Citrix, Akamai collaborate for web application delivery offerings

Bangalore

May 30, 2008

Citrix Systems and Akamai Technologies announced an agreement that will make
it easier for customers and integration partners to combine each company's web
application delivery offerings into integrated solutions that enhance the
performance, scalability and security of enterprise web applications. The
companies will leverage Citrix's premise-based NetScaler product line and
Akamai's cloud-based Web Application Accelerator service to bring true
end-to-end web application delivery to both Internet and enterprise customers
worldwide.

“This initiative is strategic for both Akamai and Citrix as it marks the
beginning of a close collaboration between two market leaders that will focus on
optimizing total cost of ownership and performance experiences for customers via
a new class of application delivery controller services,” said Mark Templeton,
President and CEO, Citrix Systems. “Optimization of the user experience will
happen in the data center, at the edge of the network and in the Internet cloud,
allowing IT to deliver any application to any user with the best performance,
security and cost savings possible.”

Paul Sagan, President and CEO, Akamai said, “Together, Akamai and Citrix
solutions create one end-to-end solution that allows customers to maximize their
investment quickly while benefiting from faster application performance, greater
infrastructure scalability, higher application availability and deeper
application security.”

As part of the collaboration, the companies intend to establish the
following:

· Citrix-Akamai Partner Assistance Program: Designed to help integrators
establish practices to implement the two solutions together at customer sites.

· Citrix-Akamai Online Community: Designed to help enterprise customers share
best practices, experiences and support questions when using Citrix and Akamai
web application delivery solutions together.