Citrix and CA Technologies Sign Agreement to Integrate NetScaler and SiteMinder
February 26 2014 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Native Integration of CA SiteMinder with
NetScaler SDX Will Deliver Unified, Multi-tenant Policy Control
Point for Mobile and Cloud Services
Citrix and CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced an
agreement to enable integration of the Citrix NetScaler® SDX™
service delivery networking platform with CA SiteMinder®, a leading
access management solution. This planned integration will
consolidate the capabilities of CA SiteMinder® Secure Proxy Server
(SPS) onto the NetScaler appliance, creating a unique solution for
customers that will solve the problem of device, application and
information diversity; while simplifying user authentication and
providing secure, high performance access.
Consumers today have become more mobile and the use of
heterogeneous devices for information access has added significant
complexity to how users securely access corporate data and
applications. While critical network entry points need to support a
range of traditionally separate functions, it has become more
important for identity and access management solutions to
seamlessly blend into the network infrastructure with simplified
deployment. A unified access infrastructure that works across
applications and network layers is now needed. The planned
integration of NetScaler SDX and CA SiteMinder will
bring together the ability to host multiple networking instances on
a single hardware appliance with the enterprise-class secure single
sign-on (SSO) and flexible identity access management needed to
authenticate users and control access to applications. The
combined solution will lower total cost of ownership for the
respective technologies, while delivering secure and
simplified policy administration.
With the solution from Citrix and CA Technologies that will be
available later this year, enterprise IT will be able to
consolidate hosting of the federated identity and SSO functions,
VPN, application acceleration, application firewalling and load
balancing into the NetScaler SDX platform without having to deploy
discrete physical and virtual devices. As businesses embrace
flexible, multifunction network policy engines to improve
performance and operational efficiency, this integration of
best-in-class policy delivery, identity and access management keeps
information delivery flexible and economical. And as businesses
increasingly embrace cloud architectures, delivering the above
policy control in a hardened, multi-tenant SDX platform will enable
enterprises to have fine-grained control of virtualized apps,
desktops and mobile services - allowing IT to cater to individual
business unit needs without compromising on compliance.
Quotes
Bob Laliberte, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group,
Inc.
“Enterprises are looking for innovative technology platforms to
help transform their data center in order to be more responsive to
the business. Citrix and CA are partnering to respond by
consolidating multiple functions on to the NetScaler SDX platform
with integrations with CA SiteMinder, delivering greater value
within the same physical footprint.”
Sunil Potti, Vice President and General Manager, NetScaler
Product Group, Citrix
“The increase in mobile workers and BYOD deployments has added
significant complexity to secure user access to critical corporate
information. Integrating Citrix NetScaler and CA SiteMinder on
NetScaler SDX lowers the total cost of ownership for the combined
technologies and assures fast, robust and secure policy
administration. We are extremely pleased to be partnering with CA
Technologies to deliver these capabilities to our customers.”
Mike Denning, Senior Vice President and General Manager,
Security Business, CA Technologies
“We expect the integration of CA SiteMinder and Citrix NetScaler
SDX will help improve our customers’ cost structures and IT staff
efficiency as well as enhance overall system performance for
application access. This is one more example of the business
benefit and value our mutual customers receive from the partnership
between Citrix and CA Technologies.”
Related Links
- Expert Blog: SiteMinder moves in with
NetScaler by Kurt Roemer, Citrix Chief Security Strategist
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About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions
that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to
support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA
Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation,
transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the
data center to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies
at www.ca.com.
About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leader in virtualization, networking
and cloud infrastructure to enable new ways for people to work
better. Citrix solutions help IT and service providers to build,
manage and secure virtual and mobile workspaces that seamlessly
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over any network or cloud. This year Citrix is celebrating 25 years
of innovation, making IT simpler and people more productive with
mobile workstyles. With annual revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion,
Citrix solutions are in use at more than 330,000 organizations and
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