Say Goodnight to Wasted Power:
Citrix Drives Energy Efficiency Through the Datacenter with HP

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at Citrix iForum™, the world’s largest application delivery conference, Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) announced a unique new PowerSmart capability designed to help customers reduce datacenter power consumption as a core property of their application delivery infrastructure. The new PowerSmart feature, which will be available as part of the company’s flagship Citrix Presentation Server™ product line, will enable customers set policies that automatically dial server power down based on application traffic levels, allowing companies to more effectively manage power during non-peak hours.

HP is the first server vendor to demonstrate support for the new PowerSmart feature in conjunction with its power management tools for the HP ProLiant portfolio of servers. By combining Citrix’s market-leading application delivery infrastructure with HP’s ability to help customers achieve better datacenter efficiency, customers can support green initiatives by increasing utilization of their existing infrastructure and lowering their consumption of power and cooling resources. As a result, they can go green while saving potentially millions in datacenter costs.

As companies of all sizes become increasingly dependent on applications to run their businesses, the cost and power consumption of datacenters has grown rapidly. In fact, according to Gartner, “most large enterprise IT organizations typically spend in the region of four to eight percent, in some cases 10 percent, of their total IT budgets on energy. But the twin factors of power hungry hardware and rising energy costs could lead to this figure rising by up to four times within five years.”¹ Using Citrix application delivery infrastructure helps IT organizations overcome these challenges by virtualizing servers in the datacenter, consolidating application workloads more efficiently and optimizing application traffic over the network. The addition of new features like PowerSmart improves this even further by enabling more intelligent server provisioning and load management based on specific knowledge of how applications are being used.

“The key to any effective response to green IT challenges is to be able to maintain, and even increase, the capacity of IT infrastructure while reducing its energy consumption. By powering down unused Presentation Servers during off-peak usage, we are helping our customers be more green and at the same time putting money right back into their wallets,” said Scott Herren, vice president and general manager, Application Virtualization Group, Citrix Systems. “We are poised to work with HP to further develop our green computing initiatives and enable customers to enhance their IT operations while reducing power requirements.”

“Working with Citrix, HP is helping customers achieve better business outcomes through reduced energy consumption, power costs, and the overall carbon footprint,” said Scott Farrand, vice president, Industry Standard Server Software, HP. “Our collaboration with Citrix on power management makes our server management tools even better for the user, the business and the environment.”

Availability

PowerSmart is compatible with all current versions and editions of Citrix Presentation Server and iLO-enabled HP servers. It will be available in December to all Citrix Presentation Server customers as a free download at www.citrix.com/cdn.

Citrix PowerSmart at iForum 07 The App Delivery Expo

A panel of industry experts from Citrix, HP, Intel and the Yankee Group will be discussing Green Computing initiatives, including the benefits of the PowerSmart feature in Citrix Presentation Server during two 50-minute sub-keynotes at iForum 07, the App Delivery Expo. The discussions will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. PT. The Citrix App Delivery Expo offers IT executives and technical professionals the opportunity to network with the world's most respected leaders in the application delivery infrastructure space.

About iForum 07 - The App Delivery Expo

Now in its tenth year, the Citrix App Delivery Expo is the industry’s largest conference focused entirely on application delivery infrastructure, bringing together thousands of business leaders, IT managers and technology leaders from around the world. Application delivery infrastructure best practices will be highlighted in more than 60 sessions, including keynotes and general sessions from analysts at Gartner, Forrester, IDC and Yankee Group, as well as industry leaders like Accenture, Dell, Microsoft, HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle and SAP. The conference also features 15 enterprise customer presentations, vendor exhibits, technology labs, hands-on technical workshops, panel discussions, and product demonstrations. The event will present thought leaders and cutting-edge technology behind some of the hottest trends in the market, including virtualization, desktop delivery and application networking. Held at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, NV, from October 22-25, 2007, the Citrix App Delivery Expo will also feature keynotes by Citrix executives including Mark Templeton, president and CEO. More information is available at http://www.citrixiforum.com.

About Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 99% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2006 was $1.1 billion.

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¹ Gartner press release: “Gartner Says Look Beyond Power Issue As Pressure Mounts for 'Greener' IT,” November 7, 2006.