Citrix Enhances Its NetScaler Product Lines

Citrix Systems has unveiled four new additions to its Citrix NetScaler MPX and SDX product lines, delivering the unprecedented performance and virtualisation that businesses require in the cloud era. Virtualisation has been integral to the development of enterprise private clouds, which are being pressed to deliver unprecedented levels of utilisation and elasticity.

The new NetScaler MPX and SDX platforms, including the 50 Gbps SDX 21550 appliance, provide the right networking footprint to tackle large-scale network consolidation initiatives with the flexibility to scale without additional hardware.

“Citrix innovation is leading the migration to the cloud era. Our ability to consolidate 40 virtual appliances into one network form factor is an amazing advancement for customers implementing private or public clouds. The new NetScaler platform is the only product in the market that uses integrated virtualisation to offer the flexibility to scale as needed without having to purchase additional hardware thereby driving true elasticity into the network,” said Sunil Potti, Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Networking Platforms Group, Citrix.

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The NetScaler SDX platforms support up to 40 completely independent NetScaler instances on a single appliance. In addition, NetScaler SDX completely isolates system resources, such as memory, CPU and SSL processing, so that the demands of one application do not degrade the performance of another. Besides delivering dedicated SSL resources for each NetScaler service in a multi-tenant environment, the new platform also sets a new high-water mark for SSL performance.

NetScaler MPX and SDX platforms are designed from the ground up to handle 2048-bit and stronger SSL security, with support for 90,000 new 2048-bit SSL transactions per second.

The new NetScaler SDX appliances integrate virtualisation directly into the network fabric to support up to 40 completely independent NetScaler instances for large-scale consolidation projects. Each NetScaler instance and policy is supported by dedicated CPU, memory, SSL and compression resources to protect application SLAs, and to meet strict security and compliance mandates. NetScaler can handle 90,000 new SSL transactions per second with 2048-bit keys.