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EMA concludes that Citrix NetScaler enjoys higher levels of satisfaction by IT professionals across the broadest range of measures when compared against both F5 Networks and Cisco Systems.

Learn how NetScaler’s integrated Access Gateway, Enterprise Edition SSL VPN, load balancing and global server load balancing features provide scalable secure access, high-availability and disaster recovery/business continuity for XenApp.

This paper discusses ways to maximize E-Learning Value and Optimize Application Delivery for WebCT Deployment with Citrix NetScaler platform.

Deployment guide for installing NetScaler with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Detailed deployment guide of how to configure Microsoft SharePoint with Citrix NetScaler. The paper describes how to optimize the performance of SharePoint in NetScaler environments.

Deployment Guide showing how to configure NetScaler with Microsoft Office Communication Server for maximum performance.

Solution Brief on NetScaler for XenApp. Includes integrated Web Interface Service.

This implementation will replace the dedicated Access Gateway device with a fully integrated NetScaler solution comprising of the Access Gateway SSL-VPN, Server Load Balancing and Global Server Load Balancing. This implementation guide will walk through the setup and configuration of the environment.

Citrix NetScaler DataStream(TM) provides native SQL support enabling greater scalability, availability and security for Oracle MySQL.

Citrix NetScaler DataStream(TM) provides native support for Microsoft TDS (tabular data stream)enabling greater scalability, availability and security for Microsoft SQL Server.

This paper presents four steps to integrated application delivery for Microsoft applications and desktop virtualization using NetScaler VPX for Hyper-V. This approach ultimately leads to a better user experience, a simpler IT environment and lower operations costs.

Learn how to integrate Adaptive Authentication with NetScaler. The guide explains how to install the Adaptive Authentication Integration Adapter and how to configure NetScaler for the integration.

Solution guide describing how NetScaler optimizes the Oracle E-Business Suite application.

NetScaler solution guide for SAP Business Suite application

Solution Guide describing how Citrix NetScaler optimizes the Microsoft Exchange 2010 application.

Solution Guide describing how NetScaler optimizes the Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

Solution Guide describing how NetScaler optimizes the Microsoft Lync application.

Detailed deployment guide describing how to install and configure the NetScaler Application Template for Oracle E-Business Suite.

This deployment Guide shows how to provide high-availability, disaster recovery and business continuity to a XenDesktop environment.

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

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), produced and governed by the major credit card companies, comprises directives to reduce fraud. Citrix Application Firewall™, along with other Citrix solutions, provide compliance solutions for PCI-DSS and overall protection of critical Web applications.

Cloud computing is a compelling way to deliver web-based and non-web-based applications that better utilize the physical infrastructure, while lowering costs by moving from silos of expensive customized servers to racks of cost-effective ones.

Citrix NetScaler VPX provides the complete NetScaler Web application load balancing, acceleration, security and offload feature-set in a simple, easy to install virtual appliance.

Product Overview and specifications for the Citrix NetScaler Application Firewall.

Citrix NetScaler hardware and feature summary guide

Overview brochure of Citrix NetScaler application delivery solution.

Citrix NetScaler VPX datasheet for Microsoft Hyper-V deployments.

Feature and benefit summary of Splunk application performance monitoring solution for Citrix NetScaler with AppFlow.

Learn how SolarWinds AppFlow Traffic Analyzer and Citrix NetScaler can help you gain end-to-end visibility and real-time business and operational intelligence from your apps.

Citrix Cloud Bridge sits at the back door of the corporate datacenter, providing access to the infinite capacity of the cloud. By aggregating the addressability and manageability of the on-premise and cloud provider networks into a Service Delivery Network (SDN) fabric, CloudBridge makes cloud-hosted applications appear to administrators, tools and even the applications themselves as though they are running on the enterprise network.

NetScaler® Command Center is a centralized management and monitoring solution for the Citrix NetScaler ADC, Branch Repeater, Access Gateway, Cloud Bridge, Application Firewall and Citrix XenServer families of application delivery solutions.

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Citrix Appliance Maintenance and License Agreement

Citrix XenApp™ delivers key business applications. NetScaler provides peace-of-mind by providing XenApp infrastructure with secure remote access and continuous application availability in a single, integrated solution. Even during a data center outage, you users have consistent, secure access to XenApp delivered applications.

Taking Web application delivery performance to new levels.

