Latest NetScaler Release is First in Industry to Integrate Market-Leading Application Firewall, SSL VPN and End User Experience Monitoring to Support Increasingly Complex Web Applications

AppExpert Visual Policy Builder Sets New Ease-of-use Standard for Configuring Powerful Application and User Specific Policies

Dubai -- May 21, 2007

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced the newest version of its NetScaler product line, extending its ability to deliver web-based applications with the fastest performance, best security and lowest total cost of ownership. This newest release enables companies to keep pace with growing application complexity and rapidly rising user expectations by making it dramatically easier to set precise policies to match any application and user scenario. With significant new capabilities such as easy graphical policy configuration, full transaction-level application intelligence, integrated SSL VPN and web application firewall, as well as built-in end user experience monitoring, Citrix® NetScaler® 8.0 redefines the state-of-the-art in application delivery, making it far easier and more cost effective to deliver web-based applications to any user, on any device, in any location.

With the emergence of new technology trends such as Web 2.0, enterprise mash-ups and services oriented architectures (SOA), enterprise application environments are growing increasingly diverse and complex. At the same time, the growing popularity of highly interactive consumer web environments such as MySpace, You Tube and Google are dramatically resetting user expectations for what an enterprise web application experience should be like. With an estimated 75 percent of all Internet users going through a Citrix NetScaler system on any given day, Citrix has long been the leader in application delivery infrastructure for the world's most demanding consumer web applications. The new NetScaler 8.0 release brings much of that experience to the world of enterprise web applications, giving IT administrators unprecedented ability to improve the experience of corporate application users.    

To achieve these goals, the new NetScaler 8.0 release offers two significant areas of innovation. First, it sets a new standard in controlling application and user specific policies with its AppExpert Policy Framework and makes those policies far easier to configure with its groundbreaking AppExpert Visual Policy Builder. Second, it tightly integrates adjacent Citrix infrastructure technologies that are frequently deployed along the line-of-sight between web applications and users, becoming the first application delivery controller on the market to offer fully integrated SSL VPN for intelligent application access security, web application firewall for application and data protection, and end user experience monitoring to measure application performance from the perspective of the end user. Each of these newly integrated capabilities plugs into the AppExpert Policy Framework giving administrators unprecedented control over the entire web application delivery process.

According to Gartner, Inc.1, "The application acceleration market addresses one of the most important problems facing IT organizations today -- the reliable, dependable delivery of new and existing applications across LANs and WANs. Application acceleration appliances enable server/data center consolidation and deployment of browser-based application interfaces while lowering total cost of ownership."

These new capabilities make Citrix NetScaler 8.0 the most strategic infrastructure for delivering any web application to any user in any location.  Highlights include AppExpert policy framework, AppExpert visual policy builder, AppExpert developer APIs, built-in end user experience Monitoring, integrated web application security, integrated SSL VPN for secure application access, improved Ease-of-Use and enhanced optimization and scalability.

"Companies are more and more under the pressure to deliver the greatest experience possible for web application users," says Antoine Aguado, Regional Manager, Citrix Middle East "As the trend in moving applications to the web evolves across all industries and markets, the Citrix NetScaler product line allows companies of all sizes to optimize, secure, and simplify the delivery of their web applications."

"Mirroring global trends, the Middle Eastern economy is also looking to deploy data-intensive web applications for critical operations. This has a direct implication on the need for enhanced performance and tighter security, while providing users with the ability to scale with growth. Definitely, key verticals such as healthcare, government, financial services and others are bound to benefit from the latest version of Netscaler 8.0," he adds.

NetScaler is a key offering in Citrix's portfolio of end-to-end application delivery infrastructure solutions. With these products, Citrix offers customers the most complete solution for delivering any application, to any user, in any location with the best performance, security and cost savings.

Citrix NetScaler 8.0 is available today through authorized NetScaler resellers worldwide.  Citrix EdgeSight for NetScaler will be available in the new Citrix NetScaler Platinum Edition, which is scheduled for general availability in Q2 2007. Citrix Application Firewall and Citrix Access Gateway are available as standalone appliances, or can be deployed as integrated software modules on a NetScaler 8.0 system.

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