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SoftLayer™ Introduces Citrix© NetScaler© VPX
New Solution Accelerates Web Applications by Five Times
DALLAS-September 29, 2009 – SoftLayer Technologies™
has added Citrix® NetScaler® VPX to its service offering. The virtual Web application
delivery appliance makes applications five times better by accelerating performance
and ensuring that applications are always available and protected through integrated
firewalls, while also substantially lowering IT costs. SoftLayer will deploy Citrix
NetScaler VPX on dedicated hardware for each and every customer to provide complete
control over the network and computing infrastructure.
“We’re excited that SoftLayer has chosen Citrix Netscaler VPX as its enterprise-class
Web application delivery solution,” said Klaus Oestermann, Vice President and General
Manager, NetScaler Product Group, Citrix. “Citrix NetScaler VPX will help SoftLayer
customers optimize application performance and delivery, allowing users to converge
virtualization and networking.”
Citrix NetScaler VPX provides a cost-effective and highly adaptable means to implement
advanced application delivery services. It combines a host of features, including
load balancing, application acceleration, firewalls, and other security features
to improve the availability, performance, protection, and total cost of operations
of an organization’s business-critical Web applications. Itself a virtualized solution,
Citrix NetScaler VPX supports the full spectrum of Web application infrastructures
and deployment techniques—from conventional dedicated physical hardware designs
to emerging virtualized approaches, along with the many possible permutations in
between.
Citrix NetScaler VPX offers IT departments the following benefits:
- Reduce server costs by 60 percent
- Accelerate Web applications by five times
- Optimize Web application delivery infrastructure
- Improve operational efficiency and security through integrated firewalls
- Automatically respond to periods of high demand by dynamically provisioning more capacity for an existing Web application
- Migrate a Web application from one set of resources to another
- 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
“We consistently provide our customers with the latest and most efficient solutions,”
said Nathan Day, Chief Technology Officer, SoftLayer. “Citrix NetScaler VPX is yet
another option that customers can leverage to build a fast, responsive, and secure
IT environment.”
About SoftLayer Technologies
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, SoftLayer is a best-in-class, infrastructure-as-a-service provider with data centers in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, DC, and network Points of Presence across the US. SoftLayer integrates and automates all IT elements, allowing customers to create cloud, dedicated, or seamless hybrid computing environments managed through a single interface. Enterprises of any size can have complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management in an on-demand IT solution. For more information, please visit www.softlayer.com or call 866.398.7638.
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