Citrix reported positive numbers on their recent Q3 financial call and they unveiled some interesting information about their application, desktop, and server virtualization products. The share price for Citrix Systems rose Thursday after the company posted better-than-expected revenue numbers for its third quarter.On Wednesday, the company reported revenue for the third quarter of $399 million, up from $350 million in the same quarter a year earlier. The company is forecasting that net revenue for the quarter ending December 31 will be somewhere in the range of $425 to $440 million. For the full fiscal year, Citrix said it expects revenue to be between $1.59 and $1.61 billion.“I’m pleased with our third-quarter results,” said Mark Templeton, president and CEO of Citrix. “In the quarter, we took decisive actions to hold operating expenses flat, introduce new cost efficiency programs, and direct our customer conversations toward the tangible cost savings we provide. These factors helped us deliver double-digit revenue growth in a tough macro-economic environment.” During the Q3 financial call, Citrix discussed some interesting data points around its virtualization products.David Henshall, senior vice president and CFO of Citrix, said the company’s application virtualization business was strong, increasing 12 percent year-on-year to $273 million with new licenses up over 10 percent. And one of the major drivers was the XenApp Platinum addition that contributed over 30 percent of the mix, generating five deals greater than $1 million.When looking at XenServer and XenDesktop, Q3 revenue was up 100 percent sequentially reaching $7 million. And with that, the company believes they are on pace to achieve their target of $25 million for the year. Citrix exited the quarter with more than 3,300 partners authorized to sell XenServer, where the number of repeat resellers nearly quadrupled during the quarter.Templeton told those on the phone that partners and customers are rapidly embracing the company’s new products and exceeding expectations in Q3. He said that Citrix has added more than 200 new customers during the quarter and closed several deals valued over $100,000. As an example, the company closed deals with Tesco, the largest retailer in the United Kingdom, and SAP.Templeton also said that the XenDesktop Platinum Edition (a complete VDI stack that includes XenApp for virtual desktops) contributed to almost 50 percent of their mix. They’ve had over 6,000 downloads of their free evaluation additions of XenDesktop, and more than 1,200 partners have already been trained and certified to sell this solution. In September, Citrix released XenServer 5, an important upgrade for the company with more than 100 new features such as improved ease of use, management, high availability, and disaster recovery — building on XenServers’ enterprise-ready features like live migration, resource pooling, and workload provisioning.Citrix shares ended the week at $21.63. The 52-week high was $43.90 on Nov. 7 and the 52-week low was $19 on Oct. 10. Software Development