Three Finalists Selected For Citrix 2009 Innovation Award

Emory Healthcare, HDFC Bank and Tesco Save Money and Increase Business
Efficiency with Citrix Virtualization Solutions
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(Business Wire)--
The finalists for the 2009 Citrix Innovation Award were announced today by
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS): Emory Healthcare, HDFC Bank and Tesco. These
finalists were chosen for their innovative use of Citrix virtualization and
networking solutions to simplify their IT businesses. The three finalists will
be recognized at the upcoming Citrix Synergy 2009 conference, to be held at the
MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas from May 4 to May 7, for the powerful way they used
Citrix technology to simplify IT, transform their businesses and better serve
users.

2009 Innovation Award Finalist: Emory Healthcare

Emory Healthcare leveraged tightly-integrated Citrix solutions to build an
extremely agile IT environment that delivers a comprehensive electronic patient
medical record to doctors and nurses, while optimizing IT staff and minimizing
expenses. Implementing the Citrix Delivery Center has enabled Emory Healthcare
to cut server and application administration costs in half, deliver applications
anywhere with great performance, reduce server count by 60 percent, and offer a
personalized desktop to its 10,000 users in medical facilities nationwide. Emory
implemented Citrix XenDesktop for virtualized desktop delivery and streamlined
administration across the organization. The server provisioning capability of
Citrix XenServer allowed the team to quickly stream a consistent workload image
to hundreds of Citrix XenApp servers in minutes, rather than building each new
server individually, which significantly reduced server hardware and power
consumption costs.

2009 Innovation Award Finalist: HDFC Bank

HDFC Bank is India`s second largest private bank with more than 37,000
employees, 1,400 branches throughout India and approximately $3 billion in
revenue. HDFC Bank has set itself apart by using Citrix solutions to cut system
installation time at new branch locations to three working days from 10 working
days, enabling more rapid branch expansion and a 30 percent reduction in IT
expenditures. Using XenApp and Citrix NetScaler, key components of the Citrix
Delivery Center, HDFC Bank is continuing to expand delivery of much needed
commercial banking services to India`s underserved geographical areas that lack
traditional communications infrastructure. Specifically, the company used XenApp
to deliver 45 core banking, treasury and cash management applications to branch
employees. To load balance Web servers for high availability, and to optimize
delivery of its Web applications, including the key Internet banking solution
for customers, HDFC Bank installed NetScaler appliances. NetScaler was chosen
for its ability to provide a high level of security and protection against
Internet threats, a vital feature for customers sharing financial information.

2009 Innovation Award Finalist: Tesco

Tesco is Britain`s leading supermarket chain and the world`s third largest
grocer with nearly 4,000 stores and 440,000 employees worldwide. In an industry
known for razor-thin profit margins, Tesco needed to increase operational
efficiency, and drive growth and expansion, while maintaining competitive
pricing for shoppers already cash-strapped due to current economic conditions.
To achieve this goal, Tesco instituted updates to its mission-critical Real Time
Sales (RTS) systems, virtualizing key business applications with XenServer. With
infrastructure from Citrix in place, Tesco has increased its RTS capacity by 75
percent, handling 1,500 sales-related messages per second, supporting the
business-critical nature of the RTS systems and creating room for growth. After
the success of the initial project to virtualize RTS, Tesco has continued to
leverage XenServer for a major server consolidation project. Citrix is working
closely with Tesco to virtualize 1,500 physical servers on XenServer, including
80 XenApp servers. Tesco is aiming for a conservative 10:1 consolidation ratio
for physical to virtual servers and is hitting 70 percent CPU utilization on its
virtualized servers, a vast improvement over the previous six percent. While
adding physical servers would require an increase in power and cooling,
virtualization has better equipped Tesco to hit its target of reducing carbon
emissions from its UK datacenters by 20 percent. This added benefit allowed
Tesco to begin the virtualization technology upgrade earlier than expected by
leveraging budget set aside for a corporate environmental project.

Emory Healthcare, HDFC Bank and Tesco were chosen for their proven ability to be
thought leaders in their respective industries and for their use of
virtualization and networking technologies as a way to gain competitive
advantage, expand their businesses into new markets utilizing state-of-the-art
IT architectures. These finalists were chosen by a panel of IT industry experts,
including industry analysts, Citrix executives and a previous Innovation Award
winner. The 2009 Innovation Award winner will be announced live at Citrix
Synergy 2009, the conference where virtualization, networking and application
delivery meet. This year`s event combines four events into one:

* Virtualization Congress is sponsored by virtualization.info, the largest and
most popular virtualization news and analysis site in the industry. This event
brings together an all-star cast of customers, vendors and industry experts from
across the virtualization community to share best practices for planning,
designing, implementing and managing virtualization in the real world.
* Network World Live is an exciting new event from Network World Magazine that
focuses on the increasingly important role of networking in the application
delivery arena, from the business case to the core technologies involved.
* At Geek Speak Live! - the ultimate "unconference" - tech experts, industry
analysts and bloggers will take the reins, choosing their own discussion topics
and facilitating all the sessions.
* Citrix iForum will offer an impressive lineup of in-depth sessions on Citrix
products and solutions.

How to Vote

Everyone is invited to vote for their favorite story of business innovation and
IT simplicity, beginning today. The winner will be determined by online votes
cast by visitors to www.citrix.com and registered Synergy attendees, and will be
announced on May 6 at the event. To view video profiles of the finalists and to
cast your vote, go to www.citrixsynergy.com/innovation.

About Citrix Synergy 2009

Born as a user conference more than 10 years ago, Citrix Synergy has been
completely reconceived as the industry`s premier thought leadership event where
virtualization, networking and application delivery meet. Citrix Synergy
combines several events into one registration, including Virtualization
Congress, Network World Live, Geek Speak Live and the Citrix iForum User
Conference. Attendees can benefit by attending a single track, or by combining
sessions from various tracks to custom-build a conference to suit their
individual needs. With insights from a wide range of industry luminaries,
solutions from leading vendors, and shared experiences from customers, attendees
will see a quick return on their investment. Citrix Synergy 2009 will be held at
the MGM Grand in Las Vegas from May 4 to May 7. More information and
registration is available on the Citrix Synergy Website:
http://www.citrixsynergy.com.

About Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the leading provider of virtualization,
networking and software as a service technologies for more than 230,000
organizations worldwide. Its Citrix Delivery Center, Citrix Cloud Center (C3)
and Citrix Online Services product families radically simplify computing for
millions of users, delivering applications as an on-demand service to any user,
in any location on any device. Citrix customers include the world`s largest
Internet companies, 99 percent of Fortune Global 500 enterprises, and hundreds
of thousands of small businesses and prosumers worldwide. Citrix partners with
over 10,000 companies worldwide in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1989,
annual revenue in 2008 was $1.6 billion.

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