Citrix Positioned for the Eighth Consecutive Year in the Leaders Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers MQ
October 27 2014 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Key Criterion in 2014 Focuses on the Vendor’s
Ability to Understand How Emerging Network and Application
Deployment Options, such as SDN and Cloud Services, Affect the
Future of ADCs
Citrix® today announced that NetScaler®, the industry’s most
advanced cloud networking platform, has been evaluated and
positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant in the 2014
Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers[1] (ADC) report
authored by Gartner analysts Mark Fabbi and Andrew Lerner for the
eighth consecutive year.
According to Gartner, Inc. “a Leader exhibits the ability to
shape the market by introducing additional capabilities in its
product offerings and by raising awareness of the importance of
these features. Key capabilities for a Leader revolve around the
ADC capabilities that focus on enterprise application capabilities.
We expect a Leader to have strong or growing market share and to
have solutions that resonate with an increasing number of
enterprises. Expertise in complex data center application
deployment is also necessary to be a Leader in the Magic Quadrant
for ADCs.”
NetScaler is the world’s most advanced application delivery
controller for mobile and web infrastructure. It optimizes, secures
and controls the delivery of enterprise and cloud services while
also maximizing the experience for all users. NetScaler
MobileStream™, which provides visibility into mobile applications,
significantly improves mobile network and application performance,
while tightening security for both the enterprise and the end
user.
NetScaler is well established as the industry’s leading internet
delivery system, touching an estimated 75 percent of internet users
each day. Citrix builds on this leadership to provide the world’s
most advanced cloud networking platform, giving customers a single,
integrated solution that brings the elasticity, simplicity and
expandability of the cloud to any network.
The full 2014 Gartner Application Delivery Controller Magic
Quadrant, report can be viewed on the
Citrix website.
[1] Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery
Controllers” by Mark Fabbi and Andrew Lerner, September 11,
2014
Quotes
Sunil Potti, Vice President and General Manager, NetScaler
Product Group, Citrix
“In today’s mobile world, enterprises and service providers must
adopt scalable, high performance datacenter technology that ensures
optimal performance and security for mobile networks. With
NetScaler, we are building on our leadership in powering the
world’s largest internet and cloud providers, as well as our
partnerships with industry leaders in software-defined networking,
to continue delivering the most advanced cloud networking platform
available today. We are honored that for the eighth consecutive
year, to be recognized by Gartner which we feel is evidenced by our
placement in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2014 Gartner Magic
Quadrant for ADCs.”
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About Citrix
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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 more at
www.citrix.com.
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