Citrix Reached A High of US$2.21 Billion for Fiscal Year 2011

Citrix’s expertise in collaboration, desktop virtualization and cloud networking paid off in 2011 with Citrix achieving a revenue of US$2.21 billion, compared to US$1.87 billion in the previous year. The 18 percent increase in revenue helped Citrix pull off yet another record-breaking year.

Asia Pacific played a leading role in the global revenue growth, coming out tops for the fiscal year 2011. The region reported the highest increase in revenue of 33 percent, ahead of the Americas (19 percent) and EMEA (11 percent) regions. This solid performance was aided by yet another strong fourth quarter performance that saw quarterly revenue increase by 37 percent.

In particular, Citrix continues to drive leadership across desktop virtualization, growing the Desktop Solutions business by 14 percent last year to reach US$369 million in terms of product revenue, with Citrix XenDesktop contributing more than 50 percent of total product revenue.

2011 saw Citrix introducing greater diversity in its products and channels. Combined with the compelling vision to empower users to work from anywhere, on any device, Citrix will continue to leverage on its position as a leader in the areas of virtualization, workplace mobility and cloud services to help enterprises embrace the consumerization of IT, amidst the transition to the cloud.

Key highlights in Q4 2011 include :

• A strategic alliance with Cisco to develop and deliver solutions that help customers simplify and accelerate large-scale desktop virtualization deployments, including high-definition virtual desktops and applications, and improved end user experiences, over a highly secure Citrix® HDX™-enabled Cisco network.
• The acquisition of App-DNA™, a leader in application migration and management, and long-time Citrix partner, to help customers speed deployments of desktop virtualization enterprise-wide.
• A broad new set of products, solutions and programs, including Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5, designed to help small and medium businesses (SMBs) move from the PC Era to the Cloud Era by capitalizing on the benefits of desktop virtualization.
• New additions to Citrix NetScaler® MPX™ and SDX product lines that deliver high performance and virtualization to tackle large-scale network consolidation initiatives with the flexibility to scale without additional hardware – requirements for building private and public clouds.
• Citrix NetScaler CloudConnectors™, which create an end-to-end service delivery fabric to enable enterprises, and Internet application and content providers to knit on- and off-premise datacenter capabilities into a seamless system, with increased optimizations.
• The next stage of the Citrix strategy for Citrix CloudGateway™, the industry’s first unified service broker that aggregates, controls and delivers Windows, Web, SaaS and mobile applications to any user on any device, accelerating enterprise adoption of cloud and mobility.
• The Citrix CloudPortal™, a new product line designed to help providers transform general purpose cloud infrastructure into profitable cloud businesses, as well as the next release of its flagship Citrix CloudStack™ platform, acquired in 2011 through the acquisition of Cloud.com.
• Citrix completed the acquisition of ShareFile™, a market-leading provider of secure, cloud-based data storage, sharing and collaboration, with products that make it easy for businesses of all sizes to securely store, sync and share business documents and files across multiple devices, and access them from any location.
• The opening of its recently acquired ShareFile data cloud to create a ‘Follow-Me-Data Fabric’ for sharing business data across a wide range of applications, devices and services. This makes it easy for third-party developers and vendors to incorporate common data services, such as search, share, sync, secure and remote wipe into their solutions through a set of open APIs.