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Citrix | XenSource

To deliver applications to users with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost, IT must address six key points of presence between applications and users.

Nearly every business process today relies on applications. Most IT organizations continue to deploy and install applications, although Industry analysts advise that traditional application deployment is too complex, too static, and costs too much just to maintain, let alone try to keep up with changes in the business.

A Dynamic Delivery System

Citrix offers a new and different approach – Citrix Delivery Center – the first solution on the market that delivers applications and desktops to any user, anytime, anywhere from a secure central location. Citrix Delivery Center’s market leading application delivery technologies enable IT to dramatically improve agility, while enabling the best performance and highest security at the lowest cost.

Citrix Product Range

• Citrix Access Essentials
• Citrix Access Gateway
  • Citrix Access Gateway Standard Edition
  • Citrix Access Gateway Advanced Edition
  • Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition
• Citrix Application Firewall
• Citrix Application Gateway
• Citrix Command Center
• Citrix EasyCall
• Citrix Edgesite
• Citrix NetScaler
• Citrix Password Manager
• Citrix Presentation Server
• Citrix XenApp
• Citrix XenDesktop
• Citrix XenServer

Citrix XenSource

Citrix announce it has completed the acquisition of XenSource, Inc., a privately held leader in enterprise-grade virtual infrastructure solutions. The purchase price for the transaction was approximately $500 million payable in a combination of cash and Citrix common stock.

This acquisition moves Citrix, a pioneer in the application virtualization market, into adjacent server and desktop virtualization markets — expected by Citrix to grow to nearly $5 billion over the next four years. By acquiring XenSource, Citrix is now the only company to offer organizations an end-to-end application delivery infrastructure that leverages the method of application, desktop and server virtualization best suited for the dynamic delivery of applications to any user.  

As previously announced on Aug. 15 upon close of the acquisition the XenSource team and products will form the core of the new Virtualization & Management Division of Citrix dedicated to building and growing these important new businesses. Peter Levine, XenSource, CEO, will lead the new division, reporting directly to Mark Templeton, Citrix president and CEO. Under Peter’s leadership, this new division will oversee Citrix’s businesses in server virtualization and application delivery management solutions as part of the company’s overall application delivery infrastructure strategy.

Citrix also reiterated its commitment to maintaining and growing support for the independent Xen open source community which develops the underlying virtualization engine used by many commercial products throughout the industry, including those from XenSource. The Xen project, which includes significant contributions from companies like Intel, AMD, HP, IBM and Dell, is led by XenSource co-founder, and new Citrix employee, Ian Pratt. Since news of the acquisition, XenSource has worked with the key contributors to the Xen project to develop procedures for independent oversight of the project, ensuring that it continues to operate with full transparency, fairness and vendor neutrality.  Citrix agrees these principles are critical to the continued role of Xen as a freely available open source industry standard for virtualization.

“The XenSource products, team and culture are a great addition to the Citrix family,” said Mark Templeton, president and chief executive officer for Citrix. “The combination of Citrix and XenSource brings together application, desktop and server virtualization to deliver more innovation, choice and flexibility to the market, including our installed base of more than 200,000 customers worldwide. As application delivery becomes a top issue for IT and the world becomes more dynamic, we find it important to be sure we are providing customers the most cutting-edge technologies out there.”

About Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. 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.