Results for: NetScaler Automation - Part 1
Cloud Networking Fabric with Microsoft SCVMM 2012 and NetScaler
While Enterprises are moving from data center to the private clouds, the key differentiator is automation of the whole fabric and service management. Microsoft® System Center 2012 cloud and datacenter management solutions brings together various pieces to help deploy and manage the private and public cloud applications and infrastructure. It delivers flexible and cost effective solution with all of the cloud principles and techniques embedded, ...
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 ...
TriScale Clustering: The Story of Pizzas and Zebras
At NetScaler, we sowed the seeds of clustering in 2007 when we embarked on our journey to the nCore architecture. The shared-nothing communicating sequential process model of nCore was designed with distributed multi-core multi-node topologies in mind, in anticipation of not only NUMA and NUIOA, but also horizontal scale out clustering.Countless lines of code changes in numerous files, a few dozen patents and 5 years ...
How to Doom a Cloud: Forget Networking
The number of clouds being built that are doomed to failure is staggering. Which is a shame because the builders are getting better by the day.Let me explain.At Citrix, we get the benefit of talking to a lot of people that are actively building clouds. They come in and talk to us about a variety of projects they are working on; from networking to VDI ...
Your Logo Here… Enabling Enterprises to Use YOUR Cloud!
I have heard this time and time again: “Many enterprises want to take advantage of cloud computing but do not want to give up their own datacenters.” I have also heard the term “hybrid cloud” grossly over utilized and defined over and over again. I would make a bet that if you stood in a room of IT folks and asked each person to define ...
Road to Synergy Barcelona… Pushing the boundaries of the datacenter with Citrix NetScaler CloudBridge
I have heard this time and time again, “Many enterprises want to take advantage of cloud computing but do not want to give up their own datacenters.” I have also heard the term “hybrid cloud” grossly over-utilized and defined over and over again. I would make a bet that if you stood in a room of IT folks and asked each person to define “What ...
FIX protocol – Yes NetScaler has been good at that as well !!
FIX protocol is the industry-driven messaging standard that is primarily deployed by global financial services sector to transact and conduct business efficiently with the least latency. The mission of FIX is "To improve the global trading process by defining, managing, and promoting an open protocol for real-time, electronic communication between industry participants, while complementing other industry standards." Even though FIX standard's intentions were geared towards ...
The Reluctance to Code: Is Devops Doomed?
Gartner released their 2011 Hype Cycle for Cloud (original at gartner.com, other analysis at Software Strategies Blog) today. No big surprises if you're following the market, but I was amused to see DevOps listed as a transformational technology in the 5-10 year window. Maybe it's the crowds I hang out with, but I see DevOps as being a methodology that that has reached a level ...
Citrix declares war on Amazon. Excuse me??
As the sun set on the “big day” announcement of our acquisition of cloud.com, I spent a little time eagerly reading and digesting the plethora of articles and blog posts that had been written to cover the breaking news.As I expected, much of the reaction from analysts and bloggers alike was extremely positive. There were tons of articles like this one from ZDnet that showed most folks really ...
Toward Trusted Infrastructure for the Cloud Era
At Synergy 2011 I made the case that the biggest barrier to the adoption of service-provider offered cloud services is the (understandable) lack of trust on the part of enterprise customers. Clouds are viewed as risky, and potentially insecure, at a time of rising cyber-crime, and there is also the issue of reliability. Here's a quick summary:I challenged the perception that enterprises are more vulnerable ...