Citrix ADC offers companies the opportunity to make better use of their cloud infrastructure and prepare for complex cloud environments.

As the rate of digital transformation increases and more organisations move to multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments, the application delivery controller becomes ever more important. Citrix ADC enables a smooth transition to the cloud, manages the advent of microservices, and provides reliable access, cost savings, and flexibility.

Prepare for More Complex Cloud Environments

More and more applications will find their way to the cloud in the future. Most companies already operate a hybrid-cloud infrastructure — and use microservices to run their various cloud platforms. To deploy and manage microservices easily on your preferred architecture, you need a flexible app delivery platform that lets you move to cloud-native at your own pace.

All applications, regardless of where they run, must be available as reliably and securely as if they all came from a uniform infrastructure. The demand from management is for performance, convenience, and security with access to applications and data from any location and any device. IT needs to keep up or ahead of those expectations.

Intelligent Control of Delivery

Hybrid multi-clouds increase data traffic exponentially, and the network infrastructure for delivering applications can become a bottleneck very quickly. This leads to increased IT costs and a battle to control them.

The new generation of Citrix ADCs, combined with an application-centric view on networking, addresses these issues. The new ADC models set the bar high and are recommended for all company sizes and application scenarios, from on-premises to public cloud infrastructures to microservice-based applications. Flexibility across different public clouds helps you to stay aligned with your cloud team and avoid the lock-in that can come with public clouds.

Are You Already Expanding or Changing?

Citrix has developed its ADC solution from an application and end-user-centric perspective. It is the solution for two reasons:

Firstly, pooled capacity is a licensing framework that offers the ultimate flexibility to move capacity where it’s needed most. Licenses are not tied to a specific physical or virtual ADC, enabling licenses and bandwidth to be checked out from a common pool.

This leads to resources being better utilized and IT reacting quickly to new requirements. They have a better overview of the networking infrastructure and can automate more processes than with a static operating model. Pooled capacity also has a cost benefit. Network resources become more transparent, so costs can be allocated more easily to internal cost centers.

Secondly, Citrix ADC together with pooled capacity licensing and Citrix Application Delivery Management (ADM) enable faster migration to the cloud. During migration it is important to avoid uncontrolled growth and maintain an overview of infrastructure and applications. The Citrix ADC software runs locally and on various clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure, enabling IT to manage all applications via a single application delivery platform. In addition, this setup offers the flexibility needed to react quickly to a constantly changing infrastructure.

Learn how fashion retailer Lindex leverages Citrix ADC to support its move to DevOps.

“Success in online retail is all about speed,” says Lindex CTO Florian Westerdