Applications are squarely in the spotlight today, with the launch of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and the Nexus 000 solutions [
Citrix was in the application delivery business for the past two decades; it is what we are known for. Our customers deliver millions of applications - Windows, web, SaaS or Cloud - their employees and customers. We live with the layers to 4-7 applications, straddling the network level 1-3 layers.
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We have taken steps to bridge the worlds networks and applications. The purpose of our proposed collaboration with Cisco is to meet the needs of applications running on Cisco infrastructure. And if you think about it, the application delivery is what it is all about.
Our alliance has flourished in recent years. It two years ago, we started with apps - applications solutions and desktop virtualization with XenApp and XenDesktop on Cisco UCS. Our next step is to work closely with Cisco Data Center product teams in cloud networks. We worked on the integration and the integration of our leading NetScaler application delivery to controller market with Cisco Nexus 7000 and Nexus 1000V. With vpath integration, our joint customers can string virtual services through the virtual machines in the data center and Citrix NetScaler appliances are managed transparently as service blades in the Cisco Nexus infrastructure -. See below
What makes this special?
in short, this is another important step in our journey to make application-aware infrastructure . in a typical application deployment teams today, development and delivery no real ability to control the network, which is largely ignoring the unique needs of applications and unable to provide application services centered.
But now, with the work of our teams have together (and propose to continue), Cisco ACI architecture of tightly integrated application services can become sensitive applications. This application-centric approach is a basic factor of real agile flexible fluid data center and resource-wise ,.
Let us look in detail.
What?
There are two parts to the formula awareness app:
- A centralized control fabric and an automation framework capable of implementing policies juggling: This part of the automation of policy centered allows resources to be provisioned dynamically and configured according to the application requirements. The result is that basic services such as traffic management, application delivery and firewall can be used by applications in a way that is automated, reproducible, follows-the-app and simple push-button
- Application Services. These are the higher level applications centered services such as load balancing, firewalling, advanced optimizations, the firewall application and so on, who live in the network, but have an affinity for applications.
A collaboration between Citrix and Cisco can enable the Cisco Application Infrastructure Policy Controller (APIC) to become part of control and automation with Citrix NetScaler provide multiple application services.
APIC enables service integration solution based policies that automates step of routing network traffic to the right services based on application policies. Adding, deleting and automatic service reorganization allows applications to change quickly without having to rewire, reconfigure or move resources and services. This is the policy that evolves with the application in a topology and location independently.
Citrix NetScaler APIC works in the environment in an integrated manner providing layer 4-7 services like load balancing, application acceleration, optimization, and application security.
What to do?
Put simply, integration between NetScaler and Cisco APIC unify both management and the flow of data through hardware and software in the data center. It makes a number of things possible: ..
- You can automatically insert a service based on application strategies
- network services can now be automated with scripts leveraging open APIs
- You close integration of physical and virtual services appliances.
- With virtual LAN overlays, scale and multi-location can be woven in without any additional special processing for network services.
- You get visibility and statistics on the network and services.
Why is this important?
This level of + application tightly integrated network infrastructure can be a game changer.
- central control point - now there is a place in the network to control all the functions that the network provides. The application teams can focus on enforcement policies and the network can manage their provisioning and deployment
- Scalable and elastic - .. by decoupling service nodes of the service policy, we allow the elastic scale with both physical and virtual ADC appliances
- investment protection - integration is designed to be fully compatible with existing NetScaler deployments and deployment models
- Open - while that work on this integration is revolutionary, we are committed to help standardize some of the important innovations enter. For example, Cisco and Citrix lead within the IETF to define the header service network protocol (NSH) that supports the fluid movement of the two service functions and application workloads within the tissue.
join us on the application path + Networking
When you adopt the latest and greatest from Citrix and Cisco are part of this program, you can be at the forefront of this movement. However, one of the best things about our collaborative activities is that even if we work together to provide a NetScaler integration with Cisco ACI, we have integrated NetScaler with Nexus 1000V and 7000 already. These integrations serve as a prelude to fully managed ACI, bringing the benefits of application awareness to today's networks.
Summary
In conclusion, the unification and cross-leverage the application and infrastructure we see here brings based automation complete centralized policy unified data flow on all the layers 2-7. Similarly, a single pane of glass for configuration, policy and provides visibility corresponding unification in the control plane as well.
to exciting times ahead. Watch more innovation from Cisco and Citrix.
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