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Morgan Gerhart

  1. Networks built on clouds, which are built on networks

    By Morgan Gerhart · Published on 6 days ago · 1 Comment

    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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  2. NetScaler CloudConnectors – The Future is a Hybrid

    By Morgan Gerhart · Published on 6 months ago · No Comments

    “The industry is moving from the PC era to the cloud era” is a common expression heard in the halls of Citrix these days. Certain parts of the industry are moving much faster than others. And the part that is moving the fastest is the apps themselves. By this I don’t mean “apps are moving to cloud datacenters.” Well, actually many of them are running ...

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  3. Connect to the CDN

    By Morgan Gerhart · Published on 11 months ago · No Comments

    Today at the O'Reilly Velocity conference, Citrix announced it has made a strategic investment in Cotendo. Cotendo is a fairly recent (2009) entrant in the content delivery network (CDN) marketplace, focusing specifically on providing a set of advanced services for accelerating and optimizing the highly dynamic, highly customized and highly personalized mobile and web applications that increasingly dominate the application landscape.Today application delivery controllers (ADCs) ...

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  4. Keep What’s Yours Yours. Make What’s Theirs Yours Too.

    By Morgan Gerhart · Published on 11 months ago · 1 Comment

    We've all heard the expression "what's mine is mine, what's yours is mine." Maybe we've said it. Maybe we've had it said to us. My boss says it all the time, usually referring to my time <grin>.Anyway, it's generally not considered a very positive expression, bringing back memories of school yard bullying, "might makes right" and what not.However, if you think about it, that's what ...

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  5. Service Delivery – The New Front Door to the New Datacenter

    By Morgan Gerhart · Published on 1 year ago · No Comments

    The other day, Sunil Potti blogged about how two forces, consumerization and the rise of the cloud, were forcing IT to change not only how it does things, but what it fundamentally does. And what its doing is evolving from application delivery to service delivery.At Your Service Before discussing service delivery, we should define what we mean by "service". If you are already using cloud ...

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  6. Since We’re Part of the Problem, We Figure’d we’d be Part of the Solution

    By Morgan Gerhart · Published on 1 year ago · 2 Comments

    Here at CTIA, Sandvine announced it is using Citrix NetScaler as part of a larger solution to help mobile operators optimize their mobile packet core infrastructure. The mobile packet core is, to a large extent, the heart of a mobile operator's network. And this part of the network is under tremendous stress these days, given the explosion of "apps" and the amount of data traffic ...

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  7. App-time vs. Network-time

    By Morgan Gerhart · Published on 1 year ago · No Comments

    How often is the network rev'ed? How often are the apps that run on it rev'ed? What's the ratio between the two? 1:3? 1:5? 1:10?The exact answers depend upon a lot of things, of course.The most fundamental may be the definition of the network itself, which is a lot grayer than it used to be. Is a virtual switch running w/in a hypervisor part ...

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  8. NetScaler Goes Virtual

    By Morgan Gerhart · Published on 3 years ago · 4 Comments

    Even since we acquired XenSource, we've been asked "will Citrix make NetScaler available as a virtual appliance?" Actually, folks familiar with NetScaler we're asking for a "software version" of NetScaler long before that. But with the XenSource acquisition, the question volume definitely ratcheted up. Well, if you're reading this, then most likely you know the answer to that question is a most definite "yes."Today, during ...

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  9. NetScaler 9 is here

    By Morgan Gerhart · Published on 3 years ago · 9 Comments

    NetScaler 9 is officially here. Well, actually, it's officially announced. It won't be officially available to download from mycitrix.com until November 27th. Yes, I know that's Thanksgiving. However, Citrix is a global company, and what better way to prove it than to post the NetScaler 9 code on a major US holiday? And, there is a chance that it might show up a day or two ...

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