Citrix Systems, a provider of virtual computing offerings, has launched new NetScaler SDX, a new virtualised networking platform designed from the ground up to serve as the "front door" for virtual data centres and clouds.
The new NetScaler SDX platform allows customers to run numerous virtualised NetScaler instances on a single purpose-built physical appliance with full multi-service, multi-tenant support.
The new architecture of the offering helps customers move from traditional application delivery to "service delivery" required by the adoption of cloud computing, and growing user demand for new services delivered to a wide range of consumer devices, said the company.
In addition, the NetScaler SDX platform creates a ‘service delivery fabric’ that ensures all these apps and services are delivered with the performance, security and reliability, regardless of whether they are running in the local data centre, or in an external cloud.
The feature allows IT teams to offer networking services that make off-premise clouds behave as a natural extension of the enterprise network, while providing broader and deeper control over how enterprise, consumer and cloud-based services impact the network, said the company.
The new offering provides new platform that uses advanced hardware and software virtualisation to run multiple "virtual NetScaler instances" on a single hardware appliance; provides full network, CPU, memory and SSL acceleration isolation for each virtual NetScaler instance; and incorporates SR-IOV (single root I/O virtualisation) capabilities from Intel.
