Nov

72012

New Citrix NetScaler MPX Appliances Extend Industry-leading Scalability to Smaller Enterprises

Citrix TriScale Technology Provides All Business the Elasticity, Simplicity and Expandability of the Cloud

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – November 7, 2012 – Citrix today announced availability of two new NetScaler® MPX™ hardware appliances that will offer smaller enterprises the industry’s most scalable solution to deliver applications, desktops and data with the best performance and highest availability. Now with Citrix TriScale™ technology, NetScaler MPX platforms make it easy for any size business to scale their network with the same technology powering the world’s largest public clouds.  Specifically, the “Scale Up” functionality of TriScale technology provides customer elasticity with five times faster performance on-demand with simple NetScaler Pay-As-You-Grow software-based licensing. This eliminates costly over provisioning and avoids regular ‘forklift’ appliance upgrades.

These new MPX models provide up to one gigabit/second (Gbps) of application-layer performance, yet are affordable for cost-sensitive deployments. Unlike alternative offerings, every NetScaler appliance supports the full breadth of application delivery controller (ADC) functionality. Additionally, NetScaler provides best-in-class performance for SSL, HTTP request processing and concurrent TCP connection support.

Key Highlights

  • On-demand 2x Scalability – NetScaler customers may apply a simple Pay-As-You-Grow license to immediately double performance to meet traffic growth requirements.
  • Compelling Economics – NetScaler MPX provides better price performance with no feature limitations – unlike many competitive offerings.
  • Superior Performance – Leading performance across multiple dimensions, including up to 10,000 SSL transactions/sec, and 250,000 HTTP requests per second.
  • New Hardware Design – NetScaler MPX now leverages the Intel E3-1275 multi-core processor, 8 GB of RAM and a Solid State Drive (SSD) for enhanced reliability. Port configuration includes 6x10/100/1000.

Availability and Pricing

The new NetScaler MPX models include the MPX 5550 and MPX 5650 with 0.5 and 1 Gbps of HTTP throughput, respectively. All models are available now, with pricing starting at $14,000.

About Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) transforms how businesses and IT work and people collaborate in the cloud era. With market-leading cloud, collaboration, networking and virtualization technologies, Citrix powers mobile workstyles and cloud services, making complex enterprise IT simpler and more accessible for 260,000 organizations. Citrix products touch 75 percent of Internet users each day and it partners with more than 10,000 companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2011 was $2.21 billion. Learn more at www.citrix.com.

For Citrix Investors

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