Citrix NetScaler VPX

Announcing NetScaler VPX

Full NetScaler functionality in a simple virtual appliance

Citrix NetScaler VPX provides the complete NetScaler web application load balancing, acceleration, security and offload feature-set in a simple, easy to install virtual appliance. IT organizations of any size can deploy NetScaler VPX on industry standard servers—on-demand—anywhere in the datacenter.

NetScaler VPX makes functionality typically only available on specialized, high-end network devices available as a virtual appliance that can be easily and dynamically deployed on a single server, or across entire cloud datacenters. Used alone for individual applications or in conjunction with NetScaler appliances to optimize entire datacenters, the simplicity and flexibility of NetScaler VPX make it easy and cost effective to fully optimize every Web application.

Bringing advanced web application delivery mainstream

Small and medium-size businesses can now cost effectively deploy full NetScaler functionality in front of Web-based applications like Microsoft SharePoint and Office Communication Server. NetScaler VPX makes it easy to deploy the same advanced load balancing, application security and application acceleration functionality enterprises rely on, but sized specifically for the needs of smaller organizations. The net result is faster response times and less application downtime.

Smaller XenApp and XenDesktop deployments can now benefit from the same integrated secure remote access, global server load balancing and load balancing for Web Interface and XML broker that NetScaler appliances provide, and run it using the same server infrastructure used to run XenApp itself.

NetScaler VPX can be easily incorporated into development and lab environments, making it easy to integrate NetScaler load balancing, application acceleration and application security functionality into application development and test cycles. Development teams can easily tap all of NetScaler’s advanced functionality, and by making it easy to include NetScaler in test cycles there is less likelihood of application and network conflicts when new applications are rolled out.

Service providers, cloud providers or any organization that host web applications can provision and de-provision NetScaler VPX instances on demand, using general datacenter capacity and automation processes already in place. Infrastructure reuse is increased, datacenter footprints are reduced, and new hosting needs are met faster.

Converging virtualization and web application delivery

In addition to supporting datacenters relying upon virtualized server and application resources, NetScaler VPX enables Web application load balancing, acceleration, security and offload to become virtualized services that can be easily deployed on-demand anywhere in the datacenter. Web applications and their associated Web application delivery services are brought closer together, and established datacenter processes for tasks such as provisioning, automation and charge-back can be used for the Web application delivery infrastructure.

NetScaler VPX can be incorporated within larger automation/orchestration solutions using Citrix Workflow Studio or orchestration solutions from Citrix partners, enabling organizations to provision load balancing and advanced web application delivery services on-the-fly as application instances themselves are spun up.

As multiple cloud datacenters begin to be used, NetScaler VPX instances can easily ‘follow their app’. Global data center architectures, using “virtual-only” footprints in the specific datacenters where it makes sense, are possible, eliminating the need to replicate specialized physical infrastructure in every datacenter or hosting facility.

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