Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced that Citrix is serving as the exclusive, hand-selected Application Delivery sponsor of the InteropNet event network at CMP Technology’s Interop® Las Vegas 2007. As part of this selection, CMP will leverage the Citrix® NetScaler® 8.0 solution to power the InteropNet’s web applications and provide advanced traffic management, enabling thousands of Interop attendees and exhibitors to experience the fastest possible application performance and most reliable and secure application access. In addition to contributing its powerful NetScaler appliances, Citrix engineers worked collaboratively with other market-leading vendors to build the InteropNet at Interop Las Vegas 2007 and make it the most capable event network ever.
“The InteropNet provides a unique opportunity for Interop attendees to see the latest innovations in a live production network,” said Lenny Heymann, Interop General Manager. “We are delighted to once again have Citrix supporting the InteropNet and showcasing their leading technologies in partnership with our exhibitors, sponsors and volunteer IT experts.”
Citrix has deployed its most advanced release, NetScaler 8.0, to accelerate application delivery to InteropNet users while increasing security and improving web server capacity. Interop exhibitors are leveraging advanced NetScaler technology to bring the fastest possible performance to their public product demonstrations. Additionally, InteropNet engineers are using NetScaler’s global load balancing capabilities for seamless site failover in the event that part of the network becomes unavailable.
“The selection of Citrix NetScaler as the exclusive Application Delivery sponsor is a testament to the quality and performance of the NetScaler product line,” said Greg Smith, director of product marketing, Citrix Systems. “We are excited to see our latest NetScaler 8.0 release meet a critical need for the industry’s premier event.”
Citrix NetScaler is an integral part of Citrix’s application delivery infrastructure, offering enterprise customers the most complete, end-to-end solution for delivering any application, to any user, in any location with the best performance, security and cost efficiency. NetScaler 8.0 provides state-of-the art application delivery capabilities, including a new graphical policy configuration engine, full transaction-level application intelligence, integrated SSL VPN and web application firewall, as well as built-in end user experience monitoring.
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. Citrix NetScaler 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 Interop
For 22 years, Interop, part of the CMP Technology family of global brands, has helped IT and business decision-makers bring together the key components of a solid information strategy to drive efficiency and competitive advantage for their organizations. As business continues to drive the adoption of technology, and the converged network is creating new advantages, an emerging “IP for business” philosophy has woven itself into the fabric of business process applications that will be on display at Interop 2007 global events. Through in-depth educational programs, workshops, real-world demonstrations and live technology implementations in its unique InteropNet and InteropLabs programs, Interop provides the forum for the most powerful innovations and solutions the industry has to offer. 2007 Interop events include Interop Las Vegas, May 20-25, Mandalay Bay Convention Center; Interop Moscow, May 30-31, Forum Hall; Interop Tokyo, June 11-15, Mukahari Messe; Interop New York, October 22-26, Javits Convention Center; and Interop Berlin, November 6-8, Fairground Berlin. For more information about these events, visit www.interop.com.
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.
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