27 May 2008

At the recent Citrix Synergy event, Citrix Systems and Microsoft announced the availability of Citrix Branch Repeater, a new line of branch office appliances developed and marketed as part of a strategic alliance between the two companies.

By staging the delivery of applications and Windows services closer to branch office users, Citrix Branch Repeater is designed to help make branch office computing faster and more cost-effective.

Citrix Branch Repeater will be sold as part of the Citrix Delivery Center product family, an end-to-end infrastructure designed to help customers transform static datacentres into dynamic delivery centres. The solution sits between corporate datacentres and branch offices, amplifying and retransmitting applications to branch office users.

Based on Windows Server and available with Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server software, the Citrix Branch Repeater is designed to complement application virtualisation solutions by enhancing application delivery and performance while simultaneously delivering critical Windows Server infrastructure services in the branch.

“We have been customers of both Citrix and Microsoft for many years, and their respective technologies have continuously benefited our growing company,” said Tom Allen, director of IT at Ozinga Brothers, a materials supply company with branch offices throughout the US Midwest. “Citrix Branch Repeater will allow us to further enhance our use of Citrix XenApp and Windows Server to deliver applications to our branches without increasing our IT overhead, while keeping our branch users satisfied.”

“Branch office employees should have the same productive computing experience as employees at headquarters,” said Bala Kasiviswanathan, a director in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft. “Windows Server-based branch office solutions help customers deliver core infrastructure services that are required to keep branch office applications and operations running efficiently. The Citrix Branch Repeater streamlines and consolidates the application delivery infrastructure while delivering on the performance and availability expectations of the most demanding branch office environments.”

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