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Web Insight: The Complete Solution to Application Visibility
Most of the enterprise services today run over the Web or HTTP/S layer. Businesses are transforming to Web at even more rapid pace given that every enterprise wants to move to Cloud based model for their services. Internal or external all kind of products and services are offered through Web so that customers or employees have connectivity at any given point through their hand-held devices. ...
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SSL Certificate Chaining and Authentication Simplified
SSL protocol mandates authenticating the Server before establishing the session and this is done within initial SSL handshake. Every resource which is serving any content or service on SSL must have its Server certificate which is used for authentication with client. This may sound little odd to begin with that while client initiates the connection still Server has to mandatorily authenticate its identity to Client. This is ...
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NAT46: Helping Internal IPv6 Networks to Evolve
IPv6 has been under discussion from a very long time and now it is discussed more with respect to actual implementation. The key to success relies with the fact how well IPv6 can co-exist with IPv4 in today’s production networks. We have understood that there is no magic to change everything from v4 to v6 in an overnight stint thus we need to have technologies ...
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What happens when Virtualization marries Networking, check out in Synergy: SYN307
SYN307: Ensure XenDesktop success with Citrix networking solutions Networking is core to the success of any delivery model as it is the underlying mechanism which is used for communication all the time. With Citrix XenDesktop becoming the key to success for many global enterprises the networking infrastructure has to match the need and demand for Application and Desktop delivery. Citrix NetScaler is the core Networking solution which ...
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Smartcard based Single Sign-On through Web Interface on NetScaler
Smartcards are the primary mode of authentication in most of the secure environments like Defense, Financial, Banking and some of the Research organizations. In case of Smartcard the user is not expected to remember his password or token thus the authentication flow should work end to end. For example if we authenticate using Smartcard to the most front ending authentication point, the authentication token needs ...
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NetScaler Insight: Redefines Application Visibility
Visibility is the word we come across everyday immaterial of the business we do. Huge amount of information is processed in different forms and what we need is deep visibility into what got processed, what changed, what is new, how does it impact and finally what was my end user experience in this whole process. In our Application centric world the visibility challenges are more and ...
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Get Best TCP Performance for XenApp / XenDesktop Deployments
Performance has been the key in everything we try to optimize and deliver from NetScaler. From many years and several releases we have been optimizing application delivery in XenApp and XenDesktop environments. ICA is the key protocol and we understand ICA well to optimize the flow. ICA works over TCP and for most of the protocols working on top of TCP, lots of value can be ...
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NetScaler 10: Keep-Alive value add to the TCP stack with Profiles
TCP profiles have been really helpful and handy to use for various use cases and deployment scenarios. Couple weeks back we had discussed TCP profiles and the last blog (http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/04/26/netscaler-10-tune-tcp-stack-for-wireless-use-cases-with-westwood/) covered the Westwood enhancement for Wireless networks. Latest NetScaler 10 GA build adds new Keep-Alive feature on TCP stack and enables NetScaler to probe the TCP connections from NetScaler end. Following snapshot shows the various ...
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NetScaler 10: Adds new Value to the HTTP Profiles
In the last blog (http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/07/04/playing-with-netscaler-http-stack/ ) we saw how you can play around with HTTP stack on NetScaler and tweak it with respect to your Application deployment. HTTP Profiles are the key to define the behavior and control the logic with respect to HTTP parsing and processing through NetScaler. NetScaler 10 adds further value to HTTP profiles and makes them even more important to use in ...
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Playing with NetScaler HTTP Stack
HTTP as a protocol has captured our Web and immaterial of what we do online, we use it under the hood all the time. NetScaler was initially developed to be a pure HTTP proxy and thus core of the strength and value has been to handle HTTP flows well in varying scenarios. The focus is to ensure that we always optimize and accelerate the experience ...