Citrix NetScaler is Industry’s First ADC to Integrate with Nexus Fabric Through Cisco’s RISE Technology
April 08 2014 - 8:00AM
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NetScaler Now Available as a Remote Services
Blade for Cisco Nexus 7000
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
Supporting Blogs
- Citrix: The Two Sides of
Automation: Vendor-driven and DevOps
- Cisco: New Remote Integrated
Services Engine (RISE) Enhances L4-7 Appliance Integration with
Nexus 7000 Series
- Joint Video Blog: Interview with
Citrix on the Benefits of NetScaler Integration with Nexus 7000 and
RISE
Related Announcements
- April 2, 2014: Expert Blog
- Towards Standards-based Automation
- April 2, 2014: News Announcement
- Cisco and Industry Leaders Will Deliver Open, Multi-Vendor,
Standards-Based Networks for Application Centric Infrastructure
with OpFlex Protocol
- January 27, 2014: Expert Blog
- Get Your Hybrid Cloud in 2014 with Citrix and Cisco
- January 7, 2014: News Announcement
- Citrix NetScaler Now a Vblock Ready Solution
- December 17, 2013: Expert Blog
- Hybrid Clouds for Citrix and Cisco
- November 6, 2013: News Announcement
- Technology Leaders Rally Behind Cisco's Application Centric
Infrastructure
- June 20, 2013: News Announcement
- Cisco Integrates Citrix NetScaler into Cloud Network
Services Portfolio
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mobile workstyles. With annual revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion,
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