The new NetScaler ultra high-end MPX models utilize Intel Xeon 5600 series processors. This technology note reviews the architecture and how these models provide scalable capacity to 50Gbps while simultaneously ensuring full feature set functionality.

The explosion of data is placing very high demands on database infrastructure. Citrix NetScaler DataStream technology provides native SQL intelligence for Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL enabling enterprises to optimally and cost-effectively deliver scalability, high-availability and security.

This technology note describes how clustering works, and how TriScale expands NetScaler capacity.

Citrix Cloud Solution for Compliance is an on-demand service for protecting sensitive data and meeting compliance requirements, while providing unparalleled control over sensitive data stored in both enterprise datacenters and public clouds. It reduces compliance costs, while bringing proven expertise to industry-specific compliance mandates across a variety of businesses.

Citrix Cloud Solution for On-Boarding enables seamless migration of applications and workloads into cloud infrastructures, leveraging a robust virtual platform, virtual machine migration, open virtualization format (OVF) and other innovative cloud technologies. It dramatically reduces the complexity of migration and the need to re-architect the application and network stack.

Citrix Cloud Solution for Disaster Recovery (DR) helps to prevent unexpected interruptions to applications and data, which can result in significant business loss. By leveraging virtualization, storage, data protection and replication, and orchestration services to support cloud-based delivery of DR services. It provides a compelling alternative to dedicated 'hot-site' standby facilities.

Citrix Cloud Solution for Development and Test incorporates virtualization and on-demand application provisioning to help organizations cut both the time and budget required to set-up and allocate new infrastructure for test and development workloads in the cloud.

Deployment Guide for creating NetScaler for AWS tech preview instances within AWS environments

Citrix and BlueCat enable you to quickly and easily build a self-service private cloud. The integration of BlueCat solutions with Citrix NetScaler ensures that your private cloud can meet enterprise needs for always-on application access, performance and hyper-scalability without requiring additional management costs or data center space.

By integrating an extensive set of network and application-layer protection mechanisms, advanced access and action control capabilities, deep visibility for rapid trouble shooting and a wealth of additional service delivery features, NetScaler not only preserves the benefits promised by virtual desktops, it maximizes them.

With Microsoft’s announcement that the Threat Management Gateway family of products are end-of-sale, Citrix recommends the use of NetScaler application delivery controllers as a replacement. NetScaler provides all the feature and benefits of TMG plus much more. NetScaler is also deployed in a similar manner within the network for ease-of-installation.

Citrix NetScaler has been specifically designed to deliver the exceptional experience demanded by today’s mobile workforce. It includes additional, innovative capabilities that produce industry leading performance, availability and security for today’s mobile enterprise.

Citrix NetScaler and F5 Networks VIPRION solutions are leading application delivery controllers (ADCs) that provide advanced layer 4-7 traffic management and load balancing. Each solution can offload computationally expensive SSL processing responsibilities from web and application servers to speed the delivery of SSL-protected applications. Yet these ADCs are far from equal.

The end-to-end Citrix mobility solution simplifies integration and gives IT unified control of the mobile and network infrastructure with robust security and scalable network. Users are empowered with the full mobility their work requires as well as the ability to use the device of their choice, while IT gains a complete, robust platform to address the full range of mobile business requirements—simply and securely.

This paper examines the potential use cases for NetScaler and CloudBridge on AWS, including the role of Citrix CloudBridge, provides a primer on AWS networking architecture and delivers prescriptive guidance on how to account for deploying NetScaler on AWS given the AWS network design.

NetScaler helps ensure that your organization fully benefits from its deployment of desktop virtualization, maximizing your business advantage by integrating an extensive set of capabilities for optimizing, securing and ensuring the delivery of virtual desktops.

Combining an extensive portfolio of application, network, and user—layer security capabilities with a rich ecosystem of interoperable partner products, NetScaler enables today’s enterprises to leverage their existing infrastructure to establish and extend upon a robust, cost-effective foundation for next-generation datacenter security.

This white paper describes how the next generation of the NetScaler SDX platform unifies L4-7 services into an application control plane, and how this control plane can be used to make emerging SDN technologies app-aware.

Today's web applications require more than simple load balancing. This white paper describes the 8 must-have features of a more comprehensive application delivery solution—a solution that addresses not just scalability and availability of the application environment, but application performance, security and adaptability as well.

