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202010

Citrix Integration with GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform Brings Elasticity to Enterprise
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New York - Today at the Interop 2010 conference in New York, Citrix Systems, Inc. announced the integration between Citrix® NetScaler®, Citrix® XenServer® and GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP). This combination of technologies addresses the need for seamless infrastructure and application scalability and elasticity. Unlike some competitive offerings that restrict users to a single application framework/hypervisor combination, Citrix and GigaSpaces support multiple frameworks (Spring, J2EE, .NET) as well as multiple hypervisors. IT managers today can use Citrix and GigaSpace technology together to apply “scale out” techniques for complex applications that were not initially designed to do so. This capability in turn lowers the barrier to hosting these applications on cloud infrastructure, whether enterprise private clouds or a hybrid clouds spanning on and off-premises datacenters.  

Whether IT managers are working with traditional high-performance enterprise applications or next generation Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)-based applications, the integration of Citrix OpenCloud infrastructure with GigaSpaces XAP  provides unique benefits not found elsewhere today. Together these technologies offer the ability to automatically add or drop infrastructure capacity based upon fluctuating application capacity requirements, as well as delivering critical availability, security and application acceleration services.

Facts and Highlights

The combination of Citrix and GigaSpaces technology enables a number of unique customer benefits including:

  • Openness – Together these technologies support Spring apps, J2EE apps and .NET apps so that enterprises are not locked into developing applications to a single framework.
  • Elasticity – Citrix and GigaSpaces combined technologies makes applications more elastic.  Existing applications that were not originally designed to “scale out” can be retrofitted to scale out with minimal changes to existing application code.
  • Evolutionary Path to the Cloud – Giving IT managers the ability to scale out is critical to taking advantage of cloud capacity. The Citrix and GigaSpaces solution allows apps to automatically grow or shrink as capacity needs fluctuate. Coupling the scale out approach with GigaSpaces’ data caching capability makes it possible to extend apps using a hybrid cloud without compromising application performance.
  • Key Enterprise Service Levels – The NetScaler application firewall and SSL VPN features provide critical security and compliance. Sophisticated L4-7 traffic management minimizes load on servers, guarantees availability and enables the apps to run faster.

Quotes

Zeev Bikowsky, CEO, GigaSpaces
Our joint customers will benefit from the combined years of experience that Citrix and GigaSpace offer in providing the best infrastructure and application platforms for flexible application delivery.  With the combination of Citrix and GigaSpaces technologies, IT organizations can adopt cloud-based scaling techniques while still leveraging their in-place investmentments.

Availability

The integration is immediately available, and has been verified as Citrix Ready®. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix.  Citrix NetScaler and XenServer are available now via Citrix networking partners worldwide. GigaSpaces XAP is currently available through the GigaSpaces channel network and on the GigaSpaces website at www.gigaspaces.com.

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Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand service. Founded in 1989, Citrix combines virtualization, networking, and cloud computing technologies into a full portfolio of products that enable virtual workstyles for users and virtual datacenters for IT. More than 230,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to help them build simpler and more cost-effective IT environments. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2009 was $1.61 billion.

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