Citrix Partnerships with Industry Leaders

Palo Alto Networks has pioneered the next generation of network security with its innovative platform that allows you to secure your network and safely enable the increasingly complex and rapidly growing number of applications running on your networks. Their next-generation firewall offers you the ability to identify, control, and safely enable applications while at the same time inspecting all content for all threats all the time. Coupled with Citrix TriScale technology, Palo Alto Networks delivers the most secure, most advanced cloud era network for the enterprise data center.

Organizations rely on Microsoft® for a broad array of business applications, from inventory and customer relations to collaborative work tools. NetScaler has been validated to enhance the user experience with these applications, whether they are accessed locally or across the globe. NetScaler provides compression, caching, load balancing and SSL acceleration to improve SharePoint response times by over 80 percent. With a 150 fold reduction in client to server connections, datacenter expenses are dramatically reduced.

NetScaler is built on Intel® Xeon® platforms and provides state-of-the-art web application acceleration, numerous network optimizations, and robust application security in a single, tightly integrated appliance. By leveraging Intel® Xeon® processors, NetScaler ensures that networks and bandwidth are fully optimized and with the best TCO, availability, and performance in the industry—improving performance up to 15 times.

NetScaler dramatically improves the performance of all Oracle applications, particularly when they are accessed via low-speed dial-up or wireless links, or high-latency networks such as satellite links. Independent tests demonstrate that Citrix solutions reduce network delays for Oracle users up to 80 percent. In addition, NetScaler leading http compression, data caching, and TCP optimization can improve response of Oracle applications by up to five times.

Customers worldwide count on SAP® products to reduce costs, improve business performance and respond faster to rapidly changing business needs. NetScaler has been proven to reduce network wait times for SAP® users by up to 99 percent and improve application delivery speed by up to five times. In addition, NetScaler helps companies maximize their SAP® server resources to dramatically reduce operational expense.

The integration of NetScaler VPX with HP E-series switches enables an IT buyer to converge two core data center capabilities, LAN switching and load balancing, into a single device. This consolidation not only reduces the number of discrete devices in the network, but also lowers operational costs and improves the performance of web application by up to 5 times for all users. The combination of these two solutions provide high-performance data center switching with advanced load balancing and comprehensive application security.

RSA Adaptive Authentication is a comprehensive risk-based authentication and fraud detection platform that balances security, usability and cost. Adaptive Authentication monitors and authenticates user activities based on risk levels, institutional policies and customer segmentation. This solution protects users accessing web sites and portals, SSL VPN and WAM applications. Citrix and RSA  partner to integrate Adaptive Authentication methods with NetScaler AAA and Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition (SSLVPN) systems to protect portals, applications and networks.

Cenzic provides software and SaaS products to protect web sites against malicious attacks. Unlike network security and SSL solutions, Cenzic tests for security defects at the Web application level where over 75 percent of attacks occur. Cenzic's Hailstorm and ClickToSecure products provide dynamic, black box testing of web sites to generate vulnerability information. Citrix has partnered with Cenzic to simplify importation of scan results into Citrix NetScaler AppFirewall and provide rule configurations to secure web applications.

Venafi provides enterprise certificate and key management (ECKM) solutions, which automate the provisioning, discovery, monitoring and management of encryption assets across heterogeneous environments. Products include three editions of Venafi Encryption Director: Monitoring, Enrollment and Provisioning, which reduce the unquantifiable and unmanaged risks of encryption deployments for improved security and availability. Venafi works intricately with the SSL offloading, Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition (SSL VPN) and AppFirewall features integrated in NetScaler.