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3PAR provides a leading, virtualized, utility storage platform addressing limitations of monolithic and modular arrays; reducing storage administration costs by up to 90 percent and infrastructure costs by up to 75 percent

–3PAR’s multi-tenant, clustered architecture enables IT organizations to deliver software and hardware as a service, offering an agile, efficient storage infrastructure platform optimized for highly-virtualized data centers and cloud computing

–3PAR accelerates Dell’s momentum in delivering open, capable and affordable storage options, adding to its industry-leading portfolio of PowerVault, EqualLogic and Dell/EMC

Dell has signed an agreement to acquire 3PAR, a leading global provider of highly-virtualized storage solutions with advanced data management features, including dynamic tiering and thin provisioning, for multi-tenant cloud-computing environments. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.15 billion, net of 3PAR’s cash. Terms of the acquisition were approved by the board of directors of each company.

In the ‘Virtual Era,’ Dell is driving an open and integrated approach to data management. Dell is delivering increased efficiency with a goal of radically reducing data management costs and significantly streamlining operations. These savings enable Dell customers to make room in their budgets for other strategic investments. 3PAR’s product portfolio complements Dell’s goal to make IT simpler and more affordable.

As a pioneer of thin provisioning and other storage virtualization technologies, 3PAR has designed its products to minimize upfront and ongoing capacity purchases, and to reduce power consumption and energy costs. 3PAR’s multi-tenant, clustered storage architecture is the underlying technology platform for IT organizations to build agile and efficient virtualized IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation. 3PAR provides rapid provisioning and predictable performance for customers facing ever-increasing storage capacity requirements.

3PAR’s storage arrays are designed to overcome the limitations of traditional modular and monolithic arrays. 3PAR addresses the problem of costly, complex, and rigid IT environments and enables organizations to treat storage as a utility – allowing them to use and pay for only the capacity and performance they need, and only when they use it.

Dell plans to make 3PAR an integral part of its industry-leading storage portfolio, including PowerVault, EqualLogic and Dell/EMC. With 3PAR, Dell will offer innovative systems and customer choice at every storage tier, from direct-attach to highly-virtualized, clustered SANS.

3PAR was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Fremont. After closing, Dell plans to maintain and invest in additional engineering and sales capability. There are no plans to move the current operations.

Tender Offer, Closing and Initial Integration

Under the terms of the agreement, Dell will commence a tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of 3PAR for $18 per share in cash. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close before the end of the year.

Based on current estimates, the transaction is expected to be accretive to Dell non-GAAP earnings in its Fiscal Year 2012.

Quotes

“We have aligned our storage offerings over the last several years to provide our customers choice and value,” said Brad Anderson, Dell senior vice president, Enterprise Product Group. “3PAR brings the same values of performance, agility and ease-of-use to higher end, virtualized storage deployments as EqualLogic does for the entry-level and mid-range, rounding out our industry-leading solutions portfolio.”

“3PAR has consistently provided customers with the ability to do more with less,” said David Scott, President and CEO of 3PAR. “With Dell we combine a powerful, virtualized storage platform with an outstanding distribution network to deliver this value to an even broader set of customers.”

Analyst Teleconferences

To hear a related financial analyst call with Dell and 3PAR executives (”live” at 8:15 a.m. EDT today, then later via replay), go to www.Dell.com/investor.

Links

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Dell Storage

About Dell

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About 3PAR

3PAR(R) /quotes/comstock/13*!par/quotes/nls/par (PAR 27.04, +0.95, +3.64%) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized, dynamically tiered, multi-tenant storage arrays built for public and private cloud computing. Our virtualized storage platform was built from the ground up to be agile and efficient and to eliminate the limitations of traditional storage arrays for utility infrastructures. As a pioneer of thin provisioning and other storage virtualization technologies, we design our products to reduce power consumption to help companies meet their green computing initiatives and to cut storage total cost of ownership. 3PAR customers have used our self-managing, efficient, and adaptable utility storage systems to reduce administration time and provisioning complexity, to improve server and storage utilization, and to scale and adapt flexibly in response to continuous growth and changing business needs. For more information, visit the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com.

