Citrix Expands Citrix C3 Cloud Computing Platform and Program.C3 Platform Now Enables Windows Applications A program that is written to run under Microsoft's Windows operating system. Such applications typically run under all 32-bit versions of Windows, but earlier applications might also run under the 16-bit versions (Windows 3.x) as well. See Windows. and Desktops to Be Delivered as a Cloud Service; New Service Provider Program Adds Pay-as-You-Go Pricing LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- Today at Citrix Synergy[TM], the event where virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. , networking and application delivery meet, Citrix Systems Citrix Systems' (NASDAQ: CTXS) is an American technology company, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with subsidiary operations in California and Massachusetts, with additional development centers in Australia, India and the UK. , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CTXS CTXS Citrix Systems (NASDAQ stock ticker symbol) ) announced a variety of new offerings for its Citrix Cloud Center[TM] (Citrix C3) product family to further equip service providers with the infrastructure and product licensing needed to deliver successful clouds services to their customers. Following up to the initial debut of Citrix C3 last Fall, Citrix is now enhancing the C3 platform with the addition of Citrix[R] XenApp[TM] and Citrix[R] XenDesktop[TM], enabling service providers to deliver Windows applications and desktops as a service. Central to this added functionality is the new Citrix Service Provider (CSP (1) (Certified Systems Professional) An earlier award for successful completion of an ICCP examination in systems development. See ICCP. (2) (Commerce Service P ) program which is designed specifically for service providers who provide hosted software services to end users. In addition, Citrix C3 has been updated to include new scalable, secure, multi-tenant virtual switch and application delivery controller capabilities. To further help customers gain experience with new cloud-based scenarios, Citrix is also unveiling a series of Citrix C3 Cloud Blueprints, which offer guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. and best practices for testing virtualization, security and application services See ASP and Web services. in a cloud environment. With these enhancements to the Citrix C3 platform and program - including the new Citrix C3 Lab based on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) separately announced today - Citrix is providing an essential set of resources that help make cloud computing (1) Running applications in or from network servers. Computing "in the cloud" may refer to a company's own network, but often refers to the Internet and the use of Web browser-based or rich client applications. a reality for customers of all sizes. "We have been extremely pleased to partner with Citrix to offer fast, reliable and secure cloud services for our customers," said Alvin Kok, Chief, Alatum, Singapore Telecommunications Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SGX: T48, ASX: sgt) (commonly abbreviated as SingTel) and formerly known as Telecom Equipment, is Singapore's largest telecommunications company. Limited. "By leveraging Citrix C3, we have been able to bring tremendous cost savings and business values for enterprises, SMBs and government agencies alike, which are all great differentiators for us in this economic climate." Product Enhancements The updates to the Citrix C3 product family enable service providers to create secure, highly performing, multi-tenant cloud infrastructure environments in a cost effective manner. New capabilities include: * Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop - The incorporation of these two products into Citrix C3 enable service providers to take their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings to a new level. With Citrix C3, service providers can now effectively deliver any Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. applications in the Software as a Service (SaaS) model and even deliver Windows Desktops as a Service (DaaS). * The CSP program - The newest Citrix channel partner offering, the CSP program is designed specifically for service providers who provide hosted software services to end-user customers. The CSP program addresses the service provider market for offsite and multi-tenant hosting, where the end-user customer is not the licensee. The CSP program extends to service providers the "right to use" Citrix products as the underpinning un·der·pin·ning n. 1. Material or masonry used to support a structure, such as a wall. 2. A support or foundation. Often used in the plural. 