More than 80% of companies have adopted a multi-cloud strategy to increase agility. However, providing fast and secure application delivery across multi-cloud environments remains challenging. Rest assured, Citrix ADC is a software-centric application delivery solution that empowers business leaders to provide fast, reliable, and secure application delivery across multi-cloud environments.
From on-premises to the cloud, it delivers applications consistently and securely. Furthermore, it is the most comprehensive application delivery and load balancing solution for monolithic and microservices-based applications. As a result, businesses can deliver a better user experience on any device, anywhere.
Here are five reasons your company needs Citrix ADC:
Keep customers happy
Customers will become disloyal when products are unavailable. Therefore, applications need to perform with consistency, speed, and reliability. Citrix ADC is highly scalable and provides better performance and lower latency. As a result, businesses can offer customers a seamless experience with every application, every time.
Increase agility by moving to multi-cloud faster
Ensuring consistent, seamless, and secure application delivery across multi-cloud environments can be complex and time-consuming. However, unlike other leading solutions, only Citrix ADC uses a single code base across its portfolio. This provides operational and feature consistency across multi-cloud environments.
Pair that with pooled capacity licensing to easily redistribute throughput capacity to ADCs wherever needed. Consequently, businesses gain more agility through simplified application delivery.
Strengthen the company’s security posture
Applications and APIs are valuable assets. However, protecting them from attack is challenging. Given that 92% of reported vulnerabilities are in applications rather than networks, organisations need comprehensive, layered, and proven security for monolithic and microservices-based applications.
Citrix ADC Layer 3-7 security features arm businesses with the tools they need to fight the war on bad actors. As a result, organisations can better protect critical applications and services.
Modern bot attacks are increasingly sophisticated and can mimic human behaviour. Therefore, it is often difficult to distinguish bots from legitimate users. Citrix has developed machine learning (ML) techniques that help customers mitigate traffic from these sophisticated malicious bots.
ML can baseline normal activity and detect subtle abnormalities in traffic behaviour. Additionally, it can generate integrated alerts for security administrators.
The enhanced security these techniques bring safeguards customer environments from attacks such as account takeovers. Furthermore, Citrix’s bot detection capabilities, combined with ML, can help reduce content scraping. By identifying which users are real or fake, organisations can single out bots and report them effectively.
Gain actionable insights and troubleshoot faster
To complement Citrix ADC, Citrix Application Delivery Management provides holistic visibility and analytics from one console. It is the only application delivery management platform that equips businesses with comprehensive automation, faster troubleshooting, and actionable insights.
Furthermore, it provides a single pane of glass for all ADCs across the multi-cloud environment.
Go cloud native with confidence
Cloud native application development can improve agility. However, 50% of businesses cite a lack of skills as the top challenge when adopting cloud native infrastructure.
Because microservices deployment and delivery are complex, and IT skill sets vary, Citrix provides a choice of architectures. This helps organisations balance the greatest benefits with ease of implementation.
Citrix ADC integrates with popular Kubernetes platforms and open-source tools. As a result, businesses benefit from enhanced performance, lower latency, and better observability.
Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
Citrix ADC appliances configured for GSLB provide disaster recovery and ensure continuous application availability. They achieve this by protecting against points of failure in a WAN.
Additionally, GSLB balances workloads across data centres. It directs client requests to the closest or best-performing data centre. Alternatively, it can direct traffic to surviving data centres during an outage.
Better economics
When moving to the cloud, it can be difficult to predict future capacity requirements. As a result, businesses often end up with too much or too little capacity to cover unpredictable demand.
Flexible licensing helps organisations avoid over and under-provisioning. It does this by dynamically allocating capacity where it is needed most.
For example, if a company has resources located in different parts of the world, it can set a policy to provision and deprovision bandwidth based on the time of day. Consequently, there is no need to purchase maximum-capacity ADCs for every location. This leads to better resource utilisation and more predictable costs.
Conclusion
Citrix ADC accelerates the journey to multi-cloud for monolithic and microservices-based applications. It gives business leaders the flexibility to move at the pace that is right for their organisation. Furthermore, it helps businesses deliver a consistent, secure, and reliable experience that keeps employees engaged and productive.
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Citrix ADC also plays an important role in strengthening application security and supporting modern hybrid cloud environments