Citrix to Host Seminar Series on Virtualization Featuring Leading Industry Analyst Firm; Four-City Roadshow to Spotlight the Security, Compliance and Business Continuity Benefits Achieved Through Application Virtualization.FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla. -- 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:CTXS CTXS Citrix Systems (NASDAQ stock ticker symbol) ), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions, today announced that it will be hosting a series of seminars featuring Gartner, Inc. focusing on the business benefits gained through application virtualization A smaller umbrella term within the larger umbrella term of "virtualization." It refers to several techniques that make running applications more protected, more flexible or easier to manage. See virtualization, network virtualization and storage virtualization. . Intended for IT executives, the 'live' breakfast seminar series will be held in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Boston, Chicago and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , and feature Mark Margevicius, research vice president at Gartner as well as executives from application virtualization pioneer Citrix Systems. Whether distributed by choice (through outsourcing, regional expansion and new work-life policies) or by circumstance (from weather, natural or man-made disasters, or a pandemic pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik) 1. a widespread epidemic of a disease. 2. widely epidemic. pan·dem·ic adj. Epidemic over a wide geographic area. n. event), a distributed workforce is a norm rather than an exception of business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets today. As a result, organizations today face two opposing forces Those forces used in an enemy role during NATO exercises. See also force(s). : an increasingly dispersed workforce and an urgent need to stringently control information. Application virtualization serves both requirements by both centralizing cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. and consolidating applications and data within the datacenter and enabling the same secured anywhere-access from the office, home, partner site, outsourcing vendor or road. IT organizations gain control and are better able to manage the risks of intellectual property containment, while workers gain flexibility and mobility. This seminar series will aim to show IT executives how to ensure that their infrastructures can support these new workforce realities while retaining control over applications and information. Application virtualization plays a strategic role in this effort by centralizing applications and data, consolidating control and maximizing IT efficiency. The seminars will focus on: --Where application virtualization fits into an overall IT 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. strategy --How application virtualization addresses common business imperatives, such as pandemic preparation --The economic and technology trends driving adoption --Where application virtualization and related technologies are headed
Seminars will be held in the below locations and dates:
-- Tuesday, August 15, 2006
The Ritz Carlton
50 Central Park South
New York, NY 10019
-- Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Westin Copley
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
-- Tuesday, August 29, 2006
The Westin Chicago
320 North Dearborn
Chicago, IL 60610
-- Thursday, August 31, 2006
The Ritz-Carlton
600 Stockton
San Francisco, CA 94108
For more information, please visit http://www.citrixvirtualization.com. About Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and most trusted name in on-demand access. More than 180,000 organizations around the world rely on Citrix to provide the best possible access experience to any application for any user. 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 individuals. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Citrix annual revenues in 2005 were $909 million. Learn more at http://www.citrix.com. For Citrix Investors This release contains forward-looking statements 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) is a registered trademark of Citrix Systems, Inc. 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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