Citrix today announced that the Citrix NetScaler® platform, the
industry’s most advanced cloud networking functionality, is Vblock™
Ready certified, delivering key functionality to VCE™ Vblock™ Systems.
Citrix, also now a member of the VCE Technology Alliance Partner (TAP)
program, is working with VCE to give customers the ability to seamlessly
incorporate the NetScaler platform into VCE Vblock System deployments.
In doing so, NetScaler is enabling cloud environments to scale up, in
and out via groundbreaking
Citrix TriScale™ technology, bringing the same innovation that
powers many of the world’s largest clouds to the Vblock System
architecture. This partnership builds on the
strategic integrations of the NetScaler product released last month
with the Cisco datacenter portfolio.
In today’s era of mobility and cloud, a flexible, application-centric
networking architecture is a critical element of the software-defined
datacenter. It provides the networking agility and programmability
necessary to simplify datacenter IT operations while enabling
application awareness. The Citrix NetScaler platform can now deliver
these capabilities on top of the value of Vblock systems, which are
pre-integrated, pre-tested and pre-validated converged infrastructure
solutions optimized for various popular workloads such as virtual
desktops, enterprise mobility and private and public cloud environments.
Powered by unique Citrix TriScale technology, the NetScaler
SDX™ service delivery platform, can now be seamlessly leveraged to
deliver multi-tenant, best-in-class L4-7 services offering 80:1 ADC
consolidation on a single Vblock System.
Additionally, the NetScaler platform also brings unique integrations
with popular virtual desktop and enterprise mobility offerings such as
Citrix XenApp®, Citrix XenDesktop® and Citrix XenMobile® products via
innovative capabilities such as HDX
Insight™ to VCE customers, delivering
deep visibility and control into critical business operations. NetScaler
ADC technology running seamlessly with Vblock Systems can enable VCE
customers to boost business productivity by accelerating application
performance for all users, while lowering datacenter costs by enabling
multi-tenant consolidation.
Through its partnerships with Cisco and VCE, Citrix brings additional
value to VCE customers in two distinct areas. The NetScaler
functionality found in the Citrix NetScaler 1000V platform announced
earlier this year and available from Cisco, tightly couples the
capabilities of Citrix NetScaler with Cisco’s virtual networking
framework to provide superior network service provisioning and
performance. The Citrix NetScaler product group also recently announced
support of the Cisco
Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), which gives joint
customers unprecedented control of their networks in a unique
application-centric perspective. Leveraging Citrix
TriScale technology, Citrix NetScaler and Cisco ACI technologies
enable cloud administrators to more uniformly deliver application
centric services at Layers 2-7 network while maintaining the benefits of
an elastic and automated cloud network architecture.
Quotes
Rohit Mehra, Vice President, Network Infrastructure, IDC
"Enterprises adopting private and public cloud require an
application-delivery infrastructure that is dynamic, responsive, and
inherently service oriented. With the integration of Citrix NetScaler
into VCE's Vblock, customers get a pre-integrated ADC solution that
seamlessly delivers cloud-centric elasticity and scalability while
dramatically simplifying the deployment process."
D.J. Long, Senior Director, Technology Alliances, VCE
"VCE welcomes Citrix as a new Technology Alliance Partner for Vblock
Systems and is pleased to see NetScaler certified as Vblock Ready for
cloud customers. We look forward to Citrix certifying additional
products and technology for Vblock Systems as a TAP partner that can
deliver advanced solutions to customers.”
Sunil Potti, vice president and general manager, NetScaler Product
Group, Citrix
“Citrix has always believed in a top-down application-driven approach to
network services. Our collaboration with VCE enables us to seamlessly
integrate Citrix NetScaler services into datacenters built using VCE
Vblock Systems while also building on our strategic relationship and
unique integrations with Cisco datacenter solutions. As a result, we can
offer customers unified application control while preserving the
elasticity and automation of a true cloud network architecture.”
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