Nov 112010 |
Citrix OpenCloud Wins 2010 PC World Latin America Best Cloud Solution AwardSelected by a judging panel of editors based throughout the region, the PC World Latin America Awards highlight the best and most innovative products and solutions currently available in the Latin American market |
Miami, FL - Citrix Systems Inc. today announced that Citrix OpenCloud was honored with the 2010 PC World Latin America Best Cloud Solution award. Selected by a judging panel of editors based throughout the region, the PC World Latin America Awards highlight the best and most innovative products and solutions currently available in the Latin American market.
The Citrix OpenCloud platform gives enterprises and service providers a pragmatic approach to cloud computing that makes the move to the cloud simpler and more successful. Citrix OpenCloud offers enterprises the choice to leverage infrastructure technologies already in place or to add new ones, to connect their datacenters seamlessly to external clouds, and to provision applications and deliver them to their users. Cloud providers can also extend the reach of their offerings by incorporating their expertise and best practices with the Citrix OpenCloud platform to deliver a variety of innovative solutions.
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Enrique Pla, vice president of Citrix Latin America
“As cloud computing services continue to mature and develop in the Latin American market, companies are looking for ways to benefit from these services, while not incurring additional expansion or cost within their existing IT infrastructures. With Citrix OpenCloud, enterprises can take advantage of a growing number of public cloud computing services while leveraging their existing infrastructure, and don’t have to lock themselves in to a specific cloud approach. Being honored with this award by PC World Latin America reinforces our commitment to providing customers with the power of choice and our vision of delivering IT as a service.”
Elinet Medina, vice-president of Editorial of IDG Latin America
“Cloud Computing is revolutionizing the IT industry, as more and more players are entering the field and offering a wide array of services that are beneficial to companies of all sizes. Taking this into consideration, we have incorporated for the first time the Best Cloud Solution category into our annual ceremony. Citrix OpenCloud has set the bar high from the start by offering the market a robust platform that provides the kind of interoperability and scalability that is needed when venturing into the cloud.”
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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 2009 was $1.61 billion.
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