Citrix today announced the availability of NetScaler®, the industry’s
most advanced cloud networking functionality, as a remote services blade
for the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch. This unique integration of
NetScaler into the Nexus 7000 has been jointly developed between the two
companies using the Cisco Remote Integrated Service Engine (RISE)
technology. Once installed, NetScaler integrates an external appliance
as if it were an embedded service module attached directly to the switch
backplane in order to leverage the intelligence of the switch itself.
This enables automated control, simplified deployment and an overall
lower cost of operations while still delivering the standalone
performance, availability and reliability of a best-in-class application
delivery controller (ADC).
As businesses move towards cloud-based service models, datacenters
require integrated application network services to provide robust
application delivery capabilities that accelerate application
performance without the burden of increased complexity. Successfully
managing application workloads in a simple, flexible and scalable
manner, while lowering datacenter costs is critical in the new era of
cloud and mobile services. The uniquev integration of NetScaler VPX™,
MPX™, SDX™ and 1000V™ (distributed by Cisco) - each of which can act as
a remote services blade of Nexus 7000 - will enable organizations to
take advantage of the full power of NetScaler, but with the additional
advantage that it will also be tightly coupled with any Cisco Nexus 7000
Series switch backplane. Powered by RISE technology, the Cisco Nexus
7000 Series and Citrix NetScaler product line will integrate together to
optimize the management of policy-based routing for application delivery.
Cisco and Citrix believe the IT industry is on the verge of the next
major architectural transition: the mobile-cloud era. To help enterprise
and service provider customers capture the market transition and
transform their business models Cisco
and Citrix have expanded their collaboration from desktop
virtualization into three strategic areas: cloud networking, cloud
orchestration, and mobile workstyles.
Capabilities
Key capabilities of Citrix NetScaler integration with Cisco Nexus 7000
Series Switch with RISE technology include:
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Plug and Play Set up - RISE technology significantly reduces
the number of steps required to integrate NetScaler with the Cisco
Nexus 7000 Series Switch. The process is reduced from 45 steps with a
generic ADC without RISE, to only nine steps when using NetScaler with
RISE. As well as reducing set up time, RISE keeps the network
configurations in sync so that ongoing maintenance and upgrades are
greatly simplified, and risk from configuration errors is greatly
reduced.
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Reduced Downtime - Real-time route updates between NetScaler
and the Nexus 7000 Series Switch ensure fast recovery from service
failures by up to 40 times. By enabling NetScaler to deliver route
health updates to the Nexus 7000 Series Switch via RISE, customers can
more easily deploy shared services within and across datacenters at a
significantly reduced cost of operation and with greater availability
than ever before.
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Ease of Monitoring - RISE integration brings greater visibility
across the datacenter by eliminating the need to hide source IP
addresses through full proxy ADC services. This ensures that NetScaler
has more visibility into monitoring infrastructures across the
datacenter and ensures tighter control of the environment.
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Integrated multi-tenancy support - RISE integration spans the
multi-tenancy features of NetScaler and Nexus 7000 Series switches.
Building on the advanced multi-tenancy capabilities of NetScaler SDX,
this provides comprehensive flexibility in supporting private and
public cloud scenarios, including the ability to set up Cisco Nexus
VDCs and NetScaler instances in one-to-many, many-to-one, and a
countless variety of many-to-many configurations.
Availability
Citrix NetScaler as a remote services blade for the Cisco Nexus 7000
Series Switch is available in April 2014.
Quotes
Christine Holloway, Vice President, Converged Infrastructure
Solutions, CDW
“The move to cloud-based service models is driving customers to
transform traditional datacenters into automated datacenters. We are
helping our customers simplify their technology needs in order to make
this switch. We’re pleased to see Cisco and Citrix working together to
introduce products that move in this direction, and are eager to
demonstrate these cost-saving technologies across our entire customer
base.”
Brad Casemore, Research Director, Datacenter Networks, IDC
“Virtual network services are critical to enterprises adopting private
and public cloud because those customers require an application-delivery
infrastructure that is dynamic and responsive. It's essential for them
to be able to manage multiple applications while maintaining flexibility
and scalability. Citrix NetScaler, offered as a virtual-services blade
for the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch, simplifies deployment and lowers
cost of operation.“
Ram Appalaraju, Vice President, Products, DataCenter Group, Cisco
“As the data center undergoes a fundamental transformation, driven by
cloud, mobility and virtualization, Citrix and Cisco share a common
vision of a flexible, scalable, secure network. Today’s release of
NetScaler as a seamless of extension of Cisco Nexus 7000 through RISE
further demonstrates our commitment to collaborate by unifying
best-in-class technologies from each of the companies to accelerate the
transformation to new network service delivery models in the
mobile-cloud era.”
Sunil Potti, Vice President and General Manager, NetScaler Product
Group, Citrix
"As networks transform into cloud architectures for secure and scalable
mobile services delivery, intelligent automation becomes a core
underpinning to ease deployment, enhance operational control and enable
true network elasticity. Leveraging Cisco RISE technology in the Nexus
7000 series, best-in-class application delivery capabilities powered by
Citrix NetScaler become an industry-first offering to be tightly coupled
with the Nexus fabric - empowering public and private clouds to
dramatically simplify networks and gain unparalleled agility.”
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