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Citrix NetScaler and Citrix CloudBridge Now Available on Amazon Web Services and the AWS Marketplace
LAS VEGAS --(Business Wire)--
Today, at the AWS
Re: Invent conference, Citrix announced the immediate availability
of Citrix
NetScaler®, the company's advanced cloud
networking platform, and Citrix
CloudBridge™, an innovative solution for enterprises to connect
securely, transparently, and with high-performance to Amazon Web
Services (AWS), via both "bring your own license" and pay-as-you-use on
the AWS Marketplace. Both solutions come in a virtual form factor that
can be deployed directly on AWS. Together, they make it easier and more
cost effective for enterprises to seamlessly extend their enterprise
network to AWS, deploy the same L4-7 network stack on AWS that they use
on-premise, ultimately making AWS a natural extension of their own IT
infrastructure or optimizing production deployments that are solely on
the cloud.
Companies everywhere are looking for effective strategies to harness the
benefits of cloud
computing without disrupting their current business models. As
customers look to adopt business-ready cloud services, they will require
a combination of the elasticity and flexibility they expect of
third-party cloud offerings, and the powerful advanced networking
services used within their enterprise cloud datacenters. NetScaler for
Amazon Web Services (News - Alert) lets customers deploy the same advanced L4-7
services used to ensure the availability, scalability and security of
the largest public and private clouds onto Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
(VPC) within Amazon EC2. Customers get the infinite scalability,
elasticity and security of Amazon VPC and the full complement of
NetScaler application availability, acceleration, offload and security
functionality, all on demand.
Citrix is focused on making it easy for enterprises to connect their
datacenters and private clouds. CloudBridge makes it easier for
enterprises to transparently bridge their enterprise network to AWS by
simplifying application migration, adding additional security layers,
mitigating network latency, and minimizing required application or
network modifications. Citrix CloudBridge for Amazon Web Services will
allow companies to move production workloads securely and transparently
between private datacenters and the AWS Cloud. They will also be able to
consume CloudBridge on a usage-based model through the AWS Marketplace,
making it easy to set up short-term cloud projects with no
infrastructure investment. This approach allows customers implementing
hybrid infrastructure spanning their own datacenters as well as AWS to
use the same cloud networking platform in both, significantly easing the
transition of applications and workloads between the two.
Enabling Key Cloud Use Cases
Availability of NetScaler and CloudBridge on AWS enables a broad set of
use cases for enterprise IT:
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Customers running production on-premise, but using AWS for dev/test
can now include NetScaler within their AWS test environments, speeding
time-to-production due to better mimicry of the production environment
within their test environments.
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Customers with hybrid infrastructure spanning their own data centers
and AWS can use the same cloud networking platform n both,
significantly easing the transition of applications and workloads back
and forth between their own datacenters and AWS.
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Customers looking to use AWS as part of their business continuity
plans can rely upon NetScaler GSLB to run both on-premise or within
AWS to continuously monitor availability of both enterprise
datacenters and AWS environments, while CloudBridge optimizes data
transfer and synchronization between various on-premise datacenters
and AWS environments.
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Customers optimizing and securing full production workloads in AWS
through application acceleration, load balancing, application delivery
networking, and application firewall.
In addition, at Invent, Citrix will be providing a sneak peek of Project
Avalon, a solution that simplifies how enterprises and service
providers can deliver Windows apps and desktops as a true cloud service
to any device. In evidence, Citrix will be demonstrating a preview of
Project Avalon running on Amazon EC2, side-by-side with hosted versions
of Citrix desktop virtualization products.
Supporting Quotes
Rohit Mehra, Vice President, Network Infrastructure, IDC (News - Alert)
"IDC has forecast that cloud computing will account for 46% of net new
growth in IT spending. As enterprise IT embraces cloud computing, it
will require the ability to extend the application availability, control
and visibility it relies upon in its own datacenters to the external
clouds it will utilize."
Terry Wise, Head of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, Amazon Web Services
"We are excited to team with Citrix to make NetScaler for AWS and
Cloud-Bridge for AWS available to customers in the AWS Marketplace. The
combination of Citrix advanced networking solutions and AWS's highly
scalable, secure and flexible platform is a compelling offering in the
enterprise. Making these solutions available on the AWS Marketplace
provides customers with a simple, trusted and secure way to quickly
deploy Citrix on AWS on-demand."
Klaus Oestermann, Group Vice President and General Manager, Cloud
Networking Group, Citrix
"Citrix and Amazon have collaborated together for years on cloud, cloud
networking, and desktop virtualization. We are pleased to extend that
collaboration to include the delivery of Citrix NetScaler and Citrix
CloudBridge on Amazon Web Services. NetScaler provides the world's most
advanced cloud networking platform powering more than 75 percent of
internet-based companies. With the NetScaler solution for Amazon Web
Services, we are delivering the same services used to ensure the
availability, scalability and security of the largest public and private
clouds to customer environments in AWS."
Availability
NetScaler and CloudBridge on AWS are available immediately, with
on-demand availability via the AWS Marketplace. Customers may also
"bring their own" perpetual licenses and deploy them on AWS as well.
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About Citrix
Citrix Systems (News - Alert), 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
This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant
to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of
1933 and of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The
forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute guarantees
of future performance. Those statements involve a number of factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks
associated with the impact of the global economy and uncertainty in the
IT spending environment, revenue growth and recognition of revenue,
products and services, their development and distribution, product
demand and pipeline, economic and competitive factors, the Company's key
strategic relationships, acquisition and related integration risks as
well as other risks detailed in the Company's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Citrix assumes no obligation to
update any forward-looking information contained in this press release
or with respect to the announcements described herein.
The development, release and timing of any features or functionality
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to change without notice or consultation. The information provided is
for informational purposes only and is not a commitment, promise or
legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality and
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions or incorporated
into any contract.
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Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be
registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other
countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property
of their respective owners.
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