Solution Brief

Delivering an optimal application experience across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures

Work and grow the way you want to, with application delivery and security from Citrix and Cloud that’s simple, flexible, and secure Citrix App Delivery and Security with Google Cloud Platform 2

Application performance and • Reduce risk by securing applications, APIs, delivery have changed users, and networks to drive consistency and resiliency across an expanding Here’s how your network can keep pace attack service.

Cloud changed the fundamentals of how your IT • Use packet-based path selection to steer team delivers applications and manages their traffic based on application requirements and performance. Rather than hosting applications real-time network conditions for branch and solely on-premises, many enterprises now remote sites. choose a hybrid cloud strategy where applications reside both on-premises and in Gain all of these advantages and more when you public cloud. By leveraging public cloud, run your apps on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) enterprises can take full advantage of modern with Citrix. application architectures that use microservices and containers to rapidly deploy and scale their applications. With this increased agility comes 90 percent of business innovation faster innovation and time to market. will depend on public cloud services by 2022.¹ Today, IT needs modern application delivery and security solutions that:

• Deliver an unmatched application experience 124 SaaS applications are in use for your users with the best performance and in an enterprise, on average.¹ flexibility for SaaS, cloud, and virtual apps.

• Provide enhanced visibility and control for IT, while simplifying observability 92 percent of reported and troubleshooting. vulnerabilities are in applications, not networks.¹ • Gain operational consistency across your on-premises and cloud environments.

“We can help customers with their cloud transformations by enabling them to access and run the apps their businesses depend on anywhere— simply, flexibly and securely.”

– Rob Enslin

President Global Customer Operations, Google Cloud Citrix App Delivery and Security with Google Cloud Platform 3

Citrix App Delivery and Security: Meeting employee expectations for an optimal app experience

Your organization’s IT needs are changing all the delivery controller and advanced WAN, these time. Citrix App Delivery and Security solutions solutions help companies succeed by ensuring an help you provide a great experience, regardless of optimal experience for their application users. app type and underlying infrastructure. Citrix offers three solutions for Google Cloud: Citrix Application Together with Google Cloud, Citrix helps you Delivery Controller (ADC), Citrix Application improve the security of application access as well Delivery Management, and Citrix SD-WAN. as network performance and reliability. Your users can take control of their workday and do their Citrix App Delivery and Security solutions are best work with simple access and high-quality designed to ensure that business-critical application performance optimization applications perform well and remain secure. Centered around a comprehensive application

Citrix App Delivery and Security solutions provide

Traffic management and load balancing Highly available and secure branch for microservices as well as web apps office connectivity in GCP Virtual that use a 3-tier architecture. Private Clouds.

Priority for critical application traffic Selective packet replication over with dual-ended quality of service (QoS) multiple links to maintain high and last-mile awareness. performance for audio and other critical traffic.

Sub-second link failover that helps to sustain network resiliency. Citrix App Delivery and Security with Google Cloud Platform 4

Citrix ADC: Flexible, scalable application delivery and load balancing that helps you gain an edge

Customer experience has become Cloud-native experts can choose the service synonymous with application experience, mesh architecture to take advantage of and Citrix Application Delivery Controller advanced traffic steering, inter-container (ADC) enables you to provide a high-quality security, advanced resiliency, deeper user experience—regardless of the underlying observability, and analytics. infrastructure and application type and no matter where your customers are located or Integrated Layer 3 to Layer 7 security in what devices they are using. Citrix ADC protects both monolithic and microservices-based applications. Features like Citrix also simplifies networking management a web application firewall, bot management, tasks for IT. To quickly deploy production-ready distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, apps, Citrix ADC integrates with cloud-managed support for transport-layer security (TLS) and Kubernetes and Cloud Native Computing secure sockets layer (SSL), content inspection, Foundation open-source tools. and rate limiting ensure applications and APIs stay safe and secure. Citrix offers architecture choices for cloud-native novices and experts alike, Additionally, the unique Citrix pooled-capacity helping IT teams transition to cloud-native licensing method allows IT to better use capacity apps at their own pace. Cloud-native novices and easily move application workloads among can start with a simple ingress architecture, cloud deployments. achieving the quickest route to production for both the application and network teams. Citrix App Delivery and Security with Google Cloud Platform 5

Citrix Application and Desktops, this solution integrates with Citrix Delivery Management: high-definition experience (HDX™) technology and the Independent Computing Architecture (ICA™) A single platform for managing protocol to enable crystal-clear voice, multimedia, apps, wherever they live and video. These capabilities help employees take control of their workday and do work that is Citrix Application Delivery Management gives purposeful, creative, and innovative. you a holistic view of your application delivery across your hybrid cloud environment, enabling Deployed as a virtual appliance, the Citrix SD-WAN automation, orchestration, management, and service enables exceptional application performance analytics for application delivery. With a single with features such as deep packet inspection, QoS, pane of glass, IT gains insights into application and link bonding. The solution helps IT quickly health and performance, security postures, and provision high-availability connections to a Google web transactions. Cloud Platform Virtual Private Cloud and manage the entire network using the Citrix orchestration service. Our service graph helps you visualize your microservices maps while providing insights Developed by the Citrix and Google about how they perform, with data on Cloud Alliance throughput, saturation, errors, and latency for each microservice. The intuitive user Citrix and Google Cloud have benefited from a interface also gives you a health score for each deep, integrated engineering partnership since microservice and detects anomalies to help 2011. The alliance offers solutions that combine you proactively identify potential problems. a secure digital workspace, application delivery and security, productivity apps, and cloud-ready Citrix SD-WAN: devices—all optimized to work with Google Cloud An efficient on-ramp to Google Cloud Platform. Citrix solutions for Google Cloud help companies achieve the future of experience-driven Use the Citrix “always-on SD-WAN” to provide the application performance and delivery in a hybrid best possible user experience for all applications, cloud environment today. including Google Workspace, on Google Cloud. For example, when delivering Citrix Virtual Apps

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¹Citrix ADC for Hybrid Multi-Cloud - Customer Overview Presentation

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