TROY – SunTel Services announced Wednesday that it has achieved Gold Partner status with Citrix ? a virtual workplace software and services company.

Gold Partner status with Citrix is achieved based on a combination of completing additional sales and technical certifications, achieving successful customer deployments and having a close working relationship with the local Citrix team.

The additional sales and technical certifications which were completed expanded SunTel?s Citrix focus beyond the NetScaler Application Delivery Controller and into the Citrix XEN desktop, application, and server virtualization portfolio. This expanded focus provides SunTel the capabilities to deliver Citrix enterprise mobility and cloud solutions, encompassing the entire Citrix portfolio and any subset thereof, to the SunTel client community.

?We?re proud of SunTel?s Gold Partner certification with Citrix, as it highlights our dedication to providing our customers with seamless solutions for the best virtual computing technologies available,? said Ray Szpiech, VP Enterprise Networking & Security SunTel. ?Being a Gold Partner highlights the expertise and commitment SunTel?s staff has in mastering the best solutions on the market and building strong partner relationships.?

Serving as a technology partner to more than 1,000 businesses, SunTel works to provide total business communications solutions by taking a full life-cycle approach. SunTel installs, manages, monitors and maintains services for SMB and enterprise networks throughout the country.