The infrastructure that delivers Web-based content and applications is known to be vulnerable to attack. Analysts estimate that 75 percent of all internet attacks target the web infrastructure. The FBI reported in 2005 a 90 percent increase in attacks against the web infrastucture. Download this white paper to learn about the vulnerabilities, the attacks, and the proper defenses against those attacks.

Network firewalls and intrusion prevention systems (IPSs) are integral parts of an enterprise security strategy, but they can’t adequately protect the inherently vulnerable Web applications that companies now rely on to extend their businesses to partners, suppliers and customers. Download this paper to learn how Citrix Application Firewall complements and extends the protection provided by network firewalls.

The complexity of Web applications, potential severity of security breaches, and mounting sophistication of attacks requires additional functionality beyond the capability of network-based security products. The emergence of Web application firewall technology provides a comprehensive and focused solution to help increase the security of Web-based services and protect valuable information assets.

Citrix NetScaler VPX—a virtual appliance providing the same Web application delivery features as Citrix NetScaler appliances—lets IT organizations harness all the power and flexibility of a dynamic, virtualized datacenter to not only deliver Web applications, but also provide the advanced load balancing, acceleration, security, availability and offload services essential to controlling costs and optimizing resource utilization and performance.

With a powerful set of capabilities for offloading datacenter infrastructure, Citrix NetScaler provides a quick, low-cost way for organizations to cut their web server count by 50 to 60 percent or more. Significant cost savings are in turn accrued from a corresponding reduction in data center requirements for space, cooling, power and personnel.

The availability of NetScaler as a virtual appliance enables organizations to broadly deploy the same application delivery infrastructure used in the production network into application development and test labs. This white paper documents how to use Citrix Command Center to successfully capture production configurations, easily move these configurations into development labs running NetScaler VPX, and then promote the configurations into test and ultimately back to production environments.

An ideal solution for web application security,with support for both HTML and XML based applications.

A superior solution to provide protection from SYN flood attacks, while continuing to service legitimate traffic and enhance user experience.

Cloud computing is introducing new demands on application delivery controllers or load balancers. Cloud-scale performance, scalability, elasticity and multi-tenancy are some of the requirements that load balancers need to provide to support the migration to cloud computing environments. Learn how NetScaler helps enterprises achieve cloud computing benefits.

White paper describing the growing risk to application security, their requirements, and the NetScaler application firewall solution.

With the Internet running out of available IP address space it is incumbent upon organizations to translate to IPv6. This white paper outlines a three step process in which NetScaler can ease this transition.

Consumeriztion and cloud computing are changing IT's responsibility from "buying and building" apps and infrastructure to "aggregating and orchestrating" a variety of cloud-based services. This whitepaper discusses how this will impact application delivery infrastructure, and the new functionality required to successfully deliver services from the cloud.

Network and datacenter virtualization are driving consolidation across the entire IT infrastructure. However, consolidation can't come at the expense of performance or SLA commitments. This paper discusses how NetScaler physical and virtual appliances enable IT organizations to virtualize and consolidate without compromise.

A new generation of performance monitoring tools is needed to achieve application visibility in this new cloud computing era.

This technical white paper provides a simple guide on how to build a virtualization architecture to address IT requirements for productivity and performance, collaboration and support, security and cost efficiency.

This technical guide outlines how to provide users with an "always on" XenDesktop environment that delivers a secure, high-performance experience. NetScaler works seamlessly with XenDesktop to make sure you get the most out of your virtual desktop investment.

With its new TriScale Technology, Citrix is enabling a genuine revolution for enterprise cloud networks by providing an unrivaled set of capabilities that smartly scale application and service delivery infrastructures, affordably and with no additional complexity.

Relied upon to power the world’s largest enterprise datacenters and cloud networks, Citrix NetScaler beats F5 in making enterprise networks cloud ready.

NetScaler can be easily and cost-effectively deployed as a front-end to today’s virtual desktop solutions. NetScaler provides a robust set of network-layer security, application-layer security and advanced access and data control capabilities to extend the benefits organizations have come to expect when embracing desktop virtualization. More than just a security solution, NetScaler helps substantially improve the availability, performance and scalability of virtual desktops.

Citrix TriScale Technology provides a superior alternative to the traditional approach to achieving high availability for one of the most strategic datacenter components, the application delivery controller. Revolutionary NetScaler clustering capability eliminates idle resources, boosts reliability and scalability.