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Citrix Announces Agreement to Acquire Aurema
Acquisition Improves Application Delivery for Windows-based Applications by Boosting Workload Management Capabilities
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. » 2/14/2007 » Citrix Systems, Inc. (CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced it has acquired certain assets of privately held Aurema Pty Ltd. The patented technology acquired in this transaction will improve monitoring and management of processor workloads across Citrix’s application delivery offerings.
Collaboration between the two companies dates back to Citrix iForum™ Global 2004, when Citrix announced it was licensing a subset of Aurema’s processor workload management technology to incorporate into Citrix Presentation Server™, its market-leading solution for delivering Windows applications with the best performance, security and cost savings.
Aurema provides comprehensive CPU workload management technology that improves the system speed, performance, and scalability of Citrix Presentation Server environments. Aurema accomplishes this via dynamic reprioritization of processes ensuring all users are allocated their share of system resources. Rogue processes that unnecessarily cause CPU spikes will get fewer resources while other processes, which were previously being starved, will get what they need to work; resulting in a more consistent and predictable user access experience.
Aurema allows administrators to generate, store, view, and export resource utilization reports that enable better workload management, capacity planning, service level agreement tracking and billing.
Acquisition of Aurema
Aurema is a profitable technology company that has been focused on developing and providing workload management technologies since 1986. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, Calif. but was originally founded in Sydney, Australia, where it still keeps its development and engineering teams. Aurema licenses its workload management technology to companies such as IBM and Fujitsu Siemens.
“The focus of Citrix’s application delivery infrastructure is to provide the best user experience at the lowest cost. Most enterprise applications, such as CRM, ERM or home-grown applications are resource-intensive and difficult to scale for distributed environments,” said Nabeel Youakim, vice president and product line executive, Virtualization Systems Group. “Aurema is an industry leader in CPU workload management and its technology, which gives dedicated fair share resources to all users, is already included in the de facto standard for Windows application delivery – Presentation Server – delivering the best access experience and maximum scalability in virtualized application delivery environments. Going forward, Citrix plans to further leverage Aurema technology to offer CPU workload management capabilities in our application delivery products as well as other application virtualization offerings.”
“This transaction will provide a great way to get our workload management technology out to the broader market through the industry’s leading application virtualization product – Presentation Server,” said Mark Wright, president and chief executive officer of Aurema.
Terms of the Deal
The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Effective immediately, seven of Aurema’s employees will join the Citrix team and will remain based in Sydney, Australia reporting into the Virtualization Systems Group.
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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