Vianen, 14 mei 2007 - Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), wereldwijd marktleider op het gebied van application delivery infrastructure, heeft de resultaten bekend gemaakt van een gezamenlijke performance-test van Citrix-oplossingen. De test, die werd uitgevoerd in het SAP® Services Community Networking Lab had betrekking op producten als Citrix® NetScaler®, Citrix WANScaler™ en Citrix Presentation Server™. SAP Labs concludeert dat een Citrix application delivery-infrastructuur de reactietijd voor gebruikers van SAP-applicaties met meer dan 50 tot 99 procent kan versnellen. Tegelijkertijd wordt de efficiëntie van bestaande servers, netwerken en bandbreedte aanzienlijk verbeterd.
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Citrix Teams Up With SAP to Reduce Network Wait Time over 50 to 99 Percent
Citrix NetScaler, WANScaler and Presentation Server Provide Strong Performance Improvements and Reduce Server, Network and Bandwidth Costs Says New Report
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced the results of a new report based on joint performance testing of Citrix solutions conducted at the SAP® Enterprise Services Community Networking Lab.
[1] In the tests, which measured the impact of products like Citrix® NetScaler®, Citrix WANScaler™ and Citrix Presentation Server™, SAP Labs found that Citrix application delivery infrastructure can enhance response times for SAP application users by up to 99 percent while substantially improving the efficiency of existing servers, networks and bandwidth.
Working with SAP, Citrix tested its comprehensive application delivery infrastructure product line against a wide range of SAP applications that are in heavy demand. Performance benefits for common user scenarios ranged from 50 to 99 percent improvement in end user response time and up to 60 percent improvement in server CPU utilization, depending on the specific application and user scenario under test.
The tests demonstrated that Citrix NetScaler and Citrix WANScaler can improve end-user response times for data-intensive transactions by an average of 80 to 95 percent. When used together, response times were improved by as much as 99 percent. Citrix Presentation Server showed similar benefits, improving end user response times by 50 to 97 percent while simplifying application management and reducing data security risks. SAP’s performance baseline for downloading a 5MB file from SAP NetWeaver® Enterprise Portal was an admirable one second per transaction but in tests with low quality networks, such as a simulated fractional T1 commonly found in branch offices, response times could slow. Citrix was able to restore user performance back to mere seconds, even over that low quality network. Additional tests further demonstrated the benefits of secure application access using Citrix Access Gateway™ and improved visibility into end user performance with Citrix EdgeSight™.
Trends such as user mobility, data center consolidation and the emergence of web-based technologies have made it increasingly difficult for IT organizations to deliver mission-critical business applications in a way that lowers cost, reduces risk and increases business ability. At the same time, application end users have increasingly high expectations for the performance, availability and usability of applications that must now compete for network resources with a growing volume of VoIP (voice over IP), e-mail, streaming media, general Internet access and other application traffic. The results of these tests demonstrate that Citrix’s application delivery infrastructure can help address any network challenges, while enabling IT administrators to reduce cost and complexity for seamless support.
“The SAP Enterprise Services Community launched the Network Services Test Lab in an effort to prove and demonstrate the great benefits of modern network technologies,” said Joerg Nalik, Ph.D., Director, Partner Solution Management, SAP Labs. “As business processes grow ever more advanced, application delivery and WAN optimization become areas for increasing focus. Citrix clearly delivers significant network performance and security benefits for SAP customers.”
The Citrix application delivery products tested with SAP applications in this study included the following:
- Citrix NetScaler — an application delivery controller designed to deliver web-based applications with the best performance, security and cost savings. NetScaler optimizes web applications with an integrated networking solution that accelerates performance, improves security, and substantially reduces load on servers. Its innovative AppExpert Visual Policy Builder makes it easy for customers to tune policies to match the specific needs of each unique SAP applications environment.
- Citrix Presentation Server — an application delivery controller designed to deliver Windows-based applications with the best performance, security and cost savings. Presentation Server reduces management costs, improves performance and reduces data security risks by letting customers install Windows applications in the datacenter and virtualizing or streaming them to end users over the network.
- Citrix WANScaler — a WAN optimization solution designed to improve the performance of all applications as they are delivered over the wide area network to branch office users.
- Citrix Access Gateway — an SSL VPN solution that provides a secure single secure point of access to all applications and automatically customizes access policies based on user scenarios through innovative Citrix® SmartAccess technology.
- Citrix EdgeSight — an application performance monitoring solution that ensures applications are meeting business metrics at all times by monitoring performance from the user’s perspective.
The testing results additionally concluded that while there are a variety of performance-enhancing solutions for applications available on the market today, Citrix is unique in its exclusive focus on application delivery and in the breadth of solutions it can offer the leading provider of business software solutions, SAP, with optimization, virtualization, management and security solutions for delivering the best experience to customers and everyday end users.
Whitepaper Availability
A detailed account of the testing environment and results is available in a white paper titled, “Citrix Shifts Your SAP Solutions into High Gear” and can be downloaded at
www.citrix.com/sapreport.
About Citrix and SAP
Citrix is an SAP Global Technology Partner and the companies share integrated technology support for the thousands of organizations around the world who already use Citrix to deliver their SAP solutions. Citrix customer surveys show that SAP is a Top Ten Most Frequently Delivered Application on Citrix’s Application Delivery Infrastructure.
About Citrix NetScaler
Citrix NetScaler optimizes the delivery of web applications— increasing security and improving performance and Web server capacity. This approach ensures the best total cost of ownership (TCO), security, availability, and performance for Web applications. The Citrix NetScaler solution is a comprehensive network system that combines high-speed load balancing and content switching with state-of-the-art application acceleration, layer 4-7 traffic management, data compression, dynamic content caching, SSL acceleration, network optimization, and robust application security into a single, tightly integrated solution. Deployed in front of application servers, the system significantly reduces processing overhead on application and database servers, reducing hardware and bandwidth costs.
About Citrix Presentation Server
Citrix Presentation Server is the de facto standard for delivering Windows applications at the lowest cost—to any user, anywhere. It offers both application virtualization and application streaming delivery methods to enable the best access experience for any user, with any device, working over any network. By centralizing applications and data in secure data centers, IT can reduce costs of management and support, increase data security, and facilitate business continuity. Presentation Server allows IT to deliver applications as a service—providing on-demand access to users, while affording IT the flexibility to leverage future application architectures.
About Citrix WANScaler
Citrix WANScaler solutions accelerate the delivery of applications to branch offices, datacenters, and mobile workers, over wide area networks (WANs) by 5x to 30x. Citrix WANScaler is a completely transparent, end-to-end solution for all IP-based WANs, eliminating the need for any changes to current network management tools, firewalls, network services, or applications. The solution delivers increased WAN throughput and improved application response times for all applications, supporting hundreds of branch offices and WAN throughput up to 500 Mbps.
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 180,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 98% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2006 was $1.1 billion.
For Citrix Investors
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[1] Testing was conducted by the Enterprise Services Community (ESC). The ESC created the ENL, a controlled lab environment for the testing of networking products in a production grade Enterprise SOA environment. The ENL is based on the SAP Discovery Server, a collection of common business scenarios, in the form of composite applications. Mercury LoadRunner virtual user sessions executed the predefined workflows and a Shunra WAN Emulator allowed network quality to be varied for each test.
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