Citrix unleashes nCore for Netscaler appliances

BENGALURU, INDIA: Citrix Systems unveiled the nCore technology that allows its high-end Citrix NetScaler appliances to deliver Web 2.0 applications and cloud services for up to 7x more users with no new hardware investments required.

By upgrading their existing NetScaler appliances to the nCore powered software, Citrix customers can access the multi-core Intel processors that power NetScaler MPX hardware appliances, allowing them to run more web acceleration and security functions in parallel.

NetScaler MPX hardware appliances and the new NetScaler VPX virtual appliances provide a web application delivery solution for L4-7 load balancing, compression, caching, SSL offload, application security, SSL VPN and performance monitoring—simplifying web application delivery by offloading servers, improving user experience and consolidating multiple point products into a single appliance. As a result, customers using NetScaler can reduce capital expenditures, ease IT management demands and ensure a more resilient application infrastructure.

“We are very excited to announce the addition of nCore technology to our NetScaler platform because it provides our customers far greater scalability and performance with no additional hardware investment. This technology gives us the right software architecture to extend our multi-year performance leadership, while enabling the flexibility to meet emerging web application delivery requirements,” said Klaus Oestermann, Group VP and GM—Product Group, NetScaler.