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Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others.

The planned tender offer described in this release has not yet commenced. The description contained in this release is not an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell securities. At the time the planned tender offer is commenced, Dell will file a tender offer statement on Schedule TO with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), and 3PAR will file a solicitation/recommendation statement on Schedule 14D-9 with respect to the planned tender offer. The tender offer statement (including an offer to purchase, a related letter of transmittal and other tender offer documents) and the solicitation/recommendation statement will contain important information that should be read carefully before making any decision to tender securities in the planned tender offer. Those materials will be made available to 3PAR’s stockholders at no expense to them. In addition, all of those materials (and all other tender offer documents filed with the SEC) will be made available at no charge on the SEC’s website: www.sec.gov.

Statements in this release that relate to future results and events are forward-looking statements based on Dell’s and 3PAR’s current expectations, respectively. Actual results and events in future periods may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements because of a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including the expected benefits and costs of the transaction; management plans relating to the transaction; the expected timing of the completion of the transaction; the ability to complete the transaction; any statements of the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations, including the execution of integration plans; any statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that expected benefits may not materialize as expected; that the transaction may not be timely completed, if at all; that, prior to the completion of the transaction, 3PAR’s business may experience disruptions due to transaction-related uncertainty or other factors making it more difficult to maintain relationships with employees, licensees, other business partners or governmental entities; that the parties are unable to successfully implement integration strategies; and other risks that are described in Dell’s and 3PAR’s Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to the risks described in Dell’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended January 29, 2010 and 3PAR’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010. Dell and 3PAR assume no obligation and do not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

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Virtensys’, Ltd, a provider of I/O virtualization solutions for data centers, today announced that Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, has successfully deployed the Virtensys I/O virtualization (IOV) solution in the company’s data center. The VIO-4001 IOV appliance met the performance requirements and delivered the full network connectivity bandwidth at 10 Gbps to standard server environments while reducing costs and complexity.

“Virtensys I/O virtualization systems show good capabilities as we upgrade our infrastructure,” said Hasmukh Ranjan, VP of IT for Synopsys. ‘We were impressed to see that deploying the VIO-4001 did not require any changes to our existing environment.’

‘We are pleased to add Synopsys to our growing list of customers,’ said Ahmet Houssein, president and CEO of Virtensys. ‘Synopsys was able to take advantage of the benefits that our I/O virtualization appliances bring to today’s data centers. Our products remove the rigid constraints of traditional I/O deployments from servers and provide the flexibility and agility that organizations need in their IT infrastructure.’

About Virtensys I/O Virtualization Solutions

The award-winning VIO-4000 series consolidate and share server I/O resources. The I/O virtualization appliances connect to servers via the native PCI Express interconnect and eliminate network and storage cables, as well as access layer switches from the racks. This reduces I/O power consumption, capital equipment costs, number of cables, server management complexity, and operational expenses by more than 60 percent. The VIO-4000 series are the industry’s only I/O virtualization solutions that are deployed without any modification to the existing servers or networks in the data center, and support all the major networking and storage connectivity, including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI and SAS/SATA. The VIO-4000 series deliver the industry’s best server I/O price/performance and lowest energy consumption for accessing network and storage infrastructures through traditional or converged networks.

About Virtensys Ltd

Virtensys develops industry-leading, patented PCI Express-based I/O virtualization technologies for servers and storage platforms, revolutionizing the way I/O infrastructures are deployed and used in data centers, and delivering significant improvements in I/O utilization, cost, performance, power consumption, and management. The deployment of the IOV switches is totally non-disruptive and dramatically reduces IT complexity and expenses. The company was founded in December 2005 by leading technologists in the fields of high-performance switching, networking, and systems design, and is backed by several premier technology venture capital firms. For more information, visit www.virtensys.com.

