| Citrix Lauches NetScaler 7.0 |
| Wednesday, 20 September 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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The new Citrix NetScaler 7.0 release adds more than 150 new capabilities designed to meet the increasing web application delivery demands of enterprise customers across all functional areas, including: Record Application Scalability Now supports up to 15,000 servers supported in a single application environment – a three-fold increase over Citrix’s already record-level scalability. Advanced management of policy elements also allows automated configuration changes to be made across large numbers of objects, such as servers and application services. More Powerful Application Policy Management Adds numerous enhancements to Citrix NetScaler’s application policy management framework, AppExpert™, including an enhanced ability to rewrite HTTP headers for highly complex Web applications. Additional enhancements include full bi-directional rewriting of headers and URLs, allowing organizations to more rapidly integrate independently-developed applications while publishing a single, consistent Web URL address to all users. Improved Application Availability More sophisticated application health monitoring capabilities that provide early warnings of potential problems with critical transactional elements in complex web applications. Expanded Application Security Additional capabilities that protect sensitive internal details of an application infrastructure, such as IP addresses, internal URLs and directory files. The new release also incorporates numerous additional security capabilities, including enhanced management of access control lists (ACLs) that simplify the control of traffic permitted within a trusted application environment. Enhanced Ease of Configuration and Management Substantial improvements in ease-of-use across the entire product line, including new configuration wizards that automate set-up tasks and substantially reduce deployment times for both network administrators and channel partners. The new release also includes multiple advances to NetScaler’s graphical user interface (GUI) and command-line interface (CLI), making policy management even more intuitive and enabling application delivery policy management by non-networking specialists. Simplified SSL Security Management Simple, wizard-driven creation of SSL certificates that are used to encrypt sensitive web application data. Strong security and continuous application availability is maintained with automated warnings of SSL certificates about to expire. Support for New Application Types – Expanded support for application traffic such as voice over IP (VoIP) and instant messaging (IM) through capabilities like load balancing for session initiation protocol (SIP) servers. Citrix NetScaler 7.0 is available immediately. Pricing begins at $17,499 per system. Read the full press release here.
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