3. Informal The human legs. Often used in the plural. of their delivery infrastructure and gives them the flexibility of a monthly "active subscriber" pricing and licensing model. Service providers always have access to the most current versions of Citrix products available in the program and only pay for actual end-user usage recorded during the previous calendar month. * Citrix NetScaler VPX VPX Virtual Path Cross-Connect VPX Vector Product Exchange VPX Video Post Sequence VPX Video Pixel Decoder - A virtual appliance An operating system and application designed for a virtual machine (VM) environment. The virtual appliance is packaged as a pre-installed system image for the particular hardware environment it is intended for, such as VMware, Xen or Microsoft's Virtual Server. version of Citrix[R] NetScaler[R] (see today's separate announcement), the new Citrix NetScaler VPX will be added to Citrix C3, enabling service providers to run multiple NetScaler instances simultaneously and provide true, cost-effective multi-tenancy web application delivery. In addition, service providers will be able to ensure the best application performance and most reliable service delivery by "cloud balancing," which allows load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them across multiple cloud infrastructures. * Citrix XenServer - One of the key components of Citrix C3, XenServer[TM] will soon be enhanced with a new distributed virtual switch add-on to enable secure, multi-tenant, highly scalable public clouds. The switch will partition network traffic on a per-application basis, with resource and security guarantees, and offer full visibility into and control over inter-VM traffic both within a server and virtual network overlay (1) A preprinted, precut form placed over a screen, key or tablet for identification purposes. See keyboard template. (2) A program segment called into memory when required. . Cloud-Proven Resources for SMBs and the Enterprise As cloud computing continues to ride the hype/awareness cycle, corporations of all sizes are contemplating how to incorporate the cloud into their long range plans from both technology and business process perspectives. To answer these needs, Citrix is now providing Citrix C3 Lab Blueprints, giving IT professionals a set of common scenarios to test and prototype application compatibility, stage applications, as well as gain experience in datacenter-cloud interactions. The Citrix C3 Lab Blueprints provide architectural overviews, deployment guides, tips and tricks and discussion forums. Availability Citrix C3, with XenApp and XenDesktop, is available today. The Citrix Service Provider Program will be effective starting June 1, 2009. A technological preview of NetScaler VPX will be available for free download from Citrix.com on May 18, 2009. A technological preview of XenServer virtual switch for XenServer 5.5 will be available for free download from Citrix.com on June 1, 2009. Access to the Citrix C3 Lab and Citrix C3 Lab Blueprints is available today - to get started please visit http://community.citrix.com/display/cdn/Citrix+C3+Lab. About Citrix C3 The Citrix Cloud Center (C3) is an integrated portfolio of Citrix delivery infrastructure products packaged and marketed to the cloud service provider market. C3 integrates cloud proven virtualization and networking products that power many of today's largest Internet and Web service providers. Citrix C3 is designed to give cloud providers a complete set of service delivery infrastructure building blocks for hosting, managing and delivering cloud-based computing services. C3 includes a reference architecture that combines the individual capabilities of several Citrix product lines to offer a powerful, dynamic, secure and highly available service-based infrastructure ideally suited to large-scale, on-demand delivery of both IT infrastructure and application services. About Citrix Synergy 2009 Born as a user conference more than 10 years ago, Citrix Synergy has been completely reconceived as the industry's premier thought leadership event where virtualization, networking and application delivery meet. Citrix Synergy combines several events into one registration, including Virtualization Congress, Network World Live, Geek Speak Geek speak may refer to:
About Citrix Systems, Inc. Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the leading provider of virtualization, networking and software-as-a-service technologies for more than 230,000 organizations worldwide. Its Citrix Delivery Center[TM], Citrix Cloud Center (C3) and Citrix Online Citrix Online is a division of Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) that sells Web-based remote access, support, and collaboration software and services. Its products are GoToAssist, GoToMeeting, GoToMyPC, and GoToWebinar. Services product families radically simplify computing for millions of users, delivering applications as an on-demand service to any user, in any location on any device. Citrix customers include the world's largest Internet companies, 99 percent of Fortune Global 500 enterprises, and hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers worldwide. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies worldwide in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1989, annual revenue in 2008 was $1.6 billion. For Citrix Investors This release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. which are made pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Those statements involve a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks associated with revenue growth and recognition of revenue, products, their development and distribution, product demand and pipeline, economic and competitive factors, the Company's key strategic relationships, acquisition and related integration risks as well as other risks detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Citrix assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein. Citrix[R], Citrix Cloud Center[TM], Citrix Delivery Center[TM], NetScaler[R], XenApp[TM], XenDesktop[TM] and XenServer[TM] are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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