Citrix Names Liquidware Labs 2011 Citrix Ready Solution of the Year Finalist

ATLANTA and SAN FRANCISCO, May 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Booth #628 –Citrix Synergy- Liquidware Labs, the leader in desktop transformation, today announced it that it has been named a finalist for 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.

"Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity has successfully completed Citrix Ready verification and provides migration of Windows native user data to Citrix XenDesktop," said Joe Keller, Vice President of Alliance and Community Marketing, Citrix. "Together, our goal is to provide mutual customers with the highest quality user experience available today, and the simplest means for making an informed product purchasing selection."

Liquidware Labs was chosen as a finalist for this award based on five selection criteria: impact on Citrix business, commitment to its relationship with Citrix Systems, 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.

"Our alliance with Citrix is built upon the ability of our desktop transformation solutions to assess, migrate, and to provide ongoing user experience validation of desktops transformed to Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp – before, during, and after the roll-out of any size project.  Under our relationship, Citrix Consulting and Field System Engineers have full access to Liquidware Labs Stratusphere™ for assessing environment readiness and Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity™ for streamlining migration of user personas," said Tyler Rohrer, founder of Liquidware Labs. "We are honored to be chosen as a Citrix Ready Solution of the Year finalist and to be showcased within the Citrix alliance and channel ecosystems."

Winners of the Citrix Ready Solution of the Year award will be announced during Citrix Synergy™, the definitive conference on virtual computing, taking place May 25-27, 2011 in San Francisco, California.

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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