Citrix Launches Citrix Ready Open Networking Program

Citrix Systems, Inc. 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 partner ecosystem to support Citrix NetScaler VPX, an application delivery and load balancing solution that is available as a virtual appliance.

"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 allowing for Oracle Applications customers of all sizes to obtain these same benefits."

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 said customers can build 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 NetScaler load balancing and application delivery.

- Cloud and Hosting Providers - Offer on-demand application networking to customers in both shared and dedicated service models.

"SoftLayer Technologies is proud to add the Citrix NetScaler VPX virtual appliance to our portfolio of cloud-based services," said Nathan Day, CTO and co-founder of SoftLayer. "With NetScaler VPX, SoftLayer can now provide our customers with the industry's best load balancing and application optimization as an on-demand, cloud-based service."

"Joyent is glad to offer NetScaler VPX virtual appliances on demand," said David Young, CEO and Founder of Joyent. "Joyent customers with applications running in the Joyent Public Cloud can now benefit from load balancing, application acceleration and security functionality of NetScaler."

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.

More Information:

http://www.citrix.com/ready/list/products?family=netscaler percent20VPX.

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