How new capabilities in Citrix ADC 13.0 support business continuity
Citrix ADC helps organizations to ensure they can access their apps and maintain business operations with the scale, performance, and security they need, wherever they’re located and whatever the circumstances.
With shelter-in-place mandates in many communities, customers are expanding their remote-work capabilities with Citrix ADC to provide greater bandwidth and security, whether through more capacity in their data center or through a move to the cloud in remote locations. The new capabilities in our Citrix ADC 13.0 release can support organizations’ business continuity needs.
We delivered on three themes with the 13.0 release, providing expanded Citrix ADC capabilities in the public cloud; enhanced security capabilities; and intelligent analytics and improved ease of use with Citrix Application Delivery Management (ADM).
You’ll find more details on these in our release notes, but let’s take a quick look here at some of the highlights:
Expanded Public Cloud Capabilities:
- Expanded Amazon Web Services (AWS) region support with Hong Kong, China, Paris, and GovCloud US East for customers that have ADC needs in these new regions.
- Additional VPX throughput options on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for customers that require higher solution bandwidth for their applications (and VPX 200 Mbps is coming soon). At same time customers can also use their Bring Your Own License (BYOL) licenses such as VPX 1000, VPX 3000 and VPX 5000 for higher bandwidth and scale.
- Ability to deploy VPX instances on Microsoft Azure Stack and enhancing Citrix ADC VPX metrics with Azure monitor, giving users a single pane of glass to view metrics for all Azure-hosted resources.
These capabilities give a big boost to customers that do not have data centers where their remote workers are. Now, they can expand to cloud partners such as AWS, Azure, and GCP to increase capacity to support remote workers and/or to enable global load balancing with their on-prem data centers for higher availability with greater bandwidth.
Enhanced Security Capabilities
- Citrix Gateway trust renewal support for ADFSPIP for easy updating of existing certificates that are about to expire
- Custom authentication class reference support for SAML SP so customers can customize class names to easily identify specific SAML tags
- Improved performance to authentication vServers with default cache policy
- Improved Citrix Web App Firewall functionality including easier masking of sensitive data with regex patterns and simplified IP reputation category naming
- Enhanced SSL capabilities including front-end support for DTLS v1.2 on Citrix ADC VPX and SSL chip utilization monitoring for the latest hardware models
These new capabilities will give organizations that have expanded their Citrix ADC deployments peace of mind as they enable more employees to work remotely using Citrix Workspace and existing Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops.
Intelligent Analytics and Improved Ease of Use with Citrix ADM
- Intelligent analytics using machine learning algorithms to help customers troubleshoot problems in real time and to offer recommended remedial actions.
- Analytics on bot attacks to help improve troubleshooting capabilities
- Enhanced service graph capabilities that support graphical monitoring of all services and apps
- VMware VMotion support for Citrix ADM to enable migration of an active virtual machines from one server to another
You’ll find more details about the 13.0 release in our Citrix ADC, Citrix ADM, and Citrix Gateway documentation. There are so many great, new features across the ADC, ADM, and Gateway portfolios that will help organizations scale, provide better performance for remote workers, and give IT admins the visibility they need to monitor user experience and all applications, whether on prem or in the cloud. Check them out, and stay safe!
