For the third year in a row, ADC survey respondents chose Citrix as the leader in all six categories: Market, Performance, Reliability, Innovation, Price, and Service & Support.

To understand what is behind the IT professionals’ perceptions, we focused on where Citrix numbers improved, as well as where Citrix scored highest. Citrix received the highest percentage of votes this year for Performance Leader, indicating that the ability to deliver superior application performance defines the Market Leader in this technology arena. Considering the Citrix sweep of every category, the survey results also indicated the breadth of Citrix capabilities stands out in an ultra-competitive field of contenders.

In each part, respondents were provided with a product category description, list of vendor choices (plus an “other” answer choice to add a vendor, if applicable), and were asked six questions:

1. Who do you perceive as the Application Delivery Controller market leader?
2. Who do you perceive as the Application Delivery Controller price leader?
3. Who do you perceive as the Application Delivery Controller performance leader?
4. Who do you perceive as the Application Delivery Controller reliability leader?
5. Who do you perceive as the Application Delivery Controller service & support leader?
6. Who do you perceive as the Application Delivery Controller innovation leader?

 It was a clean sweep in all 6 categories. 

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