Today, at Citrix
Synergy™, Citrix unveiled its vision of the workspace delivery
controller that leverages key networking solutions from Citrix,
including NetScaler – the industry’s leading application delivery
controller that optimizes the user experience for 75 percent of Internet
users daily. The workspace delivery controller is the vision for a
unified system to secure and deliver all applications by scaling and
optimizing enterprise hybrid clouds. Bringing together the functions of
application delivery controllers, remote access and WAN virtualization,
architected on an adaptable software-driven architecture, bridge today’s
networks to the service networks of tomorrow.
Citrix announced significant enhancements to NetScaler with the new
Unified Gateway features, which help customers consolidate security at
the edge and deliver simplified, unified remote access to business
applications deployed in the corporate datacenter or from the cloud on a
variety of user devices. As the industry moves towards the
software-defined network (SDN), Citrix helps enterprises keep their
users connected to applications in a cost-effective, secure and fast
manner and powers an enhanced user experience on any device in any
location.
The evolution of the software-defined network is challenging enterprises
to consider how to make their applications more agile within the network
as they are no longer confined to a traditional datacenter but are
moving to the cloud or offered as a service. With this new reality in
mind, the company’s vision of the workspace delivery network requires
enterprises to address network automation, focus on end-user experience
and reevaluate traditional operational expenses for technology that
supports applications. Citrix helps support this network automation with
key partnerships that enable our customers to have a powerful way to
bring virtualization and software flexibility into their datacenters.
Citrix technology, including NetScaler and CloudBridge, help enterprises
address today’s networking challenges by enabling the secure and
cost-effective delivery of applications and data to any user at any
time, in any location, to help them meet the demands of their business.
For example, a leading multi-national financial services corporation has
deployed NetScaler to deliver a single remote access solution
consolidating other previously purchased vendor solutions into a
NetScaler infrastructure to address disaster recovery and improve
availability and uptime. This consolidated remote access solution
increased capacity, reduced operating costs and freed up scarce
networking administration resources for other critical projects such as
SDN. Other key customers have chosen NetScaler due to the competitive
nature of its compelling security features, including end point
analysis, AppFirewall and DNS attack protection. Additional customers
who use Citrix networking solutions include Cornerstone Home Lending,
Inc. and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Ltd.
At Citrix Synergy, Citrix is unveiling the following new networking
products to deliver simplified, reliable mobile workspaces worldwide.
NetScaler with Unified Gateway Drives Security at the Edge
The new release offers compelling business and user-related benefits,
including an optimized user experience through a single portal to access
any type of application; flexibility for users to use any device to get
information from any location; and increased productivity as users have
“always-available” access to their workspaces with higher performance.
The new solution delivers the following key benefits:
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Unified Remote Access Infrastructure – consolidates all remote
access into a single end-to-end solution for all enterprise, web,
mobile, cloud and SaaS applications, as well as Citrix applications on
any device. This consolidation frees up IT resources, as well as
drives operational efficiency and reduces operational costs while
increasing functionality.
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One URL for Simplified Access for End Users – provides a single
highly-customizable GUI for end users to access all their applications.
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Secure Single-sign On – allows integration with
enterprise identity stores such as Active Directory, as well as
federation with other systems through SAML.
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Unparalleled Visibility – allows for deeper enterprise
security and compliance oversight by real-time, end-to-end visibility
and reporting of all end-user ICA, TCP and HTTP traffic.
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Centralized and Simplified Security Policy - SmartControl, one
of the new features of NetScaler, provides administrators with a
simpler way to set access controls for individual XenApp and
XenDesktop users based on sophisticated policies set forth by
compliance requirements.
NetScaler already helps organizations delivery a powerful app user
experience and is the only product that seamlessly integrates with
XenApp and XenDesktop providing secure remote access with real-time and
historical monitoring of application traffic for the fast resolution of
network and datacenter issuers.
CloudBridge Virtual WAN Reduces Costs
In addition to the NetScaler with the new Unified Gateway features,
Citrix also recently announced the CloudBridge Virtual WAN Solution that
powers the cost-effective delivery of applications and business-critical
information to enterprise branch locations and address the challenge of
scaling WAN bandwidth at a low cost. As a key piece of the workspace
delivery network, CloudBridge Virtual WAN reduces the cost of delivering
applications, documents and IT services to branch offices by up to 80
percent, while ensuring nearly 100 percent application availability to
power “always-on” branch workspaces. CloudBridge Virtual WAN solution
enables enterprises to create a virtualized WAN by bonding multiple
network services such as MPLS, broadband, mobile and satellite Internet
together to maximize WAN capacity and reliability. CloudBridge Virtual
WAN constantly assesses the performance of paths within the virtualized
WAN to instantaneously and automatically adapt to changing network
conditions. This solution ensures “always-on” connectivity of
mission-critical applications without human intervention or complex
routing table reconfigurations.
CloudBridge Virtual WAN offers enterprises the following benefits: the
ability to dramatically lower costs for expanding capacity; the delivery
of a superior user experience through improved quality for all
application types; a way seamlessly pool active and backup link capacity
before a failure event occurs; ensured availability of high-priority
applications; a method to easily manage and monitor WAN performance; and
a secure way to connect cloud to branch through the use of advanced
encryption between CloudBridge devices on customer premises or in the
cloud when using the Internet.
Secure application delivery between the cloud, data center and branch is
essential and enterprises can rely on Citrix to deliver a complete
end-to-end solution powered by its key networking portfolio of products
which power “always on” branch workspaces and deliver “always available”
access to applications on any device in any location.
Quotes
Manoj Doshi, Director of Client Technology Innovation, Aetna
“Today, we use NetScaler to provide secure access to support our global
XenDesktop and XenApp users, and for our team to gain visibility and
insight into end-to-end user experience. With these new enhancements to
NetScaler, we would potentially be able to further consolidate our
infrastructure and improve user experience through a single point of
access.”
Jeanine Graham-Bellamy, Director of Technology, Royal Caribbean
Cruise Lines, Ltd.
“As an international company one of our pain points is being able to
provide consistency and reliability throughout the globe in our
different call centers, domestically and internationally. By leveraging
CloudBridge and NetScaler, we are now able to provide a faster
performance time for end users in a more reliable environment. Citrix is
helping us do our jobs by making the information we need readily
available to give to our guests, callers and reservation agents.”
Ricky Caldwell, Director of Server Architecture and Infrastructure,
Cornerstone
“Once we laid out a vision for the next three to five years and how fast
new branches need to come online, Citrix was a no-brainer for us. We did
a proof of concept in our West Coast offices and saw an immediate
performance improvement for loan origination.”
Marc Pare, Vice President, Sales and Marketing at CloudOps
“We are very excited about the enhancements to NetScaler and
CloudBridge. The new delivery network solutions will provide our
customers with added security and performance and provide us with the
opportunity to continue to expand our cloud networking business. We are
pleased that Citrix has decided to work closely with the channel to help
us tap into this growing market with networking solutions that help
customers deliver and consume cloud services from providers like AWS,
Azure and cloud.ca.”
Steve Shah, Vice President, Product Management, NetScaler at Citrix
“Networking infrastructure is essential to the secure and efficient
delivery of the mobile workspace. As the market changes, enterprises
need the flexibility to align their technology investments to the
demands of their business, as well as their customers and employees, who
are vital to their success. We’re listening to our customers and
delivering new solutions with compelling features to let them focus on
growing their business while Citrix takes the complexity out of the
network through comprehensive mobile workspace solutions that are easy
to deploy and access worldwide.”
Chalan Aras, Vice President and General Manager, CloudBridge at Citrix
“Delivering a delightful workspace experience to the branch is a primary
expectation of our enterprise customers. The CloudBridge Virtual WAN, as
a workspace delivery controller, ensures a superior experience while
bringing tremendous WAN cost savings and visibility to application
delivery for branch users.”
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workplace, uniting virtualization, mobility management, networking and
SaaS solutions to enable new ways for businesses and people to work
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apps, desktops, data and communications on any device, over any network
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