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Oracle EBS 12.1 runs on XenApp
Citrix XenApp™, a member of the Citrix Delivery Center™ product family, is the industry's de facto standard for delivering Windows-based applications with the best performance, security and cost savings. XenApp is the most complete application virtualization system available with the ability to virtualize applications on both the client side and server side, delivering them on demand based on the user, the application or the location (online or offline).
By centralizing applications and data in secure datacenters, IT can reduce the costs of management and support, increase data security and facilitate business continuity. XenApp Platinum Edition adds critical capabilities for application performance monitoring, secure remote access, WAN optimization and single-sign-on application security.
Citrix XenApp is compatible with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1. Organizations of any size can deploy XenApp on industry standard servers anywhere in the datacenter, on a single server or across all cloud computing datacenters. This simple integration takes Enterprise applications into the virtual realm, allowing customers to run Oracle on Virtual Machines, within XenServer, delivered to the end user through XenApp.
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Oracle EBS 12.1 is integrated with Citrix NetScaler
Deployed in front of Web servers, NetScaler application delivery controller models combine load balancing and content switching. Potential benefits include application acceleration, content caching, SSL acceleration, network optimization, and application performance monitoring in a single built-for-purpose hardware platform. Unlike other approaches that require multiple point products, NetScaler is an all-in-one appliance that is easy to deploy, configure, and operate with AppExpert Visual Policy Builder GUI-based tools, AppExpert Templates, and multiple wizards.
NetScaler 9.1 is available in both hardware-based (NetScaler MPX) and application-based deployments (NetScaler VPX). All deployment options available in version 9.1 are compatible with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1. Organizations of any size can deploy NetScaler VPX on industry standard servers anywhere in the datacenter. NetScaler VPX enables load balancing, application acceleration, application security and server offload to become virtual appliance-based services that can be easily and dynamically deployed; on-demand and anywhere in the datacenter. Whether installed on a single server or across all cloud computing datacenters.
Download the Citrix NetScaler, Oracle EBS 12.1 Deployment Guide.
Download the Citrix NetScaler, Oracle EBS 12.1 Data Sheet.
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NetScaler Virtual Machine
Today, Citrix announced a virtual appliance version of their NetScaler Application Delivery Controller - the NetScaler VPX, the first of its kind. All of the functions that traditionally were performed in the datacenter can now be performed in the domain of virtual machines. Load balancing, application acceleration, security and offload functionality are now available as a XenServer virtual appliance.
Industry's first Virtual Load Balancer
No other vendor offers this type of software as a Virtual Appliance. By making advanced web application delivery functionality available as a virtual appliance, NetScaler VPX drives convergence of virtualization and networking. In the continued movement toward simple and affordable convergence, NetScaler VPX makes sophisticated application delivery functionality available to any size organization. This breaks down deployment barriers for all types of organizations.
What used to run on a proprietary piece of hardware now runs on any hardware that supports virtualization. Because there is no physical appliance to ship, install or move VPX can be installed at a moment's notice, on any server running XenServer.
The challenge
- Check out The Great NetScaler VPX challenge and get $10,000.
- The Tech Preview will be downloadable from citrix on May 18th.
- If you are running VMWare, you need to run Xen - and why wouldn't you, Xen is free.
NetScaler VPX
You might have already seen the announcement of Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 Feature Pack 1 and its big features (SmartAuditor, EasyCall, Simplified licensing etc). This article is to talk about improvements that have not been highlighted in our marketing message but do have high value for some customers and partners.
1. SecureICA (128-bit encryption) for x64 platform
Our previous PS 64-bit release did not support this and we have now added support for this feature.
2. Client certificate support
The ICA Client now supports client side certificates. For e.g. if you configure Access Gateway to require SSL certificates then the client can present one during the SSL handshake. Jay has the details in his blog
3. Multi monitor enhancements
Several enhancements and fixes have been made e.g. dialog boxes and GINA windows don appear between the monitors, a primary monitor can be selected for application launch, a hot key is available to minimize a published desktop (useful when in full screen mode), supports shaped monitors by auto detecting the monitor configuration, a desktop session can be resized so it can occupy the entire real estate etc.
4. Presentation Server SDK now includes SmartAccess extensions
Presentation Server SDK has been updated to allow enumeration of SmartAccess filter information for active sessions on Presentation Server. These filters are provided by Access Gateway as a result of policy evaluations which may include endpoint analysis results. This is great way for partners to extend our SmartAccess functionality.
5. Icon support for WI PN Agent
WI and PN Agent now support true application icons (including 16x16, 32x32 and 48x48 size icons) and hence icons will now look original (as opposed to being stretched or shrunk). We do cache these icons on the client and hence you will not see any increase in network traffic (except for a very small increase the first time a user launches the new client from a new device)
6. Large application profiling support for application streaming
Microsoft CAB file has the limitation that each CAB cannot be more than 2 GB in size, and cannot have more than 64,000 number of files in it. This puts limits on large application profiling. We have now worked around this limitation so that extremely large applications can be profiled through application streaming profiler.
7. Web Interface client detection wizard for enhanced end user usability
WI now does a much better job in bootstrapping a user when they are coming from a new device to access applications. This feature can be very useful when users are coming from locked down machines/browsers with high security settings as it can properly guide a user to getting to their application fast.
8. Support for DirectX/WPF applications
PS 4.5 Feature Pack 1 now supports WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) applications. Though there are currently not many WPF applications, many application vendors are embracing this platform for their next generation application development. This is our first step in supporting WPF applications (using server side software rendering) and please check out Derek's blog on what we are doing for the future
9. Windows Mobile 5 and ActiveSync support
This release now adds support for Windows Mobile 5 based smart phones and PDAs to sync data (application data, files, e-mail etc) with ActiveSync 4.x as a published application.
10. Updated PS Unix
Citrix Presentation Server for UNIX 4.0 now supports Solaris x86/x64 platform. This is in addition to our current support for Solaris SPARC, IBM AIX and HP-UX platforms. This new Solaris x86/x64 release contains several enhancements since the initial release of PS for UNIX 4.0 and is available to all customers current on Subscription Advantage. You can log into mycitrix and get the bits from the download section.
Both IBM and HP ship and fully support Solaris on their x86/x64 server lines so customer options are not restricted to Sun Microsystems own x86/x64 servers when delivering solutions with Citrix Presentation Server for UNIX 4.0. Sun Microsystems also provides Solaris only support options for delivering solutions on x86/x64 servers from other manufacturers.
The PS UNIX platform support page has the details.
Additionally, Presentation Server 4.5 Feature Pack 1 contains an updated PS 4.0 UNIX release (all platforms) with the latest updates and ability to consume Platinum licenses.