Citrix Names Liquidware Labs 2011 Citrix Ready Solution of the Year

ATLANTA and SAN FRANCISCO, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Booth #628 -- Citrix Synergy™ -- Liquidware Labs, the leader in desktop transformation, today announced that it has received the Citrix Ready™ Solution of the Year award, which recognizes a company that excels in providing third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix.  Citrix Systems honored Liquidware Labs with the award during Citrix Synergy San Francisco 2011, the conference where virtual computing takes center stage.

"Liquidware Labs exemplifies how partnering with Citrix enables both of our companies to deliver virtual computing solutions for customers worldwide," said Joe Keller, Vice President, Alliance and Community Marketing, Citrix.  "Liquidware Labs solutions assist partners and customers with key phases of desktop transformations to Citrix XenDesktop with their Stratusphere solution for in-depth infrastructure assessments and ProfileUnity with its migration and user virtualization management features."

Liquidware Labs was chosen for this award based on five selection criteria: impact on Citrix business, commitment to its relationship with Citrix, customer satisfaction, channel and field commitment, and marketing commitment. Citrix Ready showcases select trusted solutions designed to meet various customer needs. Through the online catalog and Citrix Ready branding program, customers can easily find and build a trusted infrastructure. Citrix Ready not only demonstrates current mutual product compatibility, but through our continued industry relationships also ensures future interoperability.

The announcement of being chosen at Citrix Ready Solution of the Year comes on the heels of an innovative offering that Liquidware Labs announced this week for their desktop transformation solutions. In addition to perpetual licenses of Stratusphere and ProfileUnity, the company now offers the solutions as a low-cost, pay-as-you-go subscription plan for virtual desktop engagements with their Liquidware Labs DTA (Desktop Transformation Accelerator) Subscription. Stratusphere and ProfileUnity include the ability to assess, migrate, virtualize the user environment, and validate user experience when transitioning to virtual desktop environments such as Citrix XenDesktop®.  Liquidware Labs DTA is available on 180-day and one-year terms with support included.

"This has already been a very exciting week for Liquidware Labs and Citrix Synergy is just getting started. We are honored to be chosen Citrix Ready Solution of the Year and to be showcased within the Citrix alliance and channel ecosystems," said Tyler Rohrer, founder of Liquidware Labs. "This partnership works so well because our desktop transformation solutions help customers assess, migrate, and provide ongoing user experience validation of desktops transformed to Citrix XenDesktop and CitrixXenApp -- before, during, and after the roll-out of any size project."

About the Citrix Ready Program

The Citrix Ready program identifies verified solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, including Citrix® XenDesktop®, XenApp™, XenServer®, NetScaler® and GoToMeeting®. The Citrix Ready designation is awarded to third party products that have successfully met verification criteria set by Citrix, and gives customers an added confidence in the compatibility of the joint solution offering. The Citrix Ready program leverages industry-leading alliances across the Citrix partner eco-system to meet a wide variety customer needs, and currently incorporates over 2,800 partners who have demonstrated more than 18,000 product verifications. It also includes the Citrix Ready Community Verified program which allows customers to see thousands of products that have been verified by other customers to work in their production environments. The Citrix Ready program received the Alliance Excellence Award from the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) for creating a strong community through implementation of new, innovative best practices. More information about the Citrix Ready program can be found at www.citrix.com/citrixready. Reach Citrix ready using social media via the Citrix Ready blog site and Twitter.

About Liquidware Labs

Liquidware Labs™ is the leader in desktop transformation solutions for next generation physical and virtual desktops, including VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and Microsoft Windows 7. The company's Stratusphere™ and ProfileUnity™ solutions have been described by analysts as the industry's first 'On-Ramp to VDI', providing a complete methodology and software that enables organizations to decouple users and applications from the operating system and to cost-effectively plan, migrate, manage and validate the user experience for next generation desktop infrastructure.  LWL products are VMware and Citrix certified, and are available through a global network of certified partners. Visit www.liquidwarelabs.com for further information.

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