Citrix Drives Mobile Cloud Innovation with Strategic Investment in Cotendo
June 15 2011 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
Today at the Velocity conference, Citrix Systems (NASDAQ:CTXS)
announced a strategic investment in Cotendo, a leading provider of
innovative content delivery network (CDN) mobile content
acceleration and optimization services. This investment will drive
further innovation in delivering mobile applications to any device,
anywhere in the world. As part of the partnership, Cotendo will use
Citrix® NetScaler® cloud networking infrastructure with Cotendo’s
advanced delivery network to provide the hybrid, next-generation
acceleration and optimization solutions today’s highly interactive
and personalized mobile and web applications require. Citrix and
Cotendo will break down the silos that exist today between
traditional CDNs, advanced cloud-based acceleration services and
on-premise application delivery infrastructure to ensure that
end-users of modern mobile and web applications get the richest and
most secure experience possible.
Mobile application use, and corresponding mobile traffic, is
growing exponentially and is becoming a primary issue of concern
for businesses of all types. Traditional CDN services, which were
designed for static web content, do not provide the functionality
necessary to accelerate the delivery of modern mobile and web
applications. The simple ability to cache content at the edge is no
longer enough to cost effectively serve the demands of today’s
mobile application providers. Since modern mobile web applications
make extensive use of personalization, customization and real-time
updates, they generate frequent interactive communication all the
way back to the datacenter, which is highly inefficient, costly and
slow. Privacy concerns surrounding the highly personal content
within these applications also increases the need for end-to-end
security.
Cotendo’s CDN and cloud-based mobile and application
acceleration services, combined with NetScaler cloud networking
infrastructure running on-premise and in the cloud, reduce the
latency and optimize the bandwidth of the CDN-to-datacenter network
connection dramatically, while simultaneously securing all
communications so that all data in transit is never compromised.
The end result is far more efficient delivery for mobile app
providers, and a significantly enhanced experience for end users
who enjoy the ability to access mobile data more quickly, more
easily and more securely.
Additional Details
Enterprise IT departments increasingly demand end-to-end
solutions that will accelerate their applications, reduce latency,
improve end-user experience and facilitate engagement between any
location and any device. By aligning the application delivery
optimization and acceleration technologies provided by Citrix and
Cotendo, Cotendo will offer a new class of hybrid solutions for
enterprise content delivery that blends hardware, content
acceleration, and the cloud to raise the bar on application
delivery over distributed networks by:
- Minimizing latency and accelerating
application performance from 1.5 to 5X via TCP optimizations, data
compression and data deduplication
- Reducing first and middle mile network
bandwidth consumption by 50 to 99 percent via data compression and
deduplication
- Provide a persistent, encrypted tunnel
between the enterprise data center and the CDN edge to cut SSL
processing requirements at both the CDN PoP and origin
Quotes
Klaus Oestermann, Group Vice President and General Manager,
Networking and Cloud Product Group
“The insatiable desire for mobile apps is putting new demands on
the enterprise datacenter. Technology created years ago to support
the static nature of the web cannot support today’s demands for
dynamic data. Cotendo already has proven itself as a leader in
providing acceleration services that go beyond simple edge caching
to provide highly dynamic, highly interactive mobile and web app
services. By pairing Citrix NetScaler cloud networking
infrastructure with Cotendo cloud-based services, we are giving the
industry the unique hybrid solution it needs. We are committed to
further growing this partnership with focused NetScaler engineering
projects based on continued customer feedback.”
Ronni Zehavi, CEO, Cotendo
“Cotendo is the innovation leader in accelerating sophisticated
content and applications over the internet and from the cloud in
any way the content is consumed – over wired or wireless networks
and to all device types. This powerful combination of Citrix
NetScaler cloud networking technology with our PoPs technology will
address one of the most pressing needs of enterprise customers for
acceleration of personalized, customized content, and will produce
significant new business opportunities for our two companies.”
Solution Availability
The first solutions based on the NetScaler cloud networking
infrastructure and Cotendo acceleration and optimization services
will be available in the second half of 2011.
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Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of
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through virtual meetings, desktops and datacenters. Citrix
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million corporate desktops and touch 75 percent of Internet users
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countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was $1.87 billion.
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About Cotendo
Cotendo is a fast growing innovative provider of CDN and Site
Acceleration services focused on highly dynamic and mobile content.
The company is a market leader in creation of technologies that
allow website operators and large enterprises to dramatically
improve web performance and radically simplify content delivery
management. Cotendo's customer base includes Fortune 500
enterprises, Tier 1 telecommunications providers and the world's
largest social networks, eCommerce sites, and advertising networks,
Cotendo's unique suite of software-based content acceleration
offerings provide unprecedented site performance, transparency and
application-level management capabilities as well as granular
content delivery flexibility, and best-in-class content
acceleration capabilities. The company's management team is
comprised of acknowledged innovators in intelligent content
management and content delivery networks and has been honored with
awards including the Red Herring Top 100, AlwaysOn Global 250
Private Companies, the MIT TR Top 50 Most Innovative companies, and
the Businessweek Top 50 tech start-ups. Founded in 2008, Cotendo is
funded by Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Tenaya Capital.
The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with R&D based
in Israel. For more information about Cotendo and its CDN and Site
Acceleration Services Suite, visit http://www.cotendo.com.
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