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Centralis awarded Microsoft Gold partner status Published: 30/04/2007 Centralis has been awarded Gold Certified partner status by Microsoft, following extensive customer feedback, case study analysis and staff certification. The Microsoft certification adds another layer of top tier partnerships to those with Citrix, VMware and WYSE. As part of the certification, Microsoft conducted a customer satisfaction survey which placed Centralis in the top 15% of partcipating UK Microsoft partners. Key findings of the survey were: • Overall customer satisfaction rating of 100%    1. 95.24% rated themselves "Very satisfied"    2. 56% survey response rate (against an average of 15%)    3. Overall "NSat" customer satisfaction rating of 195 out of 200 Customers rated Centralis most highly on: • Quality of consultancy services • Quality of communications with customer • Ease of doing business "As a Microsoft Gold partner, Centralis can offer its customers the reassurance of a truly professional organisation with the backing of Microsoft's resources" Karl Noakes, Director of the Partner Development Group at Microsoft Our favourite quote: "Dealing with Centralis showed us what a terrible service we had been receiving from other suppliers. Their engineers are superbly experienced and knowledgeable, and their solutions superbly crafted, and their customer service is second to none." For further details please see our Microsoft certification page. http://www.centralis.co.uk/about/certification/microsoft.asp

Centralis adds Ardence to streaming & virtualisation portfolio Published: 23/04/2007 Following the acquisition of Ardence by Citrix earlier this year, Centralis has become an authorised Ardence solution provider. Ardence enables IT to become more agile by delivering operating systems and applications on-demand from the network to desktops, servers and devices. The Ardence Software-Streaming Platform virtualizes any x86-based computer by streaming the operating system and applications on-demand from network storage. Ardence's ability to virtualize desktops, servers or devices on-demand enables unprecedented IT agility; increases security and reliability, and provides powerful options for the way businesses think about their processes and their market strategies. For further details please see our Ardence certification page. http://www.centralis.co.uk/about/certification/ardence.asp

Thinstall appoint Centralis as first EMEA Platinum Partner Published: 23/04/2007 Centralis has become the first partner in EMEA to be awarded Platinum level partnership with Thinstall - the application streaming specialists. Thinstall allows organisations to virtualise application installations - creating installations that can be run as a single .exe from USB sticks, fileshares or desktops with no additional infrastructure needed. As part of the certification, Centralis had to demonstrate their application virtualisation skills by packaging applications and submitting them to independent quality assurance. Thinstall is an Application Virtualization Platform that enables complex software to be delivered as self-contained EXE files which can run instantly with zero installation from any data source. The core of Thinstall VS is the Virtual Operating System, a small light-weight component which is embedded with each “Thinstalled” application. Application virtualisation dramatically simplifies the installation and maintenance of applications whilst reducing support costs and improving the user experience. It also has a major part to play in simplifying application and operating system migrations. For further details please see our Thinstall certification page. http://www.centralis.co.uk/about/certification/thinstall.asp

Centralis announces 30 days of free farm management software Published: 07/03/2007 UK-based Citrix specialist Centralis is celebrating 10 years as a software vendor and value-added-reseller by offering Citrix customers a fully functioning copy of its Harvester farm management software for up to 200 servers – free on evaluation for 30 days. Centralis is a member of the Citrix Global Alliance Partnership, using 10 years experience of providing its UK customers with managed services to develop a unique set of automation and reporting tools without the need for scripting, launched as Harvester 1.0 in 2002. The current version, Centralis Harvester 4.2, is compatible with Citrix Presentation Server 3.0 and 4.0. The free trial will extend until the release of Harvester 4.5, due Q2 2007 following the release of Citrix Presentation Server 4.5. The software, which requires no installation or agents on the Citrix servers themselves, is simple to run and includes a comprehensive toolset of reporting and administration features, making farm-wide analysis, audit and change management simple to achieve. Ewen Anderson, Centralis Managing Director, said: “Customers have used Harvester to diagnose, report on and manage some of the largest Citrix farms in the world. It allows farm managers to thoroughly analyse the Citrix environment, plan and make the change, then check everything worked as planned. Managers can check all the critical settings every day if needed – providing a quality of service to their organisations that just wouldn’t be possible without Harvester.” The free trial is open to any end-user organisation and can simply be downloaded from the Centralis website (see link below). Full commercial licenses are available from Centralis or authorised resellers. Consulting, reseller and service-based agreements are also available to Citrix partners by separate agreement with Centralis. http://www.centralis.co.uk/downloads/ http://www.centralis.co.uk/harvester/