Citrix Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2011 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure

Citrix Systems, Inc. today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the "2011 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure¹” report by Thomas Bittman, vice president and distinguished analyst. The report evaluates Citrix XenServer®, a key component of the company’s virtualization and cloud computing strategy. For its evaluation of the server virtualization market, Gartner highlighted that "vendor understanding and articulation of the strategic path for virtualization (expanding into the foundation for the future of infrastructure architecture and operations, and extending toward cloud computing) is particularly important and differentiating.”

The full 2011 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure report can be viewed on the Citrix website.

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N. Louis Shipley, Group VP and GM, XenServer Product Group, Citrix

"Citrix XenServer continues to gain market momentum, fueled by the strong leadership position of Xen in the world’s largest and most successful public clouds, as well as our continued innovations to advance the state-of-the-art in network and desktop virtualization.”

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About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Citrix

Citrix Systems (”Citrix”) (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 more than 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was $1.87 billion. For more information on Citrix, visit www.citrix.com.

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¹ Gartner "2011 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure” by Thomas Bittman, George Weiss, Mark Margevicius and Philip Dawson, June 2011