Citrix and CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced an agreement to
enable integration of the Citrix NetScaler® SDX™ service delivery
networking platform with CA SiteMinder®, a leading access management
solution. This planned integration will consolidate the capabilities of
CA SiteMinder® Secure Proxy Server (SPS) onto the NetScaler appliance,
creating a unique solution for customers that will solve the problem of
device, application and information diversity; while simplifying user
authentication and providing secure, high performance access.
Consumers today have become more mobile and the use of heterogeneous
devices for information access has added significant complexity to how
users securely access corporate data and applications. While critical
network entry points need to support a range of traditionally separate
functions, it has become more important for identity and access
management solutions to seamlessly blend into the network infrastructure
with simplified deployment. A unified access infrastructure that works
across applications and network layers is now needed. The planned
integration of NetScaler SDX and CA SiteMinder will bring together the
ability to host multiple networking instances on a single hardware
appliance with the enterprise-class secure single sign-on (SSO) and
flexible identity access management needed to authenticate users and
control access to applications. The combined solution will lower total
cost of ownership for the respective technologies, while
delivering secure and simplified policy administration.
With the solution from Citrix and CA Technologies that will be available
later this year, enterprise IT will be able to consolidate hosting of
the federated identity and SSO functions, VPN, application acceleration,
application firewalling and load balancing into the NetScaler SDX
platform without having to deploy discrete physical and virtual devices.
As businesses embrace flexible, multifunction network policy engines to
improve performance and operational efficiency, this integration of
best-in-class policy delivery, identity and access management keeps
information delivery flexible and economical. And as businesses
increasingly embrace cloud architectures, delivering the above policy
control in a hardened, multi-tenant SDX platform will enable enterprises
to have fine-grained control of virtualized apps, desktops and mobile
services - allowing IT to cater to individual business unit needs
without compromising on compliance.
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Bob Laliberte, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc.
“Enterprises are looking for innovative technology platforms to help
transform their data center in order to be more responsive to the
business. Citrix and CA are partnering to respond by consolidating
multiple functions on to the NetScaler SDX platform with integrations
with CA SiteMinder, delivering greater value within the same physical
footprint.”
Sunil Potti, Vice President and General Manager, NetScaler Product
Group, Citrix
“The increase in mobile workers and BYOD deployments has added
significant complexity to secure user access to critical corporate
information. Integrating Citrix NetScaler and CA SiteMinder on NetScaler
SDX lowers the total cost of ownership for the combined technologies and
assures fast, robust and secure policy administration. We are extremely
pleased to be partnering with CA Technologies to deliver these
capabilities to our customers.”
Mike Denning, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Security
Business, CA Technologies
“We expect the integration of CA SiteMinder and Citrix NetScaler SDX
will help improve our customers’ cost structures and IT staff efficiency
as well as enhance overall system performance for application access.
This is one more example of the business benefit and value our mutual
customers receive from the partnership between Citrix and CA
Technologies.”
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About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help
customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile
business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and
SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and
secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud. Learn
more about CA Technologies at www.ca.com.
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