Citrix Releases Free Developer Version of NetScaler Load Balancer for Microservices App Developers
August 24 2016 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Available now to developers on
https://www.microloadbalancer.com
Digital business transformation is driving line of business
(LOB) to adopt rapid application development and deployment
methodologies, such as DevOps. To stay ahead of the competition and
adapt to rapidly changing customer and market demands, businesses
and governments must automate and continuously adjust key
processes. To do so, companies are increasingly developing their
own applications to improve internal productivity and enhance
customer engagement. Today, Citrix announced NetScaler CPX Express,
a free developer version of NetScaler CPX, which is a
NetScaler in a container form factor that delivers a battle-tested
load balancer for developers to create microservices
applications.
Unlike Free and Open-Source Software (F/OSS) alternatives,
NetScaler CPX Express is a full-featured microservices-aware load
balancer that gives developers the same enterprise-grade, secure
functionality of the market-leading NetScaler platform which is
deployed in more than 20,000 enterprise customers and the largest
public clouds worldwide. NetScaler CPX Express has the same
codebase, REST API, and operations interface as the NetScaler ADC,
enabling a seamless transition of application delivery
infrastructure from development to deployment cycles. NetScaler CPX
Express provides microservices application developers with:
- Application-savvy load balancing
capabilities
- Easy, in-service upgrades with no
disruption to microservices
- Advanced security capabilities such as
SSL offload and protection against network, transport,
application-layer DDoS threat vectors and API rate limiting for
DDOS attack mitigation
- Service discovery and auto
reconfiguration with Google Kubernetes, Docker Swarm and Apache
Mesos container management systems
- Real-time visibility, management and
analytics through integration with the NetScaler Management and
Analytics System
- The ability to get up and running in
less than five minutes
Quotes
Brad Casemore, Research Director, Data Center Networks,
IDC
“With the rise of DevOps and microservices, developers
increasingly are concerned with reliable application delivery as
well as with application development. Unfortunately, at the
inception of many projects, developers do not always have access to
a full-featured ADC. With the introduction of the NetScaler CPX
Express, Citrix is responding to that developer need and helping to
accelerate the speed at which microservices-based applications can
advance from development to deployment.”
Anthony Shaw, Head of Innovation, Dimension Data
ITaaS
“Citrix continues to drive innovation forward with the
introduction of NetScaler CPX Express. It offers developers and
DevOps engineers a free containerized load balancer for layer 4-7
services based on NetScaler, which is ideal for creating
microservices or containerized applications. Developers can pave
the way for the conversion of monolithic applications into
containerized or microservices applications by using the same
NetScaler functionality that exists in production in the datacenter
for application development and all the way through to
production.”
Ash Chowdappa, Vice President and General Manager, NetScaler,
Citrix
“Citrix is continually innovating to deliver solutions for
traditional IT as well as emerging ADC requirements of DevOps
and developer communities. With our market-leading NetScaler ADC
platform, we are empowering developers to build, test and deploy
apps all on a single integrated, scalable and secure platform.
NetScaler CPX Express enables developers to drive applications into
full-scale production quicker than any other alternative available
today.”
Availability
NetScaler CPX Express is available for free download today at
https://www.microloadbalancer.com
Related Links
- Blog: Getting to
a Multi-Cloud Application Delivery Architecture
- Blog: Citrix + Kubernetes = Home
Run
- Blog: Why is Citrix Offering a Free
Container-based ADC for Developer
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people, organizations and things are securely connected and
accessible to make the extraordinary possible. Its technology
makes the world’s apps and data secure and easy to access,
empowering people to work anywhere and at any time. Citrix provides
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application delivery, virtualization, mobility, network delivery
and file sharing solutions that enables IT to ensure critical
systems are securely available to users via the cloud or on-premise
and across any device or platform. With annual revenue in 2015 of
$3.28 billion, Citrix solutions are in use by more than 400,000
organizations and over 100 million users globally. Learn more at
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