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Citrix Systems has announced the general availability of the Citrix NetScaler VPX virtual appliance and unveiled a new Citrix Ready Open Networking Program to support it. The new program establishes a powerful partner ecosystem to support Citrix NetScaler VPX, the industry's only application delivery and load balancing solution available as a virtual appliance. With the introduction of the Open Networking Program, Citrix is making it easier for ISVs, enterprise customers, and cloud infrastructure providers to create powerful virtual networking solutions they can integrate with a broad range of partner solutions already verified to work with NetScaler VPX.

"The availability of the NetScaler VPX virtual appliance will put complete web application delivery functionality within the reach of any organization adopting Oracle Applications," said Tom Herrmann, VP, global ISV management and programs at Oracle. "Through our Application Integration Architecture for Partners initiative, Citrix and Oracle have worked closely to validate and document how NetScaler appliances enhance the delivery of Oracle Applications. By making NetScaler available as a virtual appliance, Citrix is making it easy for Oracle Applications customers of all sizes to obtain these same benefits."

Open Networking Program
The Citrix Ready Open Networking Program establishes a broad partner ecosystem to support the deployment of virtualized NetScaler services into nearly any environment. By leveraging the program, Citrix customers can confidently build comprehensive application delivery infrastructures using NetScaler VPX and integrate with a multitude of partner solutions:

• Platform Partners - Provide a broad array of deployment options for NetScaler VPX software.
• Application Partners - Validate interoperability with NetScaler VPX and deliver turnkey solutions with tightly-integrated NetScaler load balancing and application delivery.
• Cloud and Hosting Providers - Offer on-demand application networking to customers in both shared and dedicated service models.
• Solution Partners - Complement NetScaler VPX functionality to provide holistic and comprehensive solutions, including cloud-based messaging security and flexible identity management products.

Charter members of the new Citrix Ready Open Networking Program partners include Ankeena, Apere, Arista, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Intel, Joyent, Oracle, SoftLayer, Trend Micro and Vyatta.

NetScaler VPX Virtual Appliance
Since its May 2009 debut as a publicly available tech preview release, NetScaler VPX has been downloaded and evaluated by thousands of enterprise customers and cloud infrastructure providers eager to bring needed flexibility and efficiency to their datacenters. Now available for general purchase, NetScaler VPX is poised to expand the market for advanced web application delivery technology.

NetScaler VPX makes it simple and cost effective for organizations of all sizes to deploy market-leading application delivery capabilities for every web application. By combining broad platform support, affordable licensing and gigabit performance, NetScaler VPX brings advanced application delivery technology to both common and emerging customer scenarios not addressed by appliance-only deployments:

• Making Shared Services Work in Cloud and Enterprise Datacenters - NetScaler VPX enables next generation multi-tenancy architectures, bringing application-specific and tenant-specific acceleration, security and traffic management close to the application in a flexible software tier. This complements NetScaler MPX hardware appliances at the data center edge that are handling large-scale services common to all tenants.
• On-demand Load Balancing and Application Delivery - For the first time, industry-leading application delivery and load balancing can be provisioned as an on-demand service by cloud and hosting providers seeking to enhance the elasticity and profitability of their offerings. Datacenter architectures are freed from the inherent rigidity of appliance-only solutions.
• Moving NetScaler Upstream in the Application Lifecycle - NetScaler VPX makes critical application optimization, security and management technology capabilities readily accessible to development teams so that application delivery can be "baked" into the application. Additionally, it addresses thorny configuration support and change management issues by allowing evaluation of application delivery policies in test and stage environments, before promoting into production environments

Free NetScaler VPX Express Edition

"The overwhelming customer response to our NetScaler VPX solution validates our strategy to expand the overall market for NetScaler technology by making it available as a virtual appliance," said Klaus Oestermann, VP and GM of the NetScaler Product Group, Citrix Systems. "The Open Networking Program is a powerful ecosystem around which customers can confidently build integrated, efficient application delivery infrastructures using leading technologies and products."

About Citrix Systems
Citrix Systems is a leading provider of virtualization, networking and software-as-a-service (SaaS) technologies for more than 230,000 organizations worldwide. Its Citrix Delivery Center, Citrix Cloud Center (C3) and Citrix Online Services product families radically simplify computing for millions of users, delivering applications as an on-demand service to any user, in any location on any device. Citrix customers include the world's largest Internet companies, 99% of Fortune Global 500 enterprises, and hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers worldwide. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies worldwide in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1989, annual revenue in 2008 was $1.6B.

SOURCE: Citrix Systems

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