Today at Cisco Live!™, Citrix announced another chapter in its strategic
relationship with Cisco. Citrix
NetScaler® will soon work in sync with Cisco® Application Centric
Infrastructure (ACI), a holistic architecture with centralized
automation and policy-driven application profiles, giving customers
business agility through unprecedented control of their networks in a
unique application-centric perspective. Leveraging the same Citrix
Triscale™ technology that powers the world’s largest clouds, Citrix
NetScaler and Cisco ACI help cloud administrators to more uniformly
control Layer 4-7 network services while maintaining the benefits of an
elastic and automated cloud network architecture.
In today’s fast paced world of mobility and cloud, an
application-centric approach becomes more critical than ever to
achieving IT agility. Businesses depend on faster application roll outs
and changes. Cisco’s ACI provides an application-driven datacenter,
creating an end-to-end solution that quickly responds to an
application’s changing needs through both the servers and all of the
network infrastructure and services connecting it. A critical element of
this approach is to keep application policies such as load balancing,
security, availability, and performance close to the applications. As a
result of ongoing deep integration of Citrix NetScaler with Cisco ACI,
customers will be able to insert NetScaler into the ACI fabric to
deliver unified Layer 2-7 policy control, service chaining and automated
deployment. Citrix builds on the unique integrations with Cisco Nexus to
scale to the next generation ACI solution, offering compelling
investment protection for current and future architectures. This
integration also supports the Cisco and Citrix announcement
that they are bringing their industry-leading technologies together in a
tested and validated enterprise mobility infrastructure solution.
Highlights
The offering improves the datacenter operations and application
deployment specifically by featuring:
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A central point of network control with NetScaler service policy
coordination and automation: The open API framework of Cisco APIC
automates network and service provisioning on Citrix NetScaler
appliances, providing end-to-end telemetry and visibility of
service-aware applications and tenants.
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A scalable and elastic architecture for physical and virtual
NetScaler appliances: Cisco ACI defines a policy-based service
insertion mechanism for both physical and virtual NetScaler
appliances, providing full life cycle service management based on
workload instantiation and decommission. Cisco ACI treats services as
an integral part of an application and any NetScaler service required
is instantiated on the infrastructure from the APIC in the form of a
service graph. Service graphs, are defined as logical functions and
simplify complicated service topologies, enabling the modeling of rich
service functionalities.
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Investment Protection of existing NetScaler operational models:
Cisco ACI and automation framework are compatible with existing
NetScaler implementations, preserving existing service operational
models and leveraging standard protocols.
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An open ecosystem for service integration: Cisco and Citrix
along with Microsoft, IBM, and SunGard Availability Services are
continuing to jointly drive the Internet Engineering Task Force
standard body to define the Network Service Header protocol, with the
promise of enabling an agile and elastic service delivery, capable of
supporting the movement of service functions and application workloads.
Quotes
Soni Jiandani, senior vice president, Cisco
“ACI offers an agile, scalable and secure multi-tenant networking
infrastructure in the datacenter for application mobility, ubiquity and
visibility while preserving the current investments. The broad partner
ecosystem for ACI extends our open and programmable policy model to all
infrastructure in the data center, offering application rapid deployment
and visibility across the stack. The technology integration between
Cisco ACI and Citrix NetScaler provides a central point of control with
automated service life cycle for L4-L7 services, thus reducing the
complexity of managing multiple control points.”
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 Cisco enables us to seamlessly
integrate NetScaler services into datacenters built using Cisco’s
Application Centric Infrastructure. As a result, we can offer customers
unified application control while preserving the elasticity and
automation of a true cloud network architecture.”
Availability
The Citrix NetScaler and Cisco ACI Integrations are available in Summer
2014. Citrix NetScaler is available from both Cisco and Citrix.
Related Announcements
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May 16, 2014: Expert blog: Making
It Real: Citrix NetScaler and Cisco ACI
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May 6, 2014: Citrix
and Cisco Join Forces to Power Mobile Workspaces
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April 2, 2014: News Announcement - Cisco
and Industry Leaders Will Deliver Open, Multi-Vendor, Standards-Based
Networks for Application Centric Infrastructure with OpFlex Protocol
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January 27, 2014: Expert Blog - Get
Your Hybrid Cloud in 2014 with Citrix and Cisco
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January 7, 2014: News Announcement - Citrix
NetScaler Now a Vblock Ready Solution
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December 17, 2013: Expert Blog - Hybrid
Clouds for Citrix and Cisco
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November 6, 2013: News Announcement - Technology
Leaders Rally Behind Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure
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June 20, 2013: News Announcement - Cisco
Integrates Citrix NetScaler into Cloud Network Services Portfolio
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Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leader in mobile workspaces, providing
virtualization, mobility management, networking and cloud services to
enable new ways to work better. Citrix solutions power business mobility
through secure, personal workspaces that provide people with instant
access to apps, desktops, data and communications on any device, over
any network and cloud. This year Citrix is celebrating 25 years of
innovation, making IT simpler and people more productive. With annual
revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more
than 330,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn
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