The Virtensys name and logo are trademarks of Virtensys, Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Virtensys(TM), Ltd, a provider of I/O virtualization solutions for data centers, today announced that Synopsys, Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!snps/quotes/nls/snps  (SNPS  22.09, +0.32, +1.47%) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, has successfully deployed the Virtensys I/O virtualization (IOV) solution in the company’s data center. The VIO-4001 IOV appliance met the performance requirements and delivered the full network connectivity bandwidth at 10 Gbps to standard server environments while reducing costs and complexity.

“Virtensys I/O virtualization systems show good capabilities as we upgrade our infrastructure,” said Hasmukh Ranjan, VP of IT for Synopsys. “We were impressed to see that deploying the VIO-4001 did not require any changes to our existing environment.”

“We are pleased to add Synopsys to our growing list of customers,” said Ahmet Houssein, president and CEO of Virtensys. “Synopsys was able to take advantage of the benefits that our I/O virtualization appliances bring to today’s data centers. Our products remove the rigid constraints of traditional I/O deployments from servers and provide the flexibility and agility that organizations need in their IT infrastructure.”

About Virtensys I/O Virtualization Solutions

The award-winning VIO-4000 series consolidate and share server I/O resources. The I/O virtualization appliances connect to servers via the native PCI Express(R) interconnect and eliminate network and storage cables, as well as access layer switches from the racks. This reduces I/O power consumption, capital equipment costs, number of cables, server management complexity, and operational expenses by more than 60 percent. The VIO-4000 series are the industry’s only I/O virtualization solutions that are deployed without any modification to the existing servers or networks in the data center, and support all the major networking and storage connectivity, including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI and SAS/SATA. The VIO-4000 series deliver the industry’s best server I/O price/performance and lowest energy consumption for accessing network and storage infrastructures through traditional or converged networks.

About Virtensys Ltd

Virtensys develops industry-leading, patented PCI Express(R)-based I/O virtualization technologies for servers and storage platforms, revolutionizing the way I/O infrastructures are deployed and used in data centers, and delivering significant improvements in I/O utilization, cost, performance, power consumption, and management. The deployment of the IOV switches is totally non-disruptive and dramatically reduces IT complexity and expenses. The company was founded in December 2005 by leading technologists in the fields of high-performance switching, networking, and systems design, and is backed by several premier technology venture capital firms. For more information, visit www.virtensys.com.

The Virtensys name and logo are trademarks of Virtensys, Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

SOURCE: Virtensys, Ltd

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Georgiana Comsa, 408-435-1500 (U.S.)
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or
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Aberdeen’s recent research report, Why are IT Leaders Deploying Virtualized Storage, shows that companies that have deployed storage virtualization are gaining great operational and financial returns on their investment.

The report, Why are IT Leaders Deploying Virtualized Storage, announced today by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company /quotes/comstock/13*!hhs/quotes/nls/hhs (HHS 10.31, -0.46, -4.27%) , features research based on a survey of the virtualization practices of over 180 worldwide companies.

Aberdeen found that formal training and certification for virtual tool administrators, adding virtual I/O capabilities, and standardizing on one type of server were among the most important factors in gaining advantages from storage virtualization products.

You can access a complimentary copy of the report Why are IT Leaders Deploying Virtualized Storage by visiting http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410182&cid=6499&camp=2.

Aberdeen’s research found:

–  Five of the top six pressures cited by survey respondents on why they
have deployed storage virtualization come from the continuing demand
to provide more storage and computing capacity. Far and away the
number one pressure, cited by 84% of responding organizations, was the
increasing demand for more storage.
–  Five of the top six benefits from deploying storage virtualization
cited by respondents are operational, and not financial. Sixty-three
percent (63%) reported that virtualization reduced the effort to
manage their SANs.
–  Companies with virtualized storage show a wider range of
virtualization projects across the organization than those with no
storage virtualization. They are more likely to have server
virtualization (95% vs. 73% for those who have not virtualized their
storage), purchase servers designed for virtualization (74% vs. 40%),
have a converged network (49% vs. 15%), and have virtualized their
desktops (35% vs. 18%).

