Citrix Synergy Attracts More Than 2,000 Attendees and 65 Sponsors and Exhibitors in Its Inaugural Year

Today at Citrix Synergy™, the event where virtualization, networking and application delivery meet, Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) announced the company hosted more than 2,000 attendees from 933 companies and 44 countries who gathered to discuss the future of application delivery. In addition, more than 65 leading IT vendors joined Citrix as sponsors and exhibitors, displaying the hottest new technology in virtualization, networking and application delivery.

Held in Houston, Texas at the George R. Brown Convention Center, this year’s three-day mega-conference included four separate industry events designed to bring attendees up to speed on the latest application delivery trends and technology:

• iForum: the traditional Citrix user conference with the latest on Citrix products with over 40 hours of deep technical content
• Application Delivery Industry Expo: breakout tracks on hot topics and the latest products and solutions from leading industry vendors
• IT 2.0 Business Symposium: strategy and networking in a condensed, one-day schedule designed exclusively for the C-level business IT professional
• Geek Speak Live!: an “un-conference” where industry tech experts, analysts and bloggers pick the topics and facilitate the sessions

Features this week at Synergy 2008 included:

• Keynotes on Tuesday from Citrix President and CEO Mark Templeton; Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google; and Microsoft Senior Vice President, Server and Tools Business Bob Muglia
• A panel discussion featuring CSC, Cisco, Citrix, Microsoft and Nicholas Carr hosted by Mark Margevicius, Gartner Inc.
• Keynotes on Wednesday from Wes Wasson, Citrix; David Booth, CSC; Scott Farrand and Roberto Moctezuma, HP; Pat Gelsinger, Intel; Frank Gens, IDC; Sanjog Gad, SAP, and Gordon Payne, Citrix.
• 21 industry analyst-led sessions discussing best practices for server, desktop and application virtualization, security and data center and branch office strategies
• Entertainment from Emmy-award winning comedian Dana Carvey.

Citrix hosted Synergy 2008 in Houston, Texas at the George R. Brown Convention Center, but will move the conference in 2009 to the MGM Grand Resort and Convention Center in Las Vegas. Citrix Synergy 2009 will be held May 4-7, 2009.

Synergy 2008 closes on Friday, May 23rd at noon.

About Citrix Synergy 2008

Born as a user conference more than 10 years ago, Citrix Synergy has been completely reconceived as the industry’s premier event for application delivery. Citrix Synergy is where virtualization, networking and application delivery meet in a three-day mega-conference with a broad industry focus. Attendees get the benefit of four events with one registration: a traditional user conference with the latest on Citrix products; an application delivery expo of breakout tracks, products and solutions; an IT 2.0 business symposium exclusively for C-level professionals; and Geek Speak Live!, an un-conference where tech geeks, analysts and bloggers pick the topics and facilitate the sessions. Citrix Synergy will be at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, from May 20 to May 23, 2008. More information is available at http://www.citrixsynergy.com.

About Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 215,000 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 percent of the Fortune 100 companies and 99 percent of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 8,000 partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was $1.4 billion.

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