Citrix CloudBridge Simplifies and Accelerates Application Delivery from the Cloud
Today Citrix announced the expansion of its CloudBridge™
product to incorporate wide-area networking (WAN) optimization
capabilities from the industry-leading Citrix Branch Repeater® 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 today and delivers the highest
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® Windows Azure™ as well as to their
own datacenters and branches, broadening the choice of locations for
application execution and delivery.
In the cloud era, businesses no longer want to house data at remote
locations, instead opting to centralize files and applications in
datacenters and the cloud. As a result, IT must transform from installed
applications on PC’s, to cloud-based application services, enabling
enterprises to take advantage of cloud computing while continuing to
serve users with the latest business applications. Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure fully removes the need to optimize legacy applications in
branches while emphasizing the importance of delivering a secure and
outstanding experience for virtual desktop users. Securely connecting
branches to cloud-based services while continuing to serve private
WAN-connected applications delivered from the corporate datacenter
provides the best user experience while maintaining security and
reducing ongoing WAN costs.
Unlike complex and expensive competitive solutions that require IT to
purchase multiple products from different vendors, the new CloudBridge
is an extensible platform that will deliver IT twice the functionality
yet require only half the amount of hardware, and all from the same
vendor. When deployed in conjunction with the Citrix
XenDesktop® product and Citrix
XenApp® product, CloudBridge reduces bandwidth-per-desktop by more
than 50 percent, significantly decreases high-definition video bandwidth
consumption, all while continuing to provide substantial performance
improvements for traditional enterprise applications such as email, file
sharing, and database transactions. The new CloudBridge provides a
solution to optimize legacy PC applications while enabling enterprises
to immediately leverage cloud-based application delivery via
virtualized, PC client and mobile applications.
Quotes
Brad Casemore, IDC Research Director, Datacenter Networks, IDC
“To support a workforce armed with a range of devices, functionalities,
and application demands, IT organizations are rethinking data center
strategies with an emphasis on enabling private and hybrid clouds,
rearchitecting the desktop to accommodate user mobility at the branch,
and improving data center efficiency to support economies of scale.”
Chalan Aras, General Manager, CloudBridge Product Group, Citrix
“The updated CloudBridge demonstrates our commitment to delivering
leading cloud networking solutions in support of the company’s
leadership in the cloud services and mobile lifestyles. With
industry-leading scale, secure connectivity, and enhancements for video
caching, the Citrix CloudBridge will provide enterprises with a platform
to empower their transformation from the PC era to the world of cloud
delivered applications and services.”
Availability
The Citrix CloudBridge products are shipping today with the CloudBridge
2000 and 3000 family for mid-range data centers. The CloudBridge 600 and
700 for branch deployments, and the CloudBridge 4000 and 5000,
delivering 310 Mbps to 2 Gbps of WAN optimization and secure cloud
bridging in the same appliance, are available for shipment in the second
quarter of 2013. Current Citrix Repeater™ product, Citrix Repeater on
NetScaler® SDX™ product and Branch Repeater product customers can enjoy
the full benefits of the CloudBridge family functionality by upgrading
to Release 7.0 software, which is available as a tech preview today. The
CloudBridge virtual appliances continue to remain available on the
Amazon Web Services marketplace. Release 7.0 also introduces
connectivity to Microsoft Azure. The CloudBridge portfolio can be
deployed as standalone physical or virtual appliances. For more
information please visit the Citrix website.
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About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the cloud company that enables mobile workstyles
— empowering people to work and collaborate from anywhere, securely
accessing apps and data on any of the latest devices, as easily as they
would in their own office. Citrix solutions help IT and service
providers build clouds, leveraging virtualization and networking
technologies to deliver high-performance, elastic and cost-effective
cloud services. With market-leading solutions for mobility, desktop
virtualization, cloud networking, cloud platforms, collaboration and
data sharing, Citrix helps organizations of all sizes achieve the speed
and agility necessary to succeed in a mobile and dynamic world. Citrix
products are in use at more than 260,000 organizations and by over 100
million users globally. Annual revenue in 2012 was $2.59 billion. Learn
more at www.citrix.com.
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