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Netscaler DataStream Enhancements in V10…Continuing to Build on Game Changing ADC Functionality

When Netscaler DataStream was first announced, it introduced something that no other ADC was able to offer to the market……an intelligent way to accelerate, optimize and give full visibility to native SQL traffic. Fast forward, a year later, we’ve received a tremendous amount of field adoption and validation, allowing us to continue to add functionality to what appears to be the next frontier in the ...

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Networks built on clouds, which are built on networks

Today at Synergy we announced the availability of a technology preview of NetScaler for Amazon Web Services. The formal announcement is here. To get access to the tech preview, start here.We often say "NetScaler was running the biggest clouds before they were even called clouds." What we're getting at is that NetScaler got its start powering the original "dotcom"/"webmonster" data centers. Looking back, we now ...

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AppFlow… finally unveils the mysterious DB packets flowing in networks!

When we first introduced AppFlow in summer 2011, our goal was simple:“a standard for application monitoring and reporting that democratizes the application data from the network”Since then we have been working hard to achieve this everlasting goal. While some may see this as an impossible, we are committed to socialize more and more application data with every new release.With NetScaler 10, we have introduced the ...

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NetScaler 10 – A Landmark Release with 100s of New Features

NetScaler 10 is a remarkable release which makes world’s best Internet delivery platform the most advanced Cloud Network platform. While Enterprises are transforming their Datacenters to Cloud they need the application acceleration and availability requirements to be taken care of. And beyond that there are several visibility, security and scalability aspects which need to be looked at while they move to Cloud.Talk about Cloud or ...

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Get your VDI project off the ground, attend a Desktop Transformation Workshop

Find a Workshop near you: http://www.registerandcompute.com/2012DTM/EventListing.asp Pre-Read:  (get the most benefit from attending the workshop - please read the description of what's covered below) Who: Citrix Consulting and SE's created and present the content, just the facts! Why did we put the workshops together? * Talking with customers we realized that a lot of deployments plateau once they hit 200-500 or 1000 desktops, or never get off the ground ...

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An Overview of Citrix’s XenApp Deployments

Whenever I get a chance to meet our customer the discussion that generates the most excitement is how Citrix uses Citrix Products. Citrix strongly believes in the “eat your own dog food” mantra. I work on the Citrix on Citrix team and it is our job to delivery Citrix products to the business. In this post I will be discussing the high level XenApp architecture ...

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SQL Connection Multiplexing – The technology behind it and how this benefits database servers

Database servers typically have a TCP/IP stack that is optimized for longer running workloads servicing fewer web/application servers. Today's data explosion challenges the traditional OLTP database architectures with the need for a higher number of web/application servers which are performing much smaller work loads - for instance there are millions of queries/day that are executed on a ecommerce website specializing in travel.  Wait a minute... these challenges are similar ...

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Synergy 204 – “NetScaler DataStream and its legendary awesomeness” – The one session you cannot afford to miss !!

March 29, 2011, history was made with the introduction of the native SQL load balancing of MySQL and Microsoft SQL database traffic - "NetScaler DataStream" techonology in 9.3 version of NetScaler software. NetScaler is the only networking product in the ADC world pioneering database load balancing, content switching and health monitoring. NetScaler DataStreamTM has shown benefits of upto 3x increase in transactions per second and 20x reduction in latency ...

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SQL Server Scalable Shared Databases + NetScaler DataStream (TM) vs Oracle RAC for Data marts & Data warehouse

  SQL Server offers a very simple but effective solution for scaling read-only databases upto a maximum of 8 instances. Oracle RAC achieves the same at a higher cost point and also provides for read/write capabilities that may not be needed for most customers interested in read-only scaling. For a data mart  where database is extracted periodically from the contents of a data warehouse and is ...

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DB Sharding with NetScaler DataStream

Sharding with NetScaler DataStream

Show me a company that has solved Database scaling and I will show you one that hasn’t.  As we all know, databases continue to be the primary scaling challenge within any organization. Various techniques have been applied to address this challenge. Sharding is one of the options that most DB Architects consider when scaling the DB tier especially for SaaS, Social Networking and Online Service ...

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