Citrix Systems Bolsters Its NetScaler Service Delivery Networking Products

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04-04-2011
Citrix Systems Bolsters Its NetScaler Service Delivery Networking Products
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To address the exponential growth in cloud, mobile and corporate data, Citrix Systems has unveiled a new DataStream technology in its NetScaler service delivery networking product line.

In a release, the Company said that NetScaler is already firmly established as the delivery infrastructure of choice for most consumer websites and cloud providers, touching an estimated 75 percent of all internet users each day. Leveraging its experience in web applications, NetScaler becomes, the Company noted, the industry's first service delivery controller to extend the benefits of scalability, availability and security for the web tier to the data tier for both enterprise IT and cloud and mobile providers.
Corporations of all sizes are dealing with an explosive growth in data. This growth is driven by broader trends such as the rise of social networks, video and web, along with the expanding number of mobile and consumer devices being used in the workplace. Providing visibility and business intelligence into this data is placing increasing demands on traditional databases, cloud storage models and unstructured file systems like Hadoop. Together, these trends have created an increasing need for solutions that can effectively scale, secure and optimize data infrastructures.

Citrix said that the new NetScaler DataStream technology addresses this challenge by inspecting data traffic in real time and applying optimization and security policies. It is the first networking solution of its kind to apply native data protocol and transaction intelligence to both structured and unstructured data. For databases like Oracle MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server, NetScaler with DataStream technology enables enterprises to scale-up their data infrastructure by offloading CPU and memory-intensive database server connections. For cloud providers who experience three times the average client traffic of the enterprise database, creating a cost-effective, massively scalable database infrastructure is also a key benefit. The new NetScaler DataStream technology also helps companies scale-out their datacenters and private clouds by intelligently load balancing SQL requests to the most appropriate and available servers. It also allows customers to set policies that secure, control and audit data access in real time.

Jacob Rosenberg, Senior Technical Director, Content Services, AOL Inc. said "AOL has leveraged horizontal scaling and sharing of databases to ensure scalability and reliability for our important products. With native SQL awareness for Oracle MySQL databases, NetScaler with DataStream technology provides groundbreaking solutions for database scaling as part of their platform which will let us meet operational and business needs in a cost effective and standard way."

Jarrett Irons, Principal Systems Engineer, Myspace, Inc. said "Myspace employs hundreds of servers to power and manage memory- intensive SQL connections. With the new NetScaler SQL connection management technology, we are able to cost-effectively scale our database infrastructure and achieve greater database density on our Microsoft SQL servers."

Chris Tolson, Chief Platform Architect, bet365 said "A SQL load balancer is an innovative and practical solution to problems of horizontal scalability and resilience for read-only databases. As a large database consumer for high transactional throughput systems, we need to scale out our databases to accommodate both the rate of change in data and the bursts in client demand. We welcome the new feature and are currently evaluating its role in improving this database delivery."

The new DataStream technology is available now in NetScaler version 9.3. This new functionality is supported in all NetScaler editions at no additional cost. The new DataStream technology is available on both NetScaler MPX physical appliances as well as NetScaler VPX virtual appliances.

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