As IT organizations struggle to keep pace with the demands of business, application delivery has become a major priority for CIOs around the world. Get advice from leading analysts, including Forrester Consulting, on pragmatic steps to transition from application deployment to application delivery.
Delivery, Please!
- Burton Group's Eric Siegel reveals the best practices behind application delivery.

A Guide to Application Delivery for CIOs and Senior IT Executives
- learn how to architect an IT organization that can rapidly respond to new business requirements.

A Guide to Application Delivery for Network Architects
- learn how to improve performance and security for web apps and WANs.

A Guide to Application Delivery for IT Infrastructure Operations
- learn how to enhance security and business continuity for Windows apps.

A Guide to Application Delivery for Desktop Operations Managers
- learn how to streamline management of Windows desktops.

Moving from Application Deployment to Application Delivery
- Learn about the differences between these two paradigms and how application delivery enables a rapid response.

Citrix® NetScaler® web application delivery solutions are purpose built appliances that accelerate application performance up to five times, while simultaneously reducing datacenter costs and improving web application security. Platforms range from the entry level 7000 to the latest MPX-series appliances that provide an industry-leading 15 gigabits per second of througput at both Layer 4 and Layer 7 with maximum simultaneous use of all functional modules. They provide visibility into the end-user application experience and comprehensive web application security in concert with advanced traffic management. NetScaler, a member of the Citrix Delivery Center product family, is an ideal network management solution for any enterprise seeking accelerated Web application performance, improved web application security and increased application availability.

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*Santa Clara, CA » 4/28/2008 »* Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced its new NetScaler MPX line of web application delivery systems.  The new NetScaler solutions feature a massively parallel multi-core system architecture that significantly increases datacenter capacity and delivers 2.5¹  times more web applications with the same infrastructure footprint. Citrix® NetScaler® MPX also provides unmatched performance when delivering applications that demand the highest security and best end-user experience. Today's web applications are straining traditional load balancers and rigidly-constructed datacenters with the integration of rich media capabilities, service oriented architectures (SOA) and interactive Web 2.0 capabilities. These applications are significantly more complex and resource intensive, yet they must still be delivered with the fastest performance, best security and lowest cost. NetScaler MPX is the industry's first web application delivery controller to drive greater than ten gigabits per second (Gbps) of real world application performance while concurrently providing advanced acceleration, traffic compression, and integrated web application firewall security - all in an energy-smart appliance form factor.

As an integral component of the Citrix Delivery Center^TM product family, NetScaler MPX also enables the push toward dynamic datacenters that can more easily adapt to the needs of today's increasingly complex web applications.  As part of this end-to-end solution architecture, NetScaler MPX provides sophisticated workflow virtualization that senses changes in application demand and automatically invokes the necessary application and server resources to meet dynamic workloads. This unique capability provides a fundamental building block of the new dynamic datacenter by offering the necessary scalability and virtualization capabilities needed to cost effectively deliver both enterprise and Internet-facing web applications.

"With its high-performance architecture, NetScaler MPX relieves key customer pain points in large, dynamic datacenters, including the challenge of reducing power consumption while managing traffic loads that are beginning to cross the 10 Gbps threshold," said Cindy Borovick, Research Vice President for IDC's Datacenter Networks service.

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