Starting from the datacenter and working out toward the end user, Citrix believes there are six best practices to ensure the successful delivery of any application to any user in any location:
- Deliver Web Applications with Citrix NetScaler — Optimize all web applications with an integrated networking solution that accelerates performance, improves security, and substantially reduces load on servers.
- Deliver Windows Applications with Citrix Presentation ServerTM — Save millions in management costs and eliminate data security risks by installing all Windows applications in the datacenter and virtualizing or streaming them to end users over the network.
- Deliver Desktops with Citrix Desktop ServerTM — Reduce the cost, management and security risk of desktop computing by delivering desktops virtually from the datacenter in a way that actually improves the end user experience.
- Enable Secure Application Access with Citrix Access GatewayTM — Provide a secure single point of access to all applications that automatically customizes access policies based on user scenarios.
- Accelerate Applications to Branch Users with Citrix WANScalerTM — Improve the performance of applications delivered over the wide area network while substantially reducing bandwidth costs.
- Monitor End User Experience with Citrix EdgeSightTM — Ensure applications are meeting business metrics at all times by monitoring performance from the user’s perspective.
In an increasingly volatile world where customers face a dizzying array of changes to applications, users and business climates, making application delivery a strategic imperative is no longer an option. By addressing all key elements of application delivery along the line-of-sight between datacenters and users, Citrix is enabling its customers to spend less time worrying about infrastructure limitations and more time growing their businesses.
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
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(1) Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Products, 2007” by Joe Skorupa and Mark Fabbi. April 30 2007.
