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242011

Citrix Named 2011 Microsoft Alliance – Advanced Infrastructure Partner of the Year
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Santa Clara, Calif. - Today, Citrix Systems proudly announced it has won the 2011 Microsoft Alliance – Advanced Infrastructure Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.

“We are extremely honored to be recognized for the second year in a row as a Microsoft Alliance Advanced Infrastructure Partner of the Year. Our relationship with Microsoft spans 20+ years, during which time we have built successful joint solutions that bring tremendous value to our customers,” said Simon Hayes, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances at Citrix. We have worked diligently to form a tight integration around our joint desktop virtualization offering, and are very excited about the significant performance benefits that Hyper-V SP1 brings to Citrix XenDesktop. Combined with a dedicated joint sales team and go-to-market program, Citrix and Microsoft are rapidly advancing the adoption of desktop virtualization, enabling our customers to deliver the right computing resources to their employees virtually anytime and anywhere more efficiently and cost-effectively.”  

Awards were presented in multiple categories, with winners chosen from a set of more than 3,000 entrants worldwide. Citrix was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in Microsoft Alliance – Advanced Infrastructure Partner of the Year. The Alliance - Advanced Infrastructure Partner of the Year Award honors a partner who has demonstrated leadership in driving Microsoft-based advanced infrastructure solutions to enterprise customers in the past year, as well as field engagement and commitment to Microsoft in opportunities including Partner Solution Plans. This award recognizes Citrix who has demonstrated successful wins such as customer references and solutions profiled, infrastructure investments to drive Microsoft-based business (e.g., headcount, financial investments), joint marketing, readiness, training, and breadth of engagement across the Microsoft 13 areas.

“Microsoft is proud to recognize Citrix as Alliance Partner of the Year in the Advanced Infrastructure category for its leadership in delivering desktop virtualization solutions to enterprise customers over the past year,” said Mark Hill, vice president of Enterprise Partners at Microsoft. “By complementing and extending Microsoft’s desktop virtualization solution capabilities, Citrix has helped to effectively drive Microsoft-based business wins based on Microsoft Hyper-V, Systems Center, and App-V and earned an exceptional level of satisfaction from its enterprise customers.”

The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year.

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Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand service. Founded in 1989, Citrix combines virtualization, networking, and cloud computing technologies into a full portfolio of products that enable virtual workstyles for users and virtual datacenters for IT. More than 230,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to help them build simpler and more cost-effective IT environments. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was $1.87 billion.

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