“Companies that have deployed storage virtualization products are gaining great operational advantages,” says Dick Csaplar, Senior Research Analyst and author of the study. “Forty-eight percent (48%) of those that have deployed storage virtualization report reducing the number of SAN devices in their infrastructure and 44% report a reduced time to deploy new applications and servers.”

Visit Research.Aberdeen.com for additional access to complimentary Information Technology Research.

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Aberdeen provides fact-based research and market intelligence that delivers demonstrable results. Having studied more than 30,000 companies in the past two years, Aberdeen educates users to action by driving market awareness, creating demand, enabling sales, and delivering meaningful return-on-investment analysis. As the trusted advisor to the global technology markets, corporations turn to Aberdeen(TM) for insights that drive decisions.

As a Harte-Hanks Company, Aberdeen places content in context for the global direct and targeted marketing company. Aberdeen’s analytical and independent view of Harte-Hanks’ “customer optimization” process (Information – Opportunity – Insight – Engagement – Interaction) extends the client value and accentuates the strategic role Harte-Hanks brings to the market. For additional information, visit Aberdeen http://www.aberdeen.com or call (617) 723-7890, or to learn more about Harte-Hanks, call (800) 456-9748 or go to http://www.harte-hanks.com.

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Today at Citrix Synergy(TM), the event where virtualization, networking and cloud computing meet, Citrix Systems, Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!ctxs/quotes/nls/ctxs  (CTXS  44.00, -0.75, -1.68%)  announced seven new turnkey solutions that make it easy for cloud providers to deliver practical business services to enterprise customers. The new solutions leverage core Citrix virtualization and networking technologies that are used daily to power the world’s largest and most demanding cloud and internet sites. Unlike proprietary solutions from other virtualization vendors, however, the new Citrix Cloud Solution portfolio is based on an open framework that allows cloud providers to add their own innovation to each solution, creating unique, differentiated services that address real business needs.

Not Just a Carbon Copy of Your Datacenter

“Some vendors would have you believe that the cloud is merely a carbon copy of your enterprise datacenter that should be offloaded to someone else,” said Klaus Oestermann, Group VP and GM, Networking and Cloud Product Group, Citrix. “Citrix believes in a far more open world where customers can choose from a wide variety of innovative cloud services designed to enhance and extend their own internal IT capacity. These cloud services should work with whatever enterprise customers currently have — not because they are all built on the same locked-down, cookie-cutter virtualization platform, but because they are designed around an open framework that encourages both innovation and interoperability.”

Key Solution Highlights

The new Citrix Cloud Solutions are based on an open technology stack with deep interoperability between layers, enabling enterprises to leverage existing investments, including third-party virtualization technologies and tools. Unique integration of Citrix platform virtualization, edge networking, and desktop delivery services are augmented with targeted capabilities aligned to specific workloads, such as application lifecycle management, migration and regulatory compliance.

By targeting the practical business-oriented scenarios that make the most sense for customers to purchase as a cloud service, Citrix is focusing its strategy on a more pragmatic approach to cloud computing that meets the real-world needs of customers today. Customer choice is built into each solution as a key tenet with technologies designed to transcend traditional datacenter and networking boundaries, providing unfettered mobility of application workloads among multiple cloud providers without requiring forklift upgrades of existing infrastructure. In addition, customers can be confident with the assurance that the solutions have been verified via the Citrix Ready program. The initial Citrix Cloud Solutions include:

– On-Boarding — Enables seamless migration of existing applications and workloads into cloud infrastructures, including secure access, optimized network delivery, virtual machine migration and full support for the open virtualization format (OVF). Services based on this solution can dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of datacenter-to-cloud migration.

– Development and Test — Incorporates on-demand application lifecycle management to help organizations cut both the time and budget required to set-up and allocate new infrastructure for test and development workloads in the cloud.

