Broad Industry Endorsement for Citrix CloudPlatform, Powered by Apache CloudStack

DUBAI, UAE -- April 16, 2014 -- Citrix today announced that leading companies across key industries are embracing Citrix CloudPlatform™ powered by Apache CloudStack to run their cloud environments. With more than 250 customer deployments to date, Citrix CloudPlatform cloud infrastructure platform is empowering top brands to transform their on-premise IT infrastructures into agile and efficient clouds, and provide application-centric cloud orchestration for any workload.

Apache CloudStack cloud orchestration and provisioning software has rapidly become the go-to open source platform for building, managing and delivering highly scalable clouds. As the first commercial version of Apache CloudStack, Citrix CloudPlatform enables businesses to take advantage of a variety of additional key benefits and features including:

  • An open, flexible, interoperable and extensible cloud infrastructure framework

  • Simple turnkey cloud orchestration and provisioning

  • Support for desktop, cloud-native and data center workloads

  • Enterprise-class multi-tenancy

  • Cloud-native scalability and operations

Citrix CloudPlatform Customers Across the Industry Spectrum

BT, Datacentrix, DU, Globo.com, Interoute Teleommunications, KDDI Corporation, NTT Communications, Zajil International Telecom Company and Zynga are among the organizations around the world deploying Citrix CloudPlatform in a wide range of markets, including telecommunications, media and advertising, and insurance. Examples of how these companies are leveraging Citrix CloudPlatform include:

BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications services and solutions, serving customers in more than 170 countries. BT developed Cloud Compute as an enhanced service that gives organizations the ability to build powerful 'pay as you go' cloud solutions they can access with consistent levels of quality and security wherever they are expanding. BT selected Citrix CloudPlatform because of its open platform, competitive pricing, scalability, multi-hypervisor support and proven performance in large scale cloud deployments.

Globo.com is the largest mass media group in Latin America and also owns companies in the food industry and the real estate and financial markets. With Citrix CloudPlatform, Globo.com was able to meet the needs of 23 internal development teams across multiple programming languages. With its self-service cloud, Globo.com can offer and track utilization in real time for bundles of IT services used by the internal development teams across multiple vendor technologies.

Interoute Telecommunications Ltd is a privately held telecommunications company that owns and operates Europe's largest cloud services platform. Interoute needed a more functional platform to expand and improve its IaaS cloud service delivery. With Citrix CloudPlatform, Interoute was able to quickly scale its services.

KDDI Corporation is the No. 2 telecommunications company in Japan. KDDI needed to diversify services across multiple networks and multiple devices. In addition to its private cloud services, the company was looking to offer public cloud services to its customers. Citrix CloudPlatform provided the openness, flexibility and product capabilities KDDI required, allowing KDDI to handle four to five times the number of new accounts with ease.

Zajil International Telecom Company is a leading data telecommunications and Internet solutions provider in the Middle East. Zajil wanted to become a leading provider of cloud and managed services, as well as the first telecom in the area to provide the latest cloud and technology services. Citrix CloudPlatform offered Zajil a simple platform, choice of virtualization platform, and the ability to deploy in less than four weeks.

About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leader in virtualization, networking and cloud services to enable new ways for people to work better. Citrix solutions help IT and service providers to build, manage and secure virtual and mobile workspaces that seamlessly deliver apps, desktops, data and services to anyone, on any device, over any network or cloud. This year Citrix is celebrating 25 years of innovation, making IT simpler and people more productive with mobile workstyles. With annual revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than 330,000 organizations and by over 100 million people globally. Learn more at www.citrix.com.

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