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Achieving optimized application performance in the hybrid cloud Citrix ADC on Microsoft Azure

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Table of contents

The impact of traffic to the cloud on application performance 3

The benefits of deploying an Application Delivery Controller (ADC) 4

Citrix ADC on Microsoft Azure 5

- Enable visibility into performance with centralized management 6

- Integrate cloud-native networking with microservices

and containerization 7

- Build in flexibility with pooled license capacity �� 8

Citrix and Microsoft Azure: Better together 9

Why Citrix? �� 10

Why Azure? �� 11

Getting started with Citrix ADC �� 12

About Citrix 13


The impact of traffic to the cloud on application performance

Cloud computing has changed the way business resources are

deployed and used. Web-based applications have become the

mainstay of customer interaction with your business. Consequently,

the workload traffic within the network and between the network and

the cloud have become the primary conduits for your applications.

Customers have come to expect a high-quality, satisfying application

experience. Competition in your market can be a powerful motivator.

Therefore, it’s essential that your business be able to provide available,

secure, and reliable access to all your internet applications – all the

time�

However, the network can fail to keep up with increased traffic to

the cloud. Despite what the portability, flexibility, and security of the

cloud – in hybrid or multi-cloud environments – offer the enterprise,

application delivery has become much more complex.

Furthermore, overprovisioning application servers or increasing the

number of applications exacerbate traffic congestion. This pressure

wastes precious resources, as well as reduces availability, compromises

security, and decreases performance. In the end, the network-to-cloud

conduit would still be expected to cost-effectively deliver the apps.

To regain control of the applications at the heart of your business, and

take advantage of the economical benefits of the cloud, you will need

an application delivery controller (ADC). An effective ADC, together

with a management and orchestration platform, provide complete

visibility into your entire application infrastructure.

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The benefits of deploying an ADC

It takes a reliable, highly available, secure, and cost-effective IT

infrastructure to meet the demands of increased application

traffic. To this end, the ADC is purpose-built to optimize

application delivery speed and performance. Whether on-

premises or in the cloud, the ability of an ADC to right-size

capacity improves speed, security, and resiliency of applications

delivered over the internet.

Built with a cloud native approach, the Citrix ADC is an all-in-one

solution that brings continuous granular visibility, availability,

and high performance to the applications in your network -- or

to those in the cloud. It ensures Level 4-7 load balancing and

improved application performance.

Additionally, Citrix ADC enables you to reduce your TCO by

increasing server utilization and rolling back the number of

servers needed through better distribution of connections.

Citrix ADC enables you

to reduce your TCO


Citrix ADC on Microsoft Azure

Enable visibility into performance with centralized management

Integrate cloud-native networking with microservices

Build in flexibility with pooled license capacity

To ensure fast application development and delivery with Citrix

ADC, and reliable performance in a hybrid cloud environment,

the differentiator is Microsoft Azure.

Citrix ADC on Azure supports the orchestration and automation

of web application workloads. The right traffic goes to the right

server for the best possible performance.

Three specific use cases of Citrix ADC on Azure enable you

to achieve application performance in your network.

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Enable visibility into performance with centralized management

Citrix ADC on the Azure platform allows you to

leverage and deploy on your most current and familiar

infrastructure quickly and simply.

Easily deploy to remote locations in minutes and operate

distributed networks with a cloud-based application

that can be centrally managed from a single console for

end-to-end network visibility. This helps you pinpoint

operational problems promptly.

Citrix ADC on Azure ensures that you gain access to secure

and optimized apps and assets deployed in the cloud.

Further to optimizing deployment, accelerated and

expanded application delivery with consolidated load

balancing and monitored Level 4-7 traffic management

enable operational efficiency. Additionally, you get the

ability to launch your app delivery infrastructure thanks to

templates that provide access to cloud service automation

tools. All of this happens without costly overprovisioning or

disruptive hardware upgrades, allowing your organization

to achieve a competitive advantage.

U S E C A S E 1


The need to respond quickly to market changes is your imperative.

Attaining the business agility, automation, and ease-of-

management needed to meet this goal requires transforming away

from legacy applications to a digital enterprise with a cloud-native,

low-footprint approach to applications.

Together, Citrix ADC and Azure provide the necessary capabilities

for moving to more service-oriented applications. This enables the

use of microservices that ship code faster, and migration to a hybrid

or multi-cloud environment. Citrix ADC comes in a containerized

form factor that can scale apps to requirements for current and

future use in an automated container orchestration system, such as

Kubernetes�

For an almost unlimited infrastructure that’s available on demand,

adopting a DevOps practice that offers microservices applications

for virtual and cloud-based models holds great advantages for your

business. Being able to develop products designed at the outset to

scale helps you increase the efficiency and productivity of your

DevOps teams. This saves you time and costs associated with

legacy environments, which ultimately shortens your production

time, and consequently, your time-to-market.

Integrate cloud-native networking with microservices and containerization

U S E C A S E 2


Build in flexibility with pooled license capacity

Your organization depends on applications

to bring the business to your customers. But

not all applications are equal. To dynamically

manage the growing number of applications

and their production and delivery, you

ultimately need to optimize for flexibility:

the ability to right-size different application

architectures with on-demand, multi-

dimensional scaling technology.

Citrix ADC gives you precisely this essential

auto-scaling capability, wherever your

applications live—in the data center, on virtual

or microservices platforms, in the cloud, and

as SaaS. As more apps are being moved to

the cloud, the ability to build in auto-scaling

flexibility is increased in a hybrid or multi-cloud

environment.

Multi-dimensional scaling enables you to scale

ADC instances to accommodate demand or a

specific need of the application:

• Transitioning from hardware to a cloud or

virtual platform

• Sharing varying capacity across data

centers, at different times

• Enabling shorter refresh cycles for ADCs

• Increasing scalability or consolidating of

existing ADC infrastructure

Most ADC resources are tethered to static

licenses that can specify throughput, under-

utilization or under-licensing of some devices.

However, Citrix ADC provides flexible license

management; thereby allowing you to easily

apply license capacity to an under-utilized

resource in the data center or in the cloud.

Citrix ADC on Azure enables optimal cloud

economics and security for your applications.

U S E C A S E 3


Microsoft Azure is Citrix’s strategic and preferred public

cloud. Citrix solutions were designed to work best in Azure.

Our collaborative ventures deliver unparalleled value to our

customers, as well as achieve our company-specific goals.

With 30 years’ experience in delivering enterprise

business applications remotely, only Citrix has the proven

technology to securely deliver Windows applications

and desktops at scale from any location, and to any

device. Citrix solutions deployed in the customer’s Azure

subscription provide the most powerful, flexible, and cost-

effective solutions that our customers are asking for.

Citrix and Microsoft Azure: Better together


Why Citrix?

Built to lastCitrix solutions are designed to

provide platform stability, network and

data security, and compliance with

regulatory requirements.

TrustworthyCitrix solutions are being used by

more than 400,000 organizations and

100+ million users globally.

Leader in application performanceCitrix has a comprehensive suite of

digital workspace solutions that provide

secure remote access to applications

and desktops. When combined

with Citrix ADC, business can deliver

optimized application performance – all

the time�


Why Azure?

IntelligentCreate intelligent apps using powerful data

and artificial intelligence services.

TrustedGet the same comprehensive security,

privacy, compliance, and intellectual property

protections that 95 percent of Fortune 500

businesses, governments, and startups that

run on the Microsoft Cloud have today.

ProductiveReduce marketing cycles by delivering

features faster with more than 100 end-to-

end services.

HybridDevelop and deploy where you want, with the

only consistent hybrid cloud on the market.

Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to

help your organization meet your business challenges. Azure

gives you the freedom to build, manage, and deploy

applications on a massive, global network using your favorite

tools and frameworks.


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Additional solutions from Citrix

Citrix SD-WAN

If your cloud strategy currently includes providing

access to the internet along with SaaS apps, SD-WAN

can help you maintain security while ensuring a high-

quality, always-on application experience for users in

any location.

Citrix Gateway Service (CGS) For supporting the use of hybrid infrastructure, Citrix

CGS is a cloud service that provides single sign-on (SSO)

to not only Citrix virtualization cloud services, but to any

SaaS, web, or Citrix virtualization products deployed

on-premises without the need for any additional access

management service for your SaaS or web applications.

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Achieving optimized application · mainstay of customer interaction with your business. Consequently, the workload traffic within the network and between the network and the cloud