New Citrix NetScaler SDX Brings Service Delivery Networking to the Cloud Era
April 19 2011 - 10:19AM
Business Wire
Citrix Systems today announced NetScaler® SDX, a groundbreaking
new virtualized networking platform designed from the ground up to
serve as the “front door” for virtual datacenters and clouds. With
the new NetScaler SDX platform, customers can now run numerous
virtualized NetScaler instances on a single purpose-built physical
appliance with full multi-service, multi-tenant support. This
innovative new architecture helps customers move from traditional
application delivery to far richer “service delivery” required by
the adoption of cloud computing, and growing user demand for new
services delivered to a wide range of consumer devices.
Enterprises around the world are rapidly adopting cloud-based
services to satisfy business demands for greater IT agility, and
user demand for greater service and device choice. To address this
transformation, IT is shifting from the narrow delivery of
traditional enterprise applications to a broader delivery model
that encompasses a myriad of new services such as virtual desktops,
data, collaboration, voice and video - originating from both
private and public clouds, and delivered over a wide array of
networks. In this emerging new model, IT no longer “buys and
builds” all their apps and infrastructure, but rather “aggregates
and orchestrates” a growing variety of local and cloud-based
services.
The new NetScaler SDX platform creates a “service delivery
fabric” that ensures all these apps and services are delivered with
the best performance, security and reliability, regardless of
whether they are running in the local datacenter, or in an external
cloud. As a result, IT teams can now offer networking services that
make off-premise clouds behave as a natural extension of the
enterprise network, while providing broader and deeper control over
how enterprise, consumer and cloud-based services impact the
network.
NetScaler SDX is the latest addition to a growing family of
NetScaler platforms designed to fit the needs of customers of all
sizes and business requirements. Customers looking for a powerful
solution for traditional application networking, for example, can
choose the popular NetScaler MPX hardware appliance product line,
which powers most of the world’s largest enterprises and websites -
as well as thousands of small to midsized companies. Customers who
want all the power of a NetScaler in a flexible software form
factor can choose the NetScaler VPX virtual appliance. And now, for
the first time ever, enterprises and cloud providers who want to
deliver a far wider range of apps and services in a single,
multi-tenant platform, can choose the new NetScaler SDX. NetScaler
instances running on the new NetScaler SDX can also be knit
together with NetScaler MPX and VPX systems running in other
datacenters, transparently connecting the disparate networks of
enterprise datacenters, with public and private clouds.
Facts and Highlights
- NetScaler SDX is a groundbreaking new
platform that uses advanced hardware and software virtualization to
run multiple “virtual NetScaler instances” on a single hardware
appliance – each optimized for different apps, services, sites and
customers.
- Each virtual instance is a complete
NetScaler environment, incorporating all the functions needed to
deliver apps and services with the best performance, security and
reliability, including load balancing, caching, compression, SSL
VPN, SSL offload, federated identity and app firewall.
- NetScaler SDX provides full network,
CPU, memory and SSL acceleration isolation for each virtual
NetScaler instance, as well as per-instance (rather than
per-appliance) high availability, version control and lifecycle
management.
- NetScaler SDX incorporates SR-IOV
(single root I/O virtualization) capabilities from Intel to provide
fast, multi-tenant, multi-service appliance capable of running at
native wire speeds.
- The next-generation NetScaler SDX
architecture provides the foundation for further consolidation of
adjacent service delivery capabilities such as WAN optimization,
network security and virtual desktop delivery.
- A single control plane within the
NetScaler SDX platform provides unified provisioning, monitoring
and management of all virtual NetScaler instances, while also
enabling administrative privileges to be delegated per
instance.
- The NetScaler SDX 17500, 19500 and
21500 models share a common hardware platform with the existing
NetScaler MPX 17500, 19500 and 21500 models, enabling MPX
appliances to be easily upgraded in the field to all the new
NetScaler SDX functionality.
Quotes
Iddo Kadim, Director of Virtualization Technologies,
Intel
"Access performance and tenant isolation are key concerns in
Cloud Computing. In using the unique capabilities inherent to the
Intel(r) Xeon 5600 series processor family and the Intel(r) 82599
10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Intel and Citrix have collaborated
to overcome these concerns in NetScaler SDX. Taking advantage of
Intel Virtualization Technologies in conjunction with open
standards such as the PCI SIG's(r) SR-IOV enables SDX to deliver
new levels of performance with up-to 50Gbps throughput while
providing isolation necessary for multi-tenant environments."
Pacer Hibler, Network Engineer, New Hanover Regional Medical
Center
"Datacenter and network virtualization and consolidation are key
initiatives for New Hanover Medical Center. Strong multi-tenancy
capabilities are essential for allowing us to consolidate in order
to drive down costs, but without compromising the service levels we
provide to the organization."
Klaus Oestermann, Vice President and General Manager,
Networking and Cloud Product Group
“NetScaler SDX transforms how enterprises and service providers
deploy the application availability, acceleration and security
functionality needed to deliver both enterprise applications and
cloud-based services to a widely diverse set of user and devices.
With NetScaler SDX, IT organizations can consolidate as they
virtualize networks and data centers without compromising on the
SLAs committed to their customers.”
Availability
NetScaler SDX platforms include the SDX-17500, SDX-19500 and
SDX-21500, offering performance up to 50Gbps, and will be available
in April 2011.
Related Links and Announcements
- Expert Blog (April 17): Sunil Potti, VP
Product Management, Networking and Cloud Product Group, Citrix
- Title: "ADC’s – Evolve or Die”
- Partner Blog (April 19): Brian Johnson,
Product Marketing Engineer, Intel
- Title: “Using a Standard for I/O
Virtualization to Deliver 50Gbps of Network Appliance
Performance”
- Expert Blog (April 19): Morgan Gerhart,
Director, Product Marketing, Networking and Cloud Product Group,
Citrix
- Title: “Service
Delivery - The New Front Door to the New Datacenter”
- Recent announcement: New Citrix
NetScaler DataStream Technology Addresses Explosive Growth in
Cloud, Mobile and Corporate Data
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