– Disaster Recovery — Helps customers prevent unexpected interruptions to applications and data by leveraging virtualization, storage, data replication and orchestration services to support cloud-based delivery of disaster recovery services. Cloud providers delivering services based on this solution can offer customers a compelling alternative to dedicated ‘hot-site’ standby facilities.

– Compliance — Helps customers in regulated industries meet strict compliance requirements, while providing unparalleled control over sensitive data stored in both enterprise datacenters and public clouds. This approach reduces compliance costs, allowing customers to focus on their core competencies, while bringing proven expertise to industry-specific compliance mandates.

– On-Demand Applications — Transforms traditional Windows enterprise applications into a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that can be delivered over the web as an on-demand service to users anywhere, on any device.

– On-Demand Desktops — Enables enterprise customers to deliver complete Windows virtual desktops from the cloud, combining the cost and manageability benefits of desktop virtualization with cloud elasticity and capacity-on-demand.

– On-Demand Demos — Lets software companies make their product demos available to customers and prospects over the web with no setup, downloads or configuration required.

Availability

Starting today and continuing throughout 2010, Citrix Cloud Solutions will be available from leading cloud service providers.

Please see separate announcements today from the following providers announcing further details of their solutions:

SoftLayer (On-boarding and On-Demand Demos)

Carpathia (Development and Test)

Terremark (Compliance)

Quotes

Frank Gens, SVP and Chief Analyst, IDC

“Citrix is effectively addressing both cloud service providers and the enterprise with its new cloud solution strategy. The pragmatic, workload-focused approach will be appealing to the CIOs, while the ability to leverage technology stacks, programs and templates and turn them into cloud services for enterprise customers is a much-needed solution for cloud service providers. Citrix shows promise to be a leading force in bringing cloud to the enterprise.”

Antonio Piraino, Vice President of Research, Tier1 Research:

“The real opportunity in the cloud resides within the enterprise sector — an area that top managed hosting providers are beginning to target. In order to penetrate that end of the market, the next generation of cloud enablement technologies will need to focus on individual workloads and verticals that demand unique requirements from their cloud environment. Equally important becomes the ability to maintain the availability, lifecycle and portability of those workloads while retaining the integrity of the experience and security to assigned users.”

Peter Weber, CEO, Carpathia:

“Application development and test is a key workload for our enterprise and government customers. Carpathia InstantOn Virtual Lab Solutions — based upon the Citrix Cloud Solution for Development and Test — adds critical application lifecycle management services to the Carpathia InstantOn cloud, making it easy for our customers to tap cloud capacity for their dev and test workloads.”

Phil Grove, Global Director of End User Services, CSC:

“CSC Dynamic Desktop, powered by Citrix XenDesktop, takes advantage of Citrix Cloud Services for On-Demand Desktops delivering our clients’ agility, security and cost benefits in private clouds. Using CSC’s case driven consultative deployment approach and leveraging our strategic partnership with Citrix enables us to provide our clients enterprise desktop as a service — an innovative, high quality, leadership service.”

Robert Bye, Vice President and General Manager, nGenX:

“Application management is becoming increasingly complex and costly for organizations, and the growing demand for more mobile and flexible work environments adds to these challenges. The Citrix Cloud Solution for On-Demand Applications makes it easy for us to transform any Windows application into a cloud service and deliver it on demand. As a result, we have been able to lower our customers’ IT costs, provide a better user experience and enable greater productivity, while improving data security.”

Lance Crosby, CEO, SoftLayer:

“The Virtual Demo Center, running on SoftLayer CloudLayer, shows the value the cloud can bring to independent software vendors. Using the Citrix Cloud Solution for On-Demand Demos, SoftLayer can enable ISVs to stand-up fully isolated PoC environments on-demand without having to burden the sales force, channel or customers with concerns over provisioning and configuring the PoC hardware and software capacity. And to make migrating application workloads to our CloudLayer platform as seamless as possible, SoftLayer will also work with Citrix to provide a turnkey Onboarding solution.”

