Safeguard Application Uptime and Ensure Consistent Performance
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Safeguard application uptime and ensure consistent performance How a software-first approach can streamline app delivery across your hybrid, multi, and AWS clouds. Contents Introduction 3 Delivery, performance, and availability 6 ADC in AWS Marketplace 8 Cloud adopters 10 Key benefits and features 12 Marketplace advantage 14 Conclusion 16 Citrix | Safeguard application uptime and ensure consistent performance 2 Expectations for application delivery are on the rise. In today’s highly complex, distributed, • Imbalanced distribution of workloads hybrid-multi-cloud and multi-device world, across workers/partners/contractors organizations are feeling the impacts to the scattered around the globe user experience, and potential risks and loss • Cloud sprawl brought on by of control for IT. Users expect the applications and content moving applications they rely on every day to between on-premises and the cloud function without error, and deliver the and between clouds information they need on demand, around the clock wherever they are. • Employees accessing applications from multiple endpoints Scaling your workloads to the cloud helps your organization remain agile and • Lack of centralized visibility, data-driven. But even as you gain management, and control of infrastructure on demand, cloud adoption dispersed applications and the changing hybrid and multi-cloud landscapes bring business challenges, • Inability to effectively troubleshoot including: application performance and security issues that come up, as well as enforce • The need to rapidly innovate and scale security and compliance policies, to meet customer demand e.g. SSL enforcement Citrix | Safeguard application uptime and ensure consistent performance 3 Reliability Server failures or site outages that can impact application availability Performance Decreased productivity and loss of revenue due to slow performing applications Security Compromised intellectual property and data theft Cloud Experience Lack of centralized control, monitoring, and management across hybrid and multi-clouds Costs Technical debt and application lifecycle management Citrix | Safeguard application uptime and ensure consistent performance 4 Without proper management of your • The landscape is changing and to stay applications’ performance (both on-premises competitive, organizations need to be and in the cloud as they scale) your users more agile, data-driven, and may experience: customer-focused. • Slow or subpar performance • New demands on app innovation, delivery, and services mean the modern IT • Lack of predictability framework must adapt to bridge the • Piecemeal delivery of information multiple legacy, on-premise, and custom applications and data stores upon which • Elevated security risks businesses continue to rely. In short, your users may be unproductive, • Diverse app hosting environments are frustrated, or worse, experience the new normal as organizations host break-downs in their own operations applications in their local data center, that are dependent on your applications. in the cloud, and in multi-cloud environments. Citrix ADC, formerly known as Citrix NetScaler, can deliver your applications • Applications need the benefit of a with the same security, monitoring, trusted application delivery solution management, governance, and performance for optimal performance, availability, no matter where they live—across all types and security. of networks, and at locations beyond the confines of the physical workplace—to keep your customers, and your business, protected. Citrix | Safeguard application uptime and ensure consistent performance 5 Optimal application delivery, performance, and availability. Application delivery controllers (ADCs) are environments, adapt to the networks devices placed between an organization’s and protocols that are in place for peak firewall and application/web servers to performance and availability, prevent cloud offload common tasks from the servers lock-in, and reduce risk for both users and themselves. ADCs offer functionality your business. including load balancing, SSL offloading, As the data center evolves towards a web application firewalling, and more to help software-defined model, orchestration of you improve the availability and performance supporting networking services is essential of your applications across your AWS and for deploying infrastructure on demand. on-premises environments. Citrix ADC in AWS Marketplace helps: Citrix ADC seamlessly integrates with AWS • Safeguard app delivery to all locations Marketplace offering an all-in-one, costeffective delivery controller that allows • Redirect users automatically and you to smoothly and securely transition seamlessly to a secondary cloud or workloads and applications easily to the data center during failover cloud while allowing IT to maintain control and provide optimized application delivery. • Maintain high availability of core applications and services Citrix ADC in AWS Marketplace provides flexible delivery services for traditional, • Enable organizations to use cloud containerized, and micro-services resources as a backup data center applications from your data center Find Citrix ADC in AWS Marketplace. or any cloud. It is designed to help your applications perform in optimized Citrix | Safeguard application uptime and ensure consistent performance 6 Take application performance and delivery to the next level. Citrix ADC is one of the easiest ways you can transform • Secure mission-critical applications from attacks and your infrastructure to a software-defined network, and lower server expenses by offloading computationally experience greater visibility, agility, control, and intensive tasks. performance. With AWS Marketplace, Citrix ADC allows • Unify L4-7 network services into an application your datacenter network to become an end-to-end control layer, and make L2-3 architectures service delivery fabric to optimize the delivery of all web completely app-driven applications, cloud-based services, virtual desktops, enterprise business apps, and mobile services. • Gain policy-based automation administered through a single console, for more efficiency, higher Citrix ADC provides load balancing and content performance, and lower OPEX costs switching, application offloading, attack protection, application firewalling, and more. With it you can: All these capabilities are combined into a powerful, software-driven virtual appliance for increased • Accelerate application performance productivity, with lower overall total cost of ownership • Enhance application availability with advanced than industry competitors. L4-7 load balancing, providing seamless failover Internet WAN Citrix | Safeguard application uptime and ensure consistent performance 7 How Citrix ADC in AWS Marketplace gives your organization effective support. On-premise datacenter Configurations Application centric Visibility & analytics Transitioning applications to hybrid cloud. DevOps-friendly ADC like ours can help Security, availability, and performance empower IT Operations teams and provide become difficult when your applications line of business (LOB) app developers with ADC, SD-WAN, VPN, SSO are in the cloud, on-premises, and sourced the visibility they need for developing and as SaaS or developed in the cloud. Citrix troubleshooting their applications. ADC in AWS Marketplace offers an Auto scaling. Ensuring optimized application application delivery solution that simplifies availability is critical for application application deployments in a hybrid cloud Citrix Application workloads in the AWS cloud. You also want delivery scenario. Citrix Application Delivery Delivery Management to minimize costs by deploying only as many Management, formerly known as NetScaler instances as necessary during any given Management and Analytics System (MAS) period-oftime. Citrix leverages the AWS New Generation, — a centralized network management, borderless datacenter Marketplace Auto 7 Safeguard Application analytics, and orchestration solution — Automated & centralized Uptime and Consistent Performance Scaling makes managing and transitioning service to automatically load balance the Application centric workloads simple while providing visibility traffic between servers and ensure that your Visibility & analytics into workload and ADC performance. applications always have the right amount of SDN & cloud orchestration Building a micro-services architecture. capacity to handle current traffic demands. Hybrid and multi-cloud Business agility requires you to transform It also provides zero touch configuration, your monolithic applications into better load and cost management, and containerized applications, ship code faster, smooth connection termination. and migrate from a single data center to a multi-cloud environment. A cloud-native, SDN control Citrix | Safeguard application uptime and ensure consistent performance 8 Production delivery scenarios. Front-end Management & Analytucs production applications with an ADC can provide L4-7 load balancing, extensive offloading, web optimization, and acceleration and security capabilities to enhance performance and reduce costs. Global Server Visibility & App Centric Lifecycle Central Management Load Balancing (GSLB) ensures availability Analytics Management across AWS cloud locations and on-premise data centers. Secure Branch Web Dev and test. Enterprises running production Routing / Gateway / SSO / Load Stateful SSl Remote WAF / Balancing / delivery on-premise but using AWS SD-WAN Firewall Visibility