Technology Alliances

Company Overview
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader in access infrastructure solutions and the most trusted name in secure access for enterprises and individuals. Nearly 50 million people in more than 120,000 organizations around the world use Citrix every day. Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Citrix has offices in 22 countries, and more than 7,000 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries.

Partner Solution
AppSense is a Citrix Solutions partner. Many of our original development ideas came as a direct result of our experience in building systems for customers using Citrix technology.

Company Overview
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Partner Solution
AppSense products fully support the core Microsoft environments including Microsoft NT4, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and XP.

AppSense is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for the ISV/Software Solutions Competency, having met rigorous requirements that demonstrate increased levels of certification, deep real-world experience, and customer reference projects independently verified by Microsoft.

AppSense software has also been independently tested by VeriTest to ensure that it successfully runs in a Microsoft environment, so that our customers can be assured of high quality and interoperability.

Company Overview
Softricity helps enterprises simplify and accelerate software management with SoftGrid, the industry's first application virtualization platform. The award-winning SoftGrid utility computing solution transforms applications from products that must be installed locally into virtual services that are centrally managed and deployed on-demand to any Windows desktop, laptop and Terminal Services/Citrix MetaFrame Presentation server. Global 2000 companies such as Prudential, AIG, ABM Industries, and Raytheon use SoftGrid to save tremendous time and money, enhance IT service quality, and transform into more dynamic businesses.

Partner Solution
Using the AppSense Management Suite, customers have been able to increase application performance to such a level that they can dramatically reduce the number of physical servers that they need. With Softricity's SoftGrid Application Virtualization Platform customers are able to further optimize server resources by allowing any application to run side-by-side without conflict or regression testing to ensure application compatibility, eliminating the need for server silos and further reducing the number of servers and corresponding management.

Company Overview
VMware, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC), is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems. The world's largest companies use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully leverage their existing computing investments and respond faster to changing business demands. VMware has a partner ecosystem that covers all leading processor, infrastructure and management vendors and includes more than 1,000 global and regional resellers, the top major x86 system OEMs and more than 50 technology partners.

Partner Solution
AppSense and VMware share the common goal of enabling customers to gain the optimum value from their IT resources. AppSense WLM increases the system performance of both server and desktop virtual environments by automatically optimizing system CPU and memory utilization.

Company Overview
HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. For the last four fiscal quarters, HP revenue totalled $74.7 billion.

Partner Solution
AppSense is a member of the Hewlett-Packard Developer & Solution Partner Program (DSPP). This program is designed to help independent software vendors, developers, and system integrators create unique solutions across the broad spectrum of HP's platforms and operating systems.

Company Overview
Expand Networks is a leading provider of Application Traffic Management solutions and WAN acceleration appliances. The company's Accelerators combine many unique features including next-generation WAN compression, application-specific acceleration, Layer 7 QoS and sophisticated monitoring and reporting. Expand has shipped over 20,000 Accelerator devices to more than 1,000 customers including Motorola, Continental Airlines and the United States Department of Defence.

Partner Solution
The focus of AppSense on the server with the focus of Expand on the WAN provide complimentary benefits to businesses. By engaging in joint sales and marketing campaigns we are able to increase the value proposition to our mutual customers and channel partners.

Company Overview
International Business Machines (IBM) is the world's largest information technology company. It offers a variety of services ranging from business transformation consulting to software, hardware, fundamental research, financing and the component technologies used to build larger systems.

IBM has operations in over 160 countries worldwide including the UK, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, China and Canada. The company is headquartered in Armonk, New York and employs about 340,000 people.

Partner Solution
AppSense is an IBM Advanced Business Partner having shown commitment to relationships with both IBM and our joint customers. We are also a member of the IBM eServer BladeCenter Alliance Program which joins IBM architecture with complementary technologies.

AppSense products are fully compatible with both IBM hardware and software and carry the Server Proven certification.

Company Overview
Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers and networking and communications products. These products are used by industry members to create advanced computing and communications systems. Intel's mission is to do a great job for our customers, employees, and stockholders by being the preeminent building block supplier to the worldwide digital economy.

Partner Solution
AppSense has joined the Early Access Program run by Intel Corporation. This will give AppSense the chance to test and optimize its applications on the latest Intel hardware before it hits the market and across all of Intel's product range.