The Challenges of Modern Application Delivery
Businesses need to deliver apps with high reliability, deep visibility, and security across any network and cloud. They must ensure their workforce has uninterrupted access to applications from any device. This applies whether employees are in the office, at a branch, or at a remote business location.
Traditional networking and infrastructure solutions continue to pose challenges. They may lack the necessary automation and visibility, present availability issues, and offer limited scalability.
Network outages, poor-performing applications, and server failures in the datacentre or public cloud negatively impact user productivity. They can also result in significant revenue loss.
SaaS, web, and virtualised applications need to be globally available. They must also perform well over any network with high reliability. Provisioning more infrastructure or bandwidth is not the answer. It only increases capital expenditure on resources that do not solve quality and reliability issues.
Enterprises pursuing solutions for application delivery in a SaaS, multi-device, and multi-cloud world should consider a holistic strategy. This approach reduces complexities that can otherwise limit visibility and control in distributed architectures.
A high-performing, scalable, reliable, and secure application delivery strategy must align applications with the underlying delivery network. It must also ensure a world-class end-user experience, regardless of when, where, and how users connect.
Delivering Reliability and a High-Quality Experience
Citrix app delivery and security solutions provide highly available, reliable, and secure application delivery across different networks. They support users working from anywhere, including branch and off-site locations, through an integrated approach.
Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC)
Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) secures, distributes, and optimises traffic to applications. It provides identical functionality across any environment, including appliances, hypervisors, containers, and cloud platforms.
Citrix Application Delivery Management (ADM)
Citrix Application Delivery Management (ADM) provides centralised visibility. This helps organisations monitor and troubleshoot their global application delivery infrastructure.
Citrix SD-WAN
Citrix SD-WAN provides secure, resilient, and high-performance connectivity for applications running in the datacentre, public cloud, or SaaS environments.
SD-WAN Orchestrator
SD-WAN Orchestrator is a cloud-hosted management tool. It provides visibility into WAN network and application performance. It also enables reporting and analytics across sites, users, and links.
Citrix Gateway
Citrix Gateway consolidates remote access infrastructure and provides secure access to applications from any device.
It helps organisations eliminate point solutions such as VPNs, monitors, and single-purpose gateways. As a result, businesses can reduce costs and simplify IT management.
Citrix Gateway also delivers a single, secure front end with single sign-on (SSO) across internal applications, web applications, and cloud resources.
Security capabilities such as multifactor authentication and granular contextual policies help organisations balance productivity, user experience, and security.
Simplifying Infrastructure and Improving Visibility
Together, Citrix app delivery and security solutions help businesses ensure global application availability. They also deliver high performance and a quality user experience, whether users are on campus, at a branch, or at an off-site location.
These solutions consolidate network and security infrastructure by reducing the number of ADC, WAN, and firewall devices required. They also reduce the number of URLs users need to access applications.
As a result, organisations can lower costs while improving visibility and control over application delivery.
Furthermore, these solutions support a Zero Trust security model with single sign-on, encryption, and a built-in edge security stack at the WAN edge.
Supporting SaaS, Hybrid, and Multi-Cloud Environments
Citrix app delivery and security solutions support SaaS, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. They provide secure access from anywhere, including direct internet access from branch locations.
At the same time, organisations can apply centrally managed, granular, and contextual policies for SaaS and web application access.
Gaining Visibility and Control
Businesses can gain deeper visibility into users, applications, data, sites, sessions, and network conditions. This improves root cause analysis and helps reduce SLA-related issues.
These solutions help ensure employees, contractors, and partners have reliable, secure, and consistent access to the applications they need. As a result, they can remain productive regardless of where they work.