Citrix Systems, Inc. announced the appointment of a new director, Robert (Bob) D. Daleo, who served as vice chairman of Thomson Reuters Corporation in 2012 and as executive vice president and chief financial officer from November 1998 to January 2011, to its board of directors, effective immediately. Daleo is also a member of the board of directors for Equifax, is chairman of the Fordham University Board of Trustees, and is Chairman of the New Jersey Community Development Corporation.

Citrix announced the expansion of its CloudBridge(TM) product to incorporate wide-area networking (WAN) optimization capabilities from the industry-leading Citrix Branch Repeater(R) product. This new product line will address the transforming needs of enterprises as they evolve their applications from small datacenters to global locations and the cloud, while delivering the best user experience for virtualized desktops and mobile users. By merging Branch Repeater, which accelerates a wide array of PC applications and delivers the high performance for virtualized desktops, into its CloudBridge accelerated cloud connectivity solution, Citrix will enable enterprises to deliver applications from any cloud while allowing a smooth transition from legacy PC applications. The same solution also allows enterprise datacenters to establish secure and optimized bridges to public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft(R) Windows Azure(TM) as well as to their own datacenters and branches, broadening the choice of locations for application execution and delivery.

Citrix Systems, Inc. announced the availability of Podio Chat, including instant messaging (available now), as well as video and audio chat, planned for release this summer. Designed for the increasingly mobile and dispersed, modern team, Podio Chat enables ad hoc conversations with the right people to flourish, whenever discussion needs to happen -- so teams can respond quicker and make decisions even faster. With the addition of one-to-one and group instant messaging (IM), as well as one-to-one video and audio chat, Podio now makes it even easier for teams to instantly connect and get the context they need on projects, tasks, business processes and everyday workflow outside of an organized meeting setting. Watch the video tutorial of Podio Chat to see how it works. Unlike standard IM tools, Podio Chat gives teams the ability to see which contacts are online, across the entire company ecosystem, whether it be internal employees or external contractors, suppliers or partners working with a team in a Podio workspace. Teams can now ask questions, share updates or discuss a project in real time and, ultimately, work together more effectively on their tasks. Podio also gives teams the option of using video chat for easy, unplanned and ad hoc 1:1, face-to-face discussions, as well as setting up regular, recurring and more planned team video conferencing using GoToMeeting with HDFaces. Key Benefits: Get quick responses and make decisions faster by connecting user whole company and/or team. Podio Chat lets team members see who's online and available to chat -- including displaying time zone information granting immediate access to people in users' core teams as well as coworkers across the wider organization, helping to ease business silos and connecting dispersed teams like never before. Unify communications on Podio by enabling teams to communicate in a variety of different ways to get work done, all without email or third-party communication tools. Users can instant message one-on-one or in a group, use audio-only chat for quick discussions, hold one-to-one ad-hoc video meetings as needed, comment and "like" status messages, tasks and projects. To stop receiving IMs, users can simply close the chat pane and messages will divert to the Podio inbox. Power mobile workstyles and enable dispersed teams to chat from any iOS or Android device, anywhere, anytime, with Podio's mobile apps for Android, iPhone and iPad. Switch between computers and mobile devices with ease, continue chat sessions on the go and never miss the chance to connect with a teammate. Retain information, discussion history and ideas while easing the pain of having "too many tools" for collaboration. Use Podio Chat instead of email and third-party chat services, save conversations, files and decisions in one place and make use of message search to surface information user needs, whenever user needs it. Share files seamlessly and instantly as needed from all Podio-connected file-sharing services, including: Sharefile, Google Drive, Sugarsync, Dropbox, Box, Microsoft SkyDrive, UbuntoOne and YouSendIt. The Podio social business platform brings collaboration and business processes together through Podio workspaces and Podio apps more powerful, collaborative and social alternative to spreadsheets, email and software point solutions. Podio apps can be found in the Podio App Market and customized by any team using the simple drag-and-drop Podio App Builder, a unique tool that enables anyone to create custom business apps for their work, whether it's managing sales, CRM or IT; interfacing with clients or partners; planning a conference; coordinating email marketing; or receiving customer feedback. No technical skills or IT support is needed to create a Podio app -- anyone can set one up in minutes.