Today at Citrix Synergy™, where virtual computing takes center
stage, Citrix Systems announced two powerful new cloud networking
products designed to seamlessly connect enterprises to external
clouds. The first is NetScaler® Cloud Gateway, which sits at the
“front door” of corporate datacenters giving IT an easy, unified
way to orchestrate the delivery of any mix of SaaS, web and Windows
apps to end users. The second is NetScaler® Cloud Bridge, which
sits at the “back door” of corporate datacenters, giving IT
unlimited capacity by seamlessly and securely extending any
datacenter to any external cloud service. Both products are built
on a common service delivery fabric provided by the recently
announced NetScaler® SDX™ platform (see diagram).
As the industry shifts from the “PC Era” to the “Cloud Era”, the
role of IT is rapidly outgrowing its ability to own and manage all
its own apps, infrastructure and devices. Consumerization is
driving IT to deliver a mix of applications to a variety of
user-owned devices. At the same time, IT is under growing pressure
to take advantage of increasingly ubiquitous and low-cost cloud
computing capacity from external cloud and hosting providers. Until
now, however, those goals have been difficult to achieve without
compromising security, manageability and performance. The
introduction of Cloud Gateway and Cloud Bridge instantly make the
cloud more accessible by giving IT organizations an easy way to
extend their datacenters and private clouds to a vast array of
external cloud services with no compromise.
What’s New
NetScaler Cloud Gateway
- New product that sits at the “front
door” of corporate datacenters to orchestrate the delivery of SaaS,
web and Windows applications from a single location.
- Gives IT a single point of control for
managing all of their SaaS apps, providing secure access, single
sign-on, user provisioning and de-provisioning, unified licensing
distribution and allocation, and service-level monitoring on the
uptime and response time of SaaS apps.
- Seamlessly weaves in the management and
security of existing enterprise Windows and web applications so the
delivery of all apps can be orchestrated from one place.
- Supports all leading browsers and all
versions of Citrix Receiver™, a universal software client that
gives end users easy self-service access to all their apps in one
location, from any PC, Mac, laptop, tablet or smartphone.
NetScaler Cloud Bridge
- New product that sits at the “back
door” of corporate datacenters, connecting them securely and
transparently to compute capacity from any external cloud or
hosting environment.
- Transparently bridges the enterprise’s
network with the cloud provider’s network, making it easy to shift
parts of an application to the cloud without having to change the
app or network.
- Encrypts the connection between the
enterprise premise and the cloud provider.
- Optimizes bandwidth and performance of
data moved between the enterprise and the cloud.
- Allows customers to move app compute to
the cloud, while keeping sensitive data and directory information
securely inside the corporate datacenter.
The new Cloud Gateway and Cloud Bridge products are offered in
flexible physical and virtual appliances, making them easy to
deploy into almost any environment.
Why it matters
Cloud Bridge and Cloud Gateway are part of a growing portfolio
of products from Citrix that make cloud computing easy, secure and
accessible. Together with the rest of the NetScaler product line,
these new products form a “service delivery fabric” that makes it
easy for enterprises and cloud providers alike to manage the
rapidly growing range of new services travelling over the network,
including desktops, data, cloud apps, voice, video and rich media
services. The new Citrix cloud networking products ensure cloud
applications and services are delivered with the best performance,
security and reliability, regardless of whether they are running in
the local enterprise datacenter, or in an external cloud
datacenter.
Quotes
Paul Rad, Vice President of Technology, Rackspace
Hosting
“OpenStack changes the IT equation. Now CIOs can run a highly
standardized and scalable cloud operating system in the datacenters
that Rackspace is deploying globally. NetScaler Cloud Bridge brings
together external and internal cloud infrastructures and opens the
door for IT executives to choose the right computing infrastructure
that makes sense for a particular workload based on the business
needs.”
Antonio Piraino, Vice President and Research Director, Tier 1
Research
“The service provider and enterprise sectors are moving toward
the adoption of cloud computing to make everyday business tasks
easier to distribute and consume, however, there continues to be a
nagging hesitancy to do so as a result of compliance, security and
inconsistency concerns. A solution that offers an end-to-end
solution that gives users easy access to the applications and data
they desire, while also giving IT the control and assurances they
demand from their systems, irrespective of where they reside, is
really what business consumers are asking for today.”
Klaus Oestermann, Group Vice President and General Manager,
Networking and Cloud Product Group
“Citrix is unique in its ability to offer a complete cloud
networking solution that is well suited for both providers and
enterprise customers. With NetScaler Cloud Gateway we have the
front end solution that simplifies the management of SaaS, web and
Windows apps and gives today’s BYO generation the easy access to
all applications they need from any device. And with NetScaler
Cloud Bridge, we allow IT to keep the control and security they
want, while leveraging compute and infrastructure services from
external cloud providers.”
Pricing and availability
For NetScaler Cloud Gateway pricing and availability, please see
Cloud Gateway announcement for more details.
NetScaler Cloud Bridge will be available in the second half of
2011, with pricing starting at $5,000. See Cloud Bridge
announcement for more details.
NetScaler SDX is currently available across a range of platforms
offering performance up to 50Gbps.
Related Links
- NetSuite partner blog: “The March of
Cloud ERP into the Enterprise” by Paul Turner, Senior Director
Product Marketing, NetSuite
- Rackspace partner blog: “OpenStack Gains Enterprise Backing: A Peek at Project
Olympus” by Mark Collier, Vice President of Marketing and
Business Development, Rackspace
- Softlayer partner blog: “Tools and Bridges” by Nathan Day, Chief Technology
Officer, SoftLayer
- Carpathia partner blog: “Cloud Networking Comes of Age” by Jon Greaves,
Chief Technology Officer, Carpathia
- Citrix Expert Blog: “Break Down Walls,
Build Doors… End the ‘IT Cold War’" by Sunil Potti, Vice President
of Product Management and Product Marketing, Networking and Cloud
Product Group, Citrix
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