Citrix Systems ( News - Alert), Inc. has announced that it has been positioned in the visionaries quadrant by Gartner, Inc. in the recently released "Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2007" report. The Gartner ( News - Alert) report considered 14 different vendors of WAN optimization solutions.
Today, the biggest challenges faced by an IT manager are security, bandwidth and multi-service convergence.
As the size of the employees in a company grows and as employees become more mobile, managing the increasingly distributed global workforce has become a task for any IT manager.
WANScaler offers a transparent and flexible choice of deployment options across the enterprise, as it is built on the AutoOptimizer Engine. This provides the best combination of performance boosting techniques depending on the application, the data and network conditions.
Wes Wasson, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Citrix Systems, said in a press release, “Accelerating, securing, and optimizing applications to the branch office and remote users via Citrix WANScaler is an essential part of a comprehensive application delivery strategy that covers the entire line-of-site from datacenters to desktops. We feel our position in Gartner's visionaries quadrant further highlights Citrix's commitment to provide the most comprehensive application delivery solutions that deliver any application, to any user, in any location with the best performance, security and cost savings.”
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