Citrix Systems, Inc. : Citrix NetScaler Delivers Massive Network Consolidation for Private and Public Clouds
10/05/2011| 08:15am US/Eastern
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Citrix Systems today unveiled four new additions to its leading Citrix®
NetScaler® MPX? and SDX? product lines, delivering the unprecedented
performance and virtualization that businesses require in the Cloud Era.
Virtualization has been integral to the development of enterprise
private clouds, which are being pressed to deliver unprecedented levels
of utilization and elasticity. While server and storage infrastructures
have been prime beneficiaries of virtualization, the end-to-end
networking fabric - representing nearly one-fifth of total datacenter
investment - has not yet included the virtualization of key networking
services. What is required is a next-generation networking platform that
integrates virtualization directly into the networking fabric to
consolidate network services at scale, and deliver Pay-As-You-Grow
elasticity. The new NetScaler SDX and MPX platforms, including the 50
Gbps SDX 21550 appliance, provide the right networking footprint to
tackle large-scale network consolidation initiatives with the
flexibility to scale without additional hardware.
Successful network consolidation requires more than applying
off-the-shelf virtualization to decouple selected networking functions
from dedicated hardware. It demands a natively virtualized architecture
that efficiently scales services, protects application SLAs by fully
isolating processing resources, and delivers on-demand elasticity. The
new NetScaler SDX platforms meet these requirements and more, supporting
up to 40 completely independent NetScaler instances on a single
appliance - 2.5 times more than competing hardware chassis-based
solutions.
In addition, NetScaler SDX completely isolates system resources, such as
memory, CPU and SSL processing, so that the demands of one application
do not degrade the performance of another. Besides delivering dedicated
SSL resources for each NetScaler service in a multi-tenant environment,
the new platform also sets a new high-water mark for SSL performance.
Organizations are transitioning to 2048-bit SSL standards for stronger
application security. This shift, along with increased SSL coverage
across applications, is putting network and application performance at
risk due to the increased processing demands required by stronger SSL
key lengths. Smoothly transitioning to stronger 2048-bit SSL
necessitates a re-examination of the infrastructure to ensure that
processing capacity meets emerging needs. New NetScaler MPX and SDX
platforms are designed from the ground up to handle 2048-bit and
stronger SSL security, with support for 90,000 new 2048-bit SSL
transactions per second, more than two times faster than the leading
competitor.
What's New
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Industry-leading Network Consolidation: The new NetScaler SDX
appliances integrate virtualization directly into the network fabric
to support up to 40 completely independent NetScaler instances for
large-scale consolidation projects. Each NetScaler instance and policy
is supported by dedicated CPU, memory, SSL and compression resources
to protect application SLAs, and to meet strict security and
compliance mandates.
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Fastest 2048-bit SSL Performance: NetScaler handles 90,000 new
SSL transactions per second with 2048-bit keys, more than two times
faster than the leading competitor.
Pricing and Availability
Citrix NetScaler MPX and SDX versions of the 17550, 19550, 20550 and
21550 appliances meet a broad range of price-performance requirements.
These models are available later this quarter through Citrix Solution
Advisors worldwide. Pricing begins at $145,000 for NetScaler MPX and
$220,000 for NetScaler SDX - with no additional cost for enabling
maximum SSL performance. Customers can upgrade platform performance and
scalability with NetScaler Pay-As-You-Grow licenses.
Quotes
Sunil Potti, Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Networking
Platforms Group, Citrix
"Citrix innovation is leading the migration to the Cloud Era. Our
ability to consolidate 40 virtual appliances into one network form
factor is an amazing advancement for customers implementing private or
public clouds. The new NetScaler platform is the only product in the
market that uses integrated virtualization to offer the flexibility to
scale as needed without having to purchase additional hardware thereby
driving true elasticity into the network."
Jim Frey, Managing Research Director, Enterprise Management
Associates (EMA)
"Citrix continues to demonstrate a relentless focus on improving the
performance of virtualized, cloud-delivered applications, including at
the network infrastructure layer. This new set of NetScaler capabilities
represents an aggressive move to leverage both virtualization and
hardware advances to elevate the state of the art in Application
Delivery Controllers."
About Citrix NetScaler
Citrix NetScaler makes applications and cloud-based services run five
times better by offloading application and database servers,
accelerating application and service performance, and integrating
security. Customers looking for a powerful application
delivery solution can choose the popular NetScaler MPX hardware
appliance, which powers most of the world's largest enterprises and
websites - as well as thousands of small to midsized companies.
Organizations requiring the full breadth of NetScaler features in a
flexible software form factor can chose the NetScaler VPX virtual
appliance. Enterprises and cloud providers that want to deliver
applications and services in a virtualized, multi-tenant platform can
choose NetScaler SDX.
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About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtual
computing solutions that help people work and play from anywhere on any
device. More than 230,000 enterprises rely on Citrix to create better
ways for people, IT and business to work through virtual meetings,
desktops and datacenters. Citrix virtualization, networking and cloud
solutions deliver over 100 million corporate desktops and touch
approximately 75 percent of Internet users each day. Citrix partners
with over 10,000 companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was
$1.87 billion. Learn more at www.citrix.com.
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