Cisco revamps Its Cloud Environment with Citrix ADC

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

 

To ensure superior network service positioning and performance, Cisco(NASDAQ:CSCO)has integrated the Citrix NetScaler application delivery controller (ADC) into its Virtual and Fabric Cloud network services portfolio. This integration will help to simplify and accelerate the Cloud networks environment. The ADC controller will be tightly coupled into Cisco’s virtual networking framework.

Ram Appalaraju, Vice-President, Products, Data Center Group, Cisco, stated, “With the addition of the Citrix NetScaler, Cisco is furthering our Cloud Network Services strategy.  By partnering with Citrix, we will be able to offer critical application delivery services to our virtual networking and cloud customers on the Nexus 1K platform.”

Sunil Potti, Vice-President & General Manager, NetScaler Product Group, Citrix, said, “To provide the customers with an application aware network, Cisco and Citrix are collaborating to unify best-in-class technologies based on Citrix NetScaler and Cisco Nexus to accelerate the transformation to new network service delivery models in the Mobile-Cloud Era.”

Bringing Cisco and Citrix technologies together into an integrated solution will help enterprise and service provider customers deliver true cloud service automation, speeding up service deployment and simplifying networking services.

Citrix NetScaler 1000V will seamlessly coexist and interoperate with the Cisco Cloud Network Services family and will bring application delivery capabilities to these services.......See More