The global semiconductor shortage continues to place severe constraints on IT departments. The U.S. Department of Commerce reports that demand for chips has risen by 17 percent from 2019 to 2021, with little growth in supply. The mismatch in supply and demand has led to delays and even cancellation of critical digital transformation initiatives.
This shortage has served as a wake-up call for technology leaders. There is a growing realization that excessive dependency on hardware vendors can jeopardize digital transformation initiatives. These technology leaders are accelerating their move to the cloud.
Get your IT initiatives back on track with Citrix ADC
Citrix ADC helps alleviate the impact of chip shortage and puts IT initiatives back on track by enabling digital transformation with a software-first approach. Citrix ADC has a single code base across its many form factors ranging from hardware to virtual instances and containers. This gives, customers the freedom and flexibility to deploy Citrix ADC on any hypervisor, bare metal Linux or cloud — seamlessly. This is in contrast to many other ADC vendors, who are often reliant on specialized silicon for their features and performance
The key benefits of Citrix ADC include:
- A comprehensive security stack that protects all the apps and APIs across all clouds and on-prem without impacting performance.
- Greater agility by using SaaS-powered automation, visibility, and control, making it easy to deploy apps across any cloud seamlessly.
- Advanced app optimization that delivers the best user experience for employees, customers, and partners
Flexibility with Performance
Over the years the Citrix ADC software stack has been optimized to use every ounce of juice from the underlying bare metal server. This has been validated by Tolly Group assessment of our products against competitors.
According to Tolly Test Report #221100, Citrix ADC software (VPX and CPX) delivers:
- 20 percent of the latency of F5 in HTTPS data throughput tests
- 50 percent of the latency of F5 in HTTPS transaction tests
- Up to 1.85 billion more HTTPS transactions in 24 hours
- Lower latency and substantially lower CPU utilization than F5 with and without WAF enabled
- And much more …
The software form-factors of Citrix ADC (VPX and BLX) provide line-rate performance for application delivery needs and boosts application performance. Whether you have your applications deployed on-prem or in the cloud you can easily use Citrix ADC VPX or BLX to solve your application delivery needs — even with an old commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) server lying around in your datacenter.
Citrix’s App Delivery Software Portfolio
Allocate capacity when you need it faster
- Citrix ADC with Pooled Licensing enable you to shift capacity where its needed, fast.
- Going hybrid with Citrix ADC protects your existing ADC investment while adopting cloud in a phased manner.
Operational consistency across clouds
- Only Citrix uses a single code base to offer feature parity across its entire ADC portfolio
- Citrix ADM enables you to see, manage, and troubleshoot your entire application ecosystem holistically, wherever it’s deployed
Comprehensive and consistent security
- Comprehensive, layered security with WAF, bot management, SSL/TLS, and API protection ensures consistent policies across your on-prem and cloud environments
Holistic visibility of your entire ADC infrastructure
- Citrix Application and Delivery Management (ADM) service enables you to see, manage and troubleshoot your entire ADC estate across clouds with a single pane of glass.
Intent based App delivery and Security
- Citrix App Delivery and Security Service (CADS Service) radically simplifies application delivery and security infrastructure deployment, configuration, and management
Software-First Flexibility with Citrix
The Citrix App Delivery and Security stack is the only commercial solution that gives customers the flexibility they need to embrace digital transformation with a software-first approach. Whether you deploy your apps on-prem or cloud, you can use Citrix ADC VPX, Citrix ADC BLX, or Citrix App Delivery and Security Service to solve all your application delivery needs with all the required functionality and guaranteed performance.
Learn more about Citrix ADC and Citrix App Delivery and Security Service.
