Virtualization News Desk
Citrix Sees Strong Growth in Pacific
Growth Driven by Surge In the Adoption of Virtualization and Demand for Web Application Delivery
Jun. 17, 2008 10:45 AM
Citrix announced that the demand for its application
delivery infrastructure in the Pacific region (Asia Pacific including Japan) is
fast growing as more businesses are seeking a dynamic and flexible way of
delivering applications and desktops to users anytime, anywhere.
As one of the fastest growing geographies with 28 percent
year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 2008, Citrix in the Pacific has a
strong installed base of 33,000 customers, representing 18 percent year-on-year
growth in new customers acquired in the year 2007.
Customers who have invested in Citrix application delivery
infrastructure solutions to address their business concerns and stay ahead of
the competition include China Mobile, Huawei Technologies, Mahindra and
Mahindra Finance, Newswire 18, Cathay Pacific, NTT Communications, American
International Underwriters, Samsung Construction, Australian Customs Service
and Marlborough Boys College.
“Our strong growth in the Pacific region is driven largely
by today’s fast-paced business environment involving an ever increasing number
of mobile workers, computing locations, applications and changing user
scenarios,” said Dennis Rose, Vice President, Pacific, Citrix Systems. “By
offering the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of application delivery
infrastructure solutions featuring a broad range of world-class products that
extend from the data center to the desktop, Citrix is delivering compelling
business value to its customers including maximizing their investments by
extending the life of desktops and mobile devices.”
“Citrix has a strong history of innovation and prides itself
in predicting and staying ahead of industry trends. In line with our vision for
application delivery infrastructure, for the next phase of our growth, we are
committing ourselves to transforming the static data centers into dynamic delivery
centers and enabling ‘green’ initiatives through end-to-end virtualization
technology,” he added.
Today, energy efficiency in the data center and on the desk
is a concern for busineses.
The key to any effective response to these challenges is to
be able to increase and maintain the capacity of IT infrastructure, while
reducing its energy consumption and saving costs. According to IDC’s
Asia/Pacific Green Poll conducted in January 2008, approximately 47 percent of
organizations in Asia Pacific including Japan will be formally assessing
their data centers with the goal of reducing power consumption in the coming
year. Furthermore, more than half of the Asia Pacific IT Executives surveyed
across Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Japan, Australia and New
Zealand stated that buying priorities in terms of ‘Green’ technologies would
focus on server and storage virtualization technologies, as well as more energy
efficient servers and PCs over the next 12 months.
By consolidating or offloading server workloads in the data
center and reducing the energy consumption of user devices in the office,
Citrix solutions effectively address these requirements and enable
organizations in any industry to “go green”. Moving forward, Citrix aims to
sustain its strong growth momentum in Pacific through two flagship products from
the Citrix Delivery Center
product family that support and deliver on the “green” promise: Citrix NetScaler MPX Web application delivery appliances and
the Citrix XenDesktop.
The other prime products from the Citrix Delivery
Center product family
that will be driving growth in Pacific include Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenApp
and the recently announced Citrix Branch Repeater.
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