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Citrix NetScaler VPX is a Web application delivery appliance that makes applications five times better by accelerating performance, ensuring that applications are always available and protected, and substantially lowering costs. Citrix NetScaler application delivery products are easily selected by determining the edition providing functional needs and the appropriate hardware platform to fulfill performance needs.

The NetScaler VPX product family ensures that organizations can obtain a NetScaler application delivery solution for practically any scenario that arises. Smaller shops can now obtain an enterprise-class application delivery controller at an attractive price point. Furthermore, organizations of all types can employ NetScaler VPX not merely to address but, instead, to fully embrace the ongoing evolution of Web applications, the infrastructure used to support them and the ways in which they are sourced. In this regard, NetScaler VPX enables IT departments to:

• Optimize Web application delivery infrastructure, by separating high-volume shared network services from processor-intensive, application-specific services.
• Improve operational efficiency, by facilitating and potentially even fully automating the process of provisioning a customized set of delivery services required to support new instances of Web applications (which themselves, may be dynamically provisioned).
• Automatically respond to periods of high demand by dynamically provisioning more capacity for an existing Web application and its related delivery services or, conversely, de-provisioning excess capacity when it’s no longer needed.
• Migrate a Web application along with its related delivery services from one set of resources to another, including to a completely separate datacenter if appropriate, for example, when doing so would help optimize resource utilization or otherwise reduce operating expenses.
• Account for demand that exceeds the resources available at a given site by automatically spinning-up additional instances of a Web application and its related delivery services in a second data center, or at a cloud service provider’s facility.
• Efficiently implement several tiers of application delivery functionality to support applications that are highly decomposed or have massive scalability requirements.

The bottom line is that NetScaler VPX extends the NetScaler product family, providing a cost effective and highly adaptable means to implement advanced application delivery services and thereby improve the availability, performance, security and TCO of an organization’s business-critical Web applications. Itself a virtualized solution, NetScaler VPX supports the full spectrum of Web application infrastructures and deployment techniques, ranging from conventional designs involving dedicated physical hardware to the highly dynamic, highly virtualized approaches that have more recently emerged, along with the many possible permutations and combinations in between.

SoftLayer deploys NetScaler VPX on dedicated hardware for each and every customer to provide complete control over the network and computing infrastructure.

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