Marvin Wheeler, Chief Strategy Officer, Terremark:

“Maintaining the physical, technical and process controls, as well as the reporting necessary, to meet today’s industry and government compliance mandates is one of the most expensive tasks our enterprise and federal customers face. At Terremark, we are widely recognized for the highly compliant nature of our cloud computing solutions. By incorporating Citrix NetScaler VPX, a key enabling technology within the Citrix Cloud Solution for Compliance, Terremark can provide our cloud computing customers even greater levels of compliance at a lower cost.”

Related Links and Announcements

– Video: Citrix Cloud Solutions overview

– Cloud Blog Series — May 1 – A Synergy Theme – Toward the Enterprise Ready Cloud, by Simon Crosby, CTO, Datacenter and Cloud Division, Citrix

– May 4 – Knowing What You Don’t Know, by Sunil Potti, VP of product management and product marketing, Networking and Cloud Product Group, Citrix

– May 5 – To Be or Not to Be Cloud, by Roger Klorese, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Networking and Cloud Product Group, Citrix

– May 6 – Countering the Race-To-The-Bottom, by Sunil Potti, VP of Product Management and Product Marketing, Networking and Cloud Product Group, Citrix

– May 11 – Pushing Apps Uphill, by Pete Downing, Principal Product Manager, Networking and Cloud Product Group, Citrix

– May 12 – Citrix Synergy – The Forecast is Cloudy, by Roger Klorese, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Networking and Cloud Product Group, Citrix

– May 13 — Introducing Citrix Cloud Solutions. Charting a Pragmatic Path Forward, by Sunil Potti, VP of Product Management and Product Marketing, Networking and Cloud Product Group, Citrix

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– Citrix Cloud Solutions page

– Citrix Ready Cloud Solutions page

– Citrix Synergy 2010 and Citrix Synergy Press pages

– Twitter: @Citrix, #citrixsynergy

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About Citrix Synergy 2010

Born as a user conference more than 10 years ago, Citrix Synergy(TM) will present the best ideas from leaders in virtualization, cloud computing and networking to help you build a simpler and more cost-effective IT environment. Citrix Synergy San Francisco takes place May 12 to 14, 2010, at Moscone West Convention Center. Citrix Synergy Berlin will be held at the Estrel Hotel and Convention Center, Oct. 6 to 7, 2010. More information is available on the Citrix Synergy web site at http://www.citrixsynergy.com.

About Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!ctxs/quotes/nls/ctxs (CTXS 44.00, -0.75, -1.68%) 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.

For Citrix Investors

This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor 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.

The development, release and timing of any features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion and is subject to change without notice or consultation. The information provided is for informational purposes only and is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions or incorporated into any contract.

Citrix(R), Citrix Synergy(TM), XenDesktop(R), XenServer(R) and NetScaler(R) VPX(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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There is no question, virtualization is here to stay and it is one of the most significant enabling technologies for efficiently delivering cloud computing. “So what?” you might ask. Whether you are the consumer of, or a supplier of computing technology within retail, cloud computing is the most significant technology game changer to hit the industry since scanning, and you should care because it is going to change the way IT gets done in this industry. You need to be ready.

Quite a prediction. What does it mean? Some may look at this whole area of cloud computing and say, “What is old is new again,” because we are simply going back to the service bureaus of days gone by. While on some level that is true, the benefits are far greater this time around. Whether you call it cloud computing or SaaS (software as a service) or utility-based computing or any number of near-synonyms, the concept has been around for quite some time but has never quite been perfected, and the reasons for that vary.

