Citrix Technology Delivers Application Agility
for the Cost-Effective, Secure and Fast Delivery of Mobile
Workspaces
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:
- 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.
- One URL for Simplified Access for
End Users – provides a single highly-customizable GUI for end
users to access all their applications.
- Secure Single-sign On –
allows integration with enterprise identity stores such as Active
Directory, as well as federation with other systems through
SAML.
- 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.
- 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.”
Related Links
- Announcement: Citrix Outlines Vision
for IT Transformation
- Announcement: Citrix Powers “Always-on”
Branch Workspaces
- Blog: One URL Consolidates Remote
Access Infrastructure
- Video: Citrix Unveils Networking Vision
for the Workspace Delivery Controller
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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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