Citrix Systems, Inc. today joined with industry partners to
announce AppFlow™, an innovative new open standards technology that
delivers deep insight into critical business applications across
both public and private cloud environments. As the industry
transitions from “PC Era” to the “Cloud Era”, traditional
enterprise applications are increasingly being complemented by a
wide variety of new cloud and SaaS applications. This transition
requires a new approach to business intelligence that gives CIOs
access to real time data across a wide variety of traditional and
next-generation cloud apps. Citrix is contributing the new AppFlow
technology to the community as an open standard to accelerate broad
adoption by a wide range of networking, infrastructure and business
intelligence vendors.
The new AppFlow standard technology leverages existing
networking real estate – uniquely situated in the application ‘line
of sight’ - to provide a 360-degree view for all application
traffic and transactions. It transforms enterprise and cloud
networks into a single tap for application data, and exploits the
native intelligence residing in data center footprints, such as
service and application delivery controllers, WAN optimization
controllers and next-generation firewalls. Citrix has teamed with
SolarWinds, Splunk and CA Technologies to introduce AppFlow
solutions that provide a step-function advancement in application
visibility and enhance business intelligence for the Cloud Era.
Using AppFlow makes it easier for IT organizations to overcome
common obstacles to achieving better application visibility,
including the need to deploy intrusive network taps, install
software agents on every server or instrument each application for
specialized monitoring. By utilizing in-place networking solutions,
AppFlow can help companies drive improved visibility and
intelligence for cloud architectures, small and large enterprises
and multi-tenant or multi-service environments.
Citrix® NetScaler® is the first service delivery networking
solution to deliver deep application-layer insight using the new
AppFlow technology. With the advanced, high-performance
architecture of NetScaler, AppFlow runs at line-rate speeds up to
50 Gbps, bringing valuable visibility to even the most demanding
application infrastructures. Additionally, Citrix® Branch Repeater™
intends to support AppFlow to enable unprecedented insight into all
applications and services delivered over WAN, including virtual
desktops and virtual applications, for enhanced operational
visibility and Quality of Service (QoS) control.
AppFlow is supported by the new AppFlow community with active
participation from customers, vendors and industry experts. The
community is anchored by www.appflow.org, an open industry site for
freely sharing best practices, new AppFlow tools and expert
implementation guidance. All vendors are welcome to join and freely
use the new AppFlow technology in their solutions.
Facts and Highlights
- AppFlow
- First open industry technology
dedicated to unlocking real time, natively-generated application
data from existing networking devices for improved operational and
business intelligence across both public and private cloud
environments
- Leverages existing network real estate
obviating the need for intrusive network taps, and software-based
agents
- Early support from leading system
management and business intelligence vendors, such as CA
Technologies, SolarWinds and Splunk
- Open to all vendors to join and freely
use AppFlow technology in their products
- Extends the IETF standard for exporting
flow information, IPFIX (Internet Protocol Flow Information
Export)
Quotes
Rick King, Consulting Systems Programmer, Kindred
Healthcare
“The applications we deliver to our healthcare professionals are
essential to ensure the highest level of care for Kindred
Healthcare patients. Therefore, we must have full visibility into
the performance and behavior of our applications. AppFlow provides
this visibility in an open, standards-based format via our existing
Citrix NetScaler appliances. We’re excited to leverage our
NetScaler investment and integrate this new functionality with our
performance monitoring and systems management tools to ensure the
best user experience for our customers.”
Julie Craig, Research Director, Enterprise Management
Associates (EMA)
“As the growth of cloud computing continues to make inroads into
the enterprise, it brings with it the need for better visibility
into the data that drives the business. At the same time, cloud
computing can make it difficult to access and capture the
business-relevant information required for BI and application
performance management, for example. These challenges are forcing
enterprises to re-think their tools investments in favor of
products that provide reliable, intelligent, and timely insight
into application data flows. The new AppFlow standard offers a
means of gaining this real time access.”
Sanjay Castelino, VP Product Marketing, SolarWinds
"SolarWinds understands that having visibility into the IT
environment is a key factor in successful transitions to
virtualized data centers and, ultimately, cloud-based environments.
By extending IPFIX, Citrix AppFlow offers an easy way to use
existing infrastructure to get that visibility. By partnering with
Citrix to create the Real-Time AppFlow Analyzer free tool, we hope
to get this new approach into the hands of a wide variety of IT
pros and begin to understand how they will use this data and
visibility to solve their IT management issues."
Mark Seward, Director, Security and Compliance Marketing,
Splunk Inc.
"We're excited about our support for Citrix AppFlow. With
Splunk's ability to accept AppFlow data, Splunk can provide
NetScaler customers with new levels of visibility into their
infrastructure. Using AppFlow data with Splunk provides continuous
monitoring needed to help identify potential undetected security
threats, offers visibility into hard to diagnose application
behaviors and also helps ensure a better website experience for
end-users by highlighting the impact of application latency."
Jeff Cobb, Senior Vice President of Strategy, Service
Assurance, CA Technologies
“CA Technologies is excited to announce support for the AppFlow
standard and we expect our customers to benefit from this added
source of intelligence in future network and application
performance management releases. AppFlow aligns with our Service
Assurance strategy to keep adding valuable application delivery
metrics to our solutions without increasing the management
footprint.”
Klaus Oestermann, Group Vice President and General Manager,
Networking and Cloud Product Group, Citrix Systems, Inc.
“We are at the cusp of a major transformation to Service
Delivery as applications are rapidly deployed in the cloud,
delivered over virtual desktops, and delivered to a diverse array
of mobile devices. Citrix is proud to be working closely with
impressive AppFlow partners embrace an open standard that leverages
in-place networking footprints to democratize application
visibility.”
Pricing and availability
Citrix AppFlow is available now. AppFlow template is
published on www.appflow.org, with SolarWinds and Splunk providing
AppFlow support in existing performance monitoring and analytic
tools. AppFlow support is included in version 9.3 of NetScaler MPX™
and VPX™ appliances, and is available in all NetScaler editions at
no additional cost.
Supporting information
- Expert blog: “Introducing AppFlow -
NetFlow for Apps” by Sunil Potti, Vice President of Product
Management and Product Marketing, Networking and Cloud Product
Group, Citrix
- Expert blog: “Changing the Market
Landscape of APM” by Steve Shah, Senior Director of Product
Management, Networking and Cloud Product Group, Citrix
- Expert blog: “Introducing AppFlow.org”
by Steve Shah, Senior Director of Product Management, Networking
and Cloud Product Group, Citrix
- SolarWinds Head Geek Blog Post:
Analyzing Application performance Thru Citrix Netscaler Load
Balancers
- Solar Winds AppFlow video
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About Citrix Systems
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 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.
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