Numerous organizations offer an ASP model re-branded as SaaS, but were never able to take it all the way to a utility model. Others provide cloud computing but only for a portion of what the retailer needs. Others will argue that only certain components of a retailer’s suite should be outsourced as SaaS. Many discussion groups in our new social mediums have started up on this topic and they are full of folks talking about RIA (rich Internet applications), SOA (service oriented architecture), smart clients, virtualization at POS —you name the buzz word and it’s in there — all of which circle around the topic of the future of cloud computing but miss the mark because they focus on the how, not the why. What Gartner is saying in their quote above — and this is the crux of the paradigm shift that cloud computing creates — is that organizations are going to get out of the IT business. Why? Because there is no longer any strategic value in owning and operating your own IT. So given that, it would follow that if a retailer subscribes to this notion, they don’t care how the service gets delivered, just that their business needs are met. It’s like when you subscribe to an online CRM system. You don’t care what brand of routers are As seen in the 04/05/10 edition of the Retail Solutions Online (www.retailsolutionsonline.com) newsletter. used or which backend database everything resides on or what hardware it runs on and how you keep that current. You just care that your business needs are met.

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Virtualization’s promise to cut costs, increase business agility, and reduce carbon footprints is often threatened when organizations begin to deploy a large number of VMs. In other words, going from 10 VMs to 100s of VMs may turn virtualization’s money-saving benefits into a money-losing proposition unless achieving scale with virtualization is done properly. This summit will present the latest innovations and best practices for achieving agility, simplicity, and business value through server virtualization environments. Presenters will cover the benefits of network-attached storage (NAS), storage management solutions, and guidelines for efficiency and ROI.

Join experts from Isilon, DMTF, Enterprise Strategy Group and more to learn the latest innovations and best practices for achieving agility, simplicity, and business value in this free, interactive online event: Virtualization Simplicity at Scale Summit. http://www.brighttalk.com/summit/virtualizationsimplicity

WHEN: Thursday, March 25, 2010, from 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. PDT (The webcasts will also be immediately recorded and viewable on-demand at BrightTALK)

TOPICS AND PRESENTERS:
Storage Simplicity Drives Business Agility
Shai Harmelin, Senior Solutions Architect, Isilon

Simplifying Virtualization Management and Preparing for the Cloud
Winston Bumpus, President, DMTF

Virtual Revolution and Storage
Simon Robinson, Research Director, Storage, The 451 Group

Virtualization at the Nation’s Busiest Public Library
Ranjan Prasad, Technology Architect, Cincinnati Public Library

Virtualized Scale-Out NAS: Flexible, On-Demand Data Services
Terri McClure, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc.

10 Simple Rules for Storage in a Dynamic Virtualized Environment
Curtis Walters, Senior Systems Engineer, Accunet

The Case for Scale-Out NAS
George Crump, Chief Steward, Storage Switzerland LLC

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Expand Networks www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, has taken another significant step in its virtualized product strategy with the launch of ExpandView Virtual. ExpandView is a fully featured centralized management system that overcomes the challenges associated with large scale deployment, configuration, proactive reporting and alerting across its range of physical and virtual Accelerator devices, and within physical or virtual environments. ExpandView delivers ‘Application fluent network visibility’ to optimize application performance and bandwidth utilization and provides ‘trend analysis reporting’  to proactively warn of, and control, potential capacity challenges.

“We continue to take an infrastructure agnostic approach to WAN optimization”

The launch of ExpandView Virtual is a key element of Expand’s continued focus of giving enterprise IT the most flexible deployment options available as they look to take full advantage of the cost and complexity savings that a virtualized infrastructure offers. With ExpandView Virtual organizations are able to deploy on their hardware infrastructure of choice resulting in greater flexibility, simplicity and scalability.

ExpandView Virtual is an ideal solution for enterprises with a centralized datacenter environment running virtual servers. Its ability to be deployed as an image on a virtual machine overcomes the traditional challenges previously associated with installation, configuration and management presented by heterogeneous hardware environments and operating system configurations. Allowing for rapid provisioning, extreme scalability and ease of management enabling organizations to more effectively and efficiently deploy, configure and manage Expand Accelerators, be they virtual or physical, ExpandView Virtual thereby removes complexity, increases productivity and reduces total cost of ownership.

ExpandView Virtual is also well suited for telcos, managed service providers and cloud providers offering WAN optimization-as-a-service; grid computing solutions and cloud based services. With its powerful Virtual Customer Partitioning (VCP) capability, ExpandView Virtual enables services to scale easily; organizations are able to support as many Accelerators as required by running multiple instances of ExpandView Virtual. Enabling a virtual instance of ExpandView per customer on a single hardware platform decreases the dedicated hardware footprint, reduces cost and simplifies management for service providers.

“We continue to take an infrastructure agnostic approach to WAN optimization,” explained Adam Davison, corporate VP sales & marketing at Expand. “As more and more organizations look to take advantage of virtualization technologies in delivering business agility, commercial growth and competitive advantage it is critical that we offer them a solution that is complementary with their infrastructure of choice. With our range of virtual and physical appliances, coupled with our newly launched ExpandView Virtual management solution and virtualized licensing model, we believe we have the most flexible, scalable and cost-effective WAN optimization solutions in the market.”

Following the successful launch last year of its Virtual Accelerator (VACC), Expand continues to see heightened interest from its customers and the market around its product virtualization roadmap as organizations look to take advantage of the cost and complexity savings offered by a virtualized infrastructure. Expand’s WAN optimization strategy is fully focused on delivering real benefits to its customers by enabling major IT initiatives including branch office virtualization and consolidation and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

Follow these links for more information on ExpandView Virtual for enterprise and service providers.

Contacts

Cohesive Communications for Expand Networks
Jennifer Manning/Mark Waite
+44 (0) 1291 626200
expand@cohesive.uk.com
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Virtualization is one of the hottest trends in IT, and for good reason. Virtualization can help save your organization plenty of money, as well as reduce your overall ongoing staffing, support and maintenance needs.

Still, virtualization isn’t a universal remedy. There are several things virtualization can’t do for your organization, and understanding the limitations of virtualization is as important as understanding the benefits.

Here are some of the biggest virtualization myths:

1.    Virtual machines have higher availablility and reliability. This is one of the “features” of virtualization that vendors often talk about. They point out how applications can easily be restarted during an outage, for example. Unfortunately, virtualization also creates a single point of failure in the one physical machine. Complement your virtualization with orchestration management, however, and you can actually wind up increasing both availability and reliability.

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virtualization will allow applications to perform exactly as they did before. The fact of the matter is that performance is likely to degrade. The degree to which it degrades depends on the physical hardware of the server, as well as the rest of the server environment. In many cases, the degredation will be so small as to be irrelevant, however.
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3.    Virtualization always saves money. To be sure, most virtualization implementations will reduce the total cost of ownership. However, it’s important to recognize that some of the potential savings have to do with staffing levels. If you virtualize a great deal of your environment but still wind up having to staff the same number of admins or engineers, or if you’re not willing to downsize some, you’re going to wind up paying more in the long run.

4.    Virtualization is important for SOA. Some SOA applications do provide good prospects for virtual machines. The application services can be encapsulated, and then hosted on as many machines as the organzation needs. Still, there are many other factors as to whether virtualization will perform for SOA, including communications architecture, application design and host configuration.

5.    Virtualization is more secure. In some ways, virtualization makes security resposne more effecient. If a single virtual machine is breached, then that machine can be stopped and reloaded without impacting other virtual machines. Still, the virtual machine technological layer may or may not be secure in and of itself, and virtual machines that have been compromised could have also corrupted shared data.

6.    Any organization can be ready for virtualization. There are many issues that have to be addressed before virtualization can be considered, such as managment team issues, development  issues and process issues. This is to say nothing of the potential human impact of virtualization, and the political fallout it could cause in a larger environment. A rush to virtualize can cause catastrophic damage in other areas.

7.    Virtualization doesn’t require specialized knowledge. Regardless of what proponents might say, adding an entirely new layer of software and migrating applicaitons from individual servers to a single larger machine takes some knowledge, both in terms of the virtualization technology and in the application area.

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