Citrix releases Netscaler as virtual appliance
Two days ago Citrix released the Netscaler VPX
Netscaler VPX is a netscaler based on a Xen Virtual Appliance which will take scalability and sizing to the next level. Oh and it is free! Citrix has put a $10.000 award on an interesting and new way to make use of this Netscaler VPX. This way they want to improve the functionality of the netscaler even more. This takes development to a new level.
NetScaler VPX represents a fundamentally different approach to the growing convergence of virtualization and networking technologies in the modern datacenter. Unlike some leading networking vendors who promote proprietary hardware as the focal point of this convergence, Citrix believes it is best accomplished through open, flexible solutions that work with the technology customers have already invested in, allowing them to extend the value of their existing investments in ways they never thought possible before. NetScaler VPX not only enhances the delivery of virtualized server and application resources, it actually enables the NetScaler appliance itself to become a virtualized service that can be easily and rapidly deployed anywhere in the datacenter on standard server resources, just like any other virtual workload.
