Citrix Plans Enhanced Load balancing Tools

Wednesday, 22 June 2005 by Michel Roth

Speaking at the iForum user conference in Edinburgh, Citrix chief executive Mark Templeton said the company would be developing tools for monitoring and measuring end-user application performance and auditing who accessed what, when and where. It will also be offering compliance-based auditing tools and support for forensic capabilities.

Some users have reported problems load balancing Citrix-based applications, because it is difficult to prioritise certain types of users, such as the finance department during busy times.

Templeton said, "We need to improve load balancing: today you have to hard code the load balancing algorithm. It is very sophisticated and highly capable, but it needs to take a back seat, and the system needs to learn how the user uses the application to auto-optimise bandwidth and offer the best access experience."

The recent acquisition of NetScaler, which produces technology that can speed up applications by up to five times, should help Citrix to improve both application throughput and load balancing. Citrix said it would integrate NetScaler technology into the core Citrix Access suite.

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