BEDFORD, MA--(Marketwired - Apr 17, 2013) - EnterpriseDB , the leading worldwide provider of enterprise-class PostgreSQL products and Oracle database compatibility solutions, today announced that its Postgres Plus Cloud Database has been verified as Citrix Ready®. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix. Postgres Plus Cloud Database completed a rigorous verification process to ensure compatibility with Citrix CloudPlatform™, powered by Apache CloudStack ™ providing confidence in joint solution compatibility.
The Citrix Ready program makes it easy for customers to identify complementary products and solutions that can enhance Citrix environments. Customers can be confident that Postgres Plus Cloud Database has successfully passed a series of tests established by Citrix, and can be trusted to work effectively with Citrix CloudPlatform to deploy new instances of Postgres designed to take advantage of the scalability and elasticity of cloud environments. Demos and information about Postgres Plus Cloud Database can easily be found in the Citrix Ready XChange Marketplace, an online catalogue of over 20,000 partner offerings verified to work with Citrix products. [ View the video , EnterpriseDB: Database Built for the Cloud, which covers how Postgres Plus Cloud Database delivers a robust, cost-efficient, database environment for Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack.]
As a Citrix Ready solution provider for Citrix CloudPlatform, Postgres Postgres Plus Cloud Database provides Citrix customers access to a full-featured, enterprise-class Postgres database in the cloud that dramatically simplifies the setup, configuration and management of Postgres deployments. Easy-to-use interfaces enable developers, not just the database administrators, to start up new database clusters and configure them for load balancing and high-availability. Further, Postgres Plus Cloud Database is fully optimized to take advantage of the elasticity and scalability enabled by a cloud environment and automatically adds or releases compute power and physical storage as needs change.
"As a member of the Citrix Ready program, we are able to offer customers intelligent solutions that combine our Postgres Plus Cloud Database with Citrix CloudPlatform," said Sean Doherty, Vice President of Business Development at EnterpriseDB. "The offering clearly demonstrates our plans to work closely with trusted partners, through the Citrix Ready partner ecosystem, in order to provide the highest quality experience for our customers."
About EnterpriseDB EnterpriseDB, based in Bedford, MA, is the leading worldwide provider of enterprise-class PostgreSQL and Oracle database compatibility products and services. Used by thousands of business and government customers globally, EnterpriseDB delivers the industry's best price-performance in a relational database. Employing some of the most innovative members of the PostgreSQL Community, EnterpriseDB builds upon 25-plus years of development to provide companies a proven, secure and feature-rich alternative to costly traditional databases. EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus family of products includes the open source community PostgreSQL , Postgres Plus Advanced Server with Oracle database compatibility, a cloud database with its Postgres Plus Cloud Database and enterprise management and monitoring tools. Founded in 2004, EnterpriseDB is backed by Charles River Ventures, Volition Capital (formerly Fidelity Ventures), Valhalla Partners and strategic investors including Red Hat, IBM, NTT and KT. For more information, please visit http://enterprisedb.com .
About Citrix Ready The Citrix Ready program identifies verified solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, including XenDesktop®, XenApp®, XenServer®, NetScaler®. 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 partners who have demonstrated more than 22,000 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. More information about the Citrix Ready program can be found at www.citrix.com/ready . Reach Citrix ready using social media via the Citrix Ready blog site and Twitter.
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