Citrix Powers “Always-On” Branch Workspaces
April 23 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
New CloudBridge Virtual WAN Enables
Unprecedented Network Control and Performance to Scale WAN
Bandwidth at up to 80% Lower Cost
Today, Citrix announced the CloudBridge™ Virtual WAN Edition,
which 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. The new CloudBridge
Virtual WAN solution provides businesses with the flexibility to
employ multiple cost-effective WAN technologies, offering the
ability to scale WAN bandwidth at dramatically lower cost than
traditional approaches. The solution also ensures the best possible
user experience by securely sending mission-critical,
delay-sensitive data over the highest performing path. The new
CloudBridge Virtual WAN solution extends the CloudBridge platform
and its integration with the company’s HDX and application
acceleration technologies, to offer the most cost effective and
highest performance solutions for securely delivering mobile
workspaces with the applications, documents and IT services people
need to work better in remote and branch offices.
To meet the demands of the evolving workplace, enterprises are
constantly sharing business-critical information with employees,
customers and partners through applications that are
bandwidth-intensive. Interactive graphics-laden applications,
increased use of HD video streaming, and VoIP consume greater
network capacity year after year. Scaling WAN bandwidth is
expensive for enterprises, as they have traditionally relied on
costly MPLS services to avoid disruption to business and maintain
the usability of mission critical applications.
To address this challenge, the new CloudBridge Virtual WAN
solution allows 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
ensures constant connectivity of mission-critical applications
without human intervention or complex routing table
reconfigurations. Additional benefits of CloudBridge Virtual WAN
include providing enterprises the ability to:
- Dramatically lower costs for
expanding capacity – allows enterprises to augment MPLS with
cost-effective broadband services in order to expand capacity for
the delivery of high-priority application traffic, video and VOIP,
while increasing reliability over a standalone MPLS-based WAN.
- Deliver superior user experience
through improved quality for all application types – offers
enterprises better mobile workspace user experience and high
quality for voice or video over IP services. The experience is
enabled through CloudBridge Virtual WAN appliances that
continuously measure and monitor the latency, jitter and packet
loss of every WAN connection and dynamically make path decisions
using best quality paths.
- Convert backup links to active–
many enterprises already have back-up links in place today but are
not able to utilize them until a failure occurs. CloudBridge
Virtual WAN enables enterprises to easily and seamlessly pool
active and back-up link capacity, therefore eliminating wasted
bandwidth.
- Ensure availability of high-priority
applications – When one or more WAN services are impaired,
CloudBridge Virtual WAN provides a failover system to ensure
adequate bandwidth on the best-performing remaining paths is used
to deliver business-critical applications.
- Easily manage and monitor WAN
performance – presents enterprises with a simple, end-to-end
management system that provides visibility into the WAN and all of
the application delivery from the cloud, data Center or branch,
through CloudBridge Virtual WAN Center.
- Securely connect cloud to branch
– enables enterprises to combine datacenter and cloud
application delivery through the use of advanced encryption between
CloudBridge devices on customer premises or in the cloud when using
the Internet.
Quotes
Paul Garcia, Senior Director of IT Infrastructure, HMS
Host“Today we use Citrix CloudBridge for data reduction and
protocol acceleration to our restaurant and travel service
locations as it speeds up transactions for our customers while also
reducing expense for HMS Host. With this new CloudBridge Virtual
WAN solution, we will be able to further reduce our WAN expenses,
while also ensuring application availability by allowing for
transparent failover between the network connections. We are
excited that Citrix has announced this new solution for the
CloudBridge platform are looking forward to working with it.”
Chalan Aras, Vice President and General Manager, CloudBridge
Product Group“Businesses need a revolutionary solution to
deliver “always on” availability and a high definition experience
as their customers, employees and partners increasingly rely on
time-sensitive information processing for their business.
CloudBridge Virtual WAN helps enterprises eliminate the reliance on
costly MPLS and focus on delivering business-critical data to
mobile workspaces.”
Availability
The CloudBridge Virtual WAN will be generally available as a new
software edition on select CloudBridge appliances in Q2 2015.
Additionally, virtual appliances and versions for third party cloud
providers, such as Amazon Web Services, will be available in Q3
2015.
Related Links
- Announcement: New CloudBridge
Appliances Deliver High Performance at New Levels of Affordability
for the Branch Office
- Blog: CloudBridge Virtual WAN Solution
for “Always On” Availability and Up to 80% Lower WAN Costs
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About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is leading the transition to
software-defining the workplace, uniting virtualization,
mobility management, networking and SaaS solutions to enable new
ways for businesses and people to work better. Citrix
solutions power business mobility through
secure, mobile workspaces that provide people with
instant access to apps, desktops, data and communications on
any device, over any network and cloud. With annual revenue in
2014 of $3.14 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than
330,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn
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