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  1. Introducing NetScaler Cloud Gateway and Cloud Bridge

    By Sunil Potti · Published on 11 months ago · No Comments

    iPads. Xooms. PlayBooks. ChromeBooks. (And more.)DropBox. SalesForce. Google Apps. CloudFiles. (And more.)There's so much IT going on today, with so much choice being exercised by users and departments - the enterprise datacenter walls are bursting. And so are the quotas, security policies, and service level agreements that IT organizations have enforced, victims of opportunity and choice.Some IT organizations have fought to assert control by reinforcing ...

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  2. Introducing AppFlow – NetFlow for Apps

    By Sunil Potti · Published on 1 year ago · 1 Comment

    Actionable Intelligence is what many claim to be the core reason to getting Bin Laden. Essentially, immediate and accurate data that helps deal with a situation at hand with a high probability of success.In the IT industry, specifically around applications, and now cloud services, this continues to be an elusive target. This was also the case some decades ago in the network world as ...

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  3. ADCs – evolve or die

    By Sunil Potti · Published on 1 year ago · 1 Comment

    Remember when, two or three years ago, Gartner declared the death of load balancers? They said it was now all about the apps, and that it was time to focus on application delivery, the performance, availability, and security of web applications. This meant not just load balancing, but SSL offloading, encryption acceleration, global site load balancing, application firewalling and more.Two or three years ...

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  4. ADCs – from the web and app tier to the data tier

    By Sunil Potti · Published on 1 year ago · 1 Comment

    It's been a core Citrix theme for years that "it's all about the apps"... But what are the apps all about? Data. And from that data, information that can drive both the transactional and strategic life of the business.BigData and not so big data As commerce – both business-to-consumer and business-to-business - has moved to the Web, its transactions have driven dramatic growth in the structured ...

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  5. NetScaler VPX as a Native Windows service – integrated with Hyper-V and Systems Center

    By Sunil Potti · Published on 2 years ago · 7 Comments

    Bringing Internet Class Security and Availability to Flexible, Virtualized Mainstream Microsoft ApplicationsMicrosoft is a premier provider of business collaboration tools. Their 2010 editions of Exchange Server and SharePoint are the latest incarnations of their enterprise productivity solutions. Yet, Microsoft is not standing pat. They created an integrated and fully virtualized delivery stack for these and many other applications with their Hyper-V hypervisor offering. They then went ...

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  6. Introducing Citrix Cloud Solutions. Charting a Pragmatic Path Forward

    By Sunil Potti · Published on 2 years ago · 2 Comments

    Today at Citrix Synergy, Citrix is introducing Citrix Cloud Solutions - a new way of using the cloud to deliver practical business services to enterprises of all sizes. And we've joined with over 460 cloud provider partners in mapping out a common sense but sustainable path forward. Carpathia, CSC, Terremark, NGenX, Softlayer are some of the key providers delivering many of the Citrix Cloud Solutions today.  Workload-Centric ...

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  7. Countering The Race-To-The-Bottom

    By Sunil Potti · Published on 2 years ago · No Comments

    Cloud Countdown C minus 8 As we lay out our thoughts about the cloud on the road to our launch next week at Citrix Synergy, we will discuss the needs of enterprises: the capabilities and attributes they are looking for, the applications they choose to run (and not to run) in the cloud, how the internal and external clouds fit together. But today, let's take a look ...

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  8. Knowing what you don’t know.

    By Sunil Potti · Published on 2 years ago · No Comments

    One of the things I respect in a person, or a group of a people or a company is whether "they know what they don't know". Too often we run into folks, well meaning or otherwise, that simply "don't know what they don't know". It is untenable to trust such folks and their judgement on all things related. The recent state of the Cloud market ...

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  9. Running with One Shoe

    By Sunil Potti · Published on 2 years ago · 4 Comments

    Running with One Shoe Cloud technology isn't enough; we need to bring cloud economics as well to the enterpriseLast weekend was the first of three weekends on which an H1N1 flu shot day was held in Santa Clara, California. There was such an overwhelming demand for this shot that the net result was a massive shortage and long lines of residents eagerly awaiting shots for themselves ...

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