Citrix, Akamai collaborate for web application delivery

BANGALORE, INDIA: Citrix Systems and Akamai Technologies announced an agreement that will make it easier for customers and integration partners to combine each company’s web application delivery offerings into integrated solutions that enhance the performance, scalability and security of enterprise web applications.

The companies will leverage Citrix’s premise-based NetScaler product line and Akamai’s cloud-based Web Application Accelerator service to bring true end-to-end web application delivery to both Internet and enterprise customers worldwide. 

“This initiative is strategic for both Akamai and Citrix as it marks the beginning of a close collaboration between two market leaders that will focus on optimizing total cost of ownership and performance experiences for customers via a new class of application delivery controller services,” said Mark Templeton, president and CEO, Citrix Systems.

“Optimization of the user experience will happen in the data center, at the edge of the network and in the Internet cloud, allowing IT to deliver any application to any user with the best performance, security and cost savings possible.”

Paul Sagan, president and CEO, Akamai said, “Together, Akamai and Citrix solutions create one end-to-end solution that allows customers to maximize their investment quickly while benefiting from faster application performance, greater infrastructure scalability, higher application availability and deeper application security.”

As part of the collaboration, the companies intend to establish Citrix-Akamai Partner Assistance Program and Citrix-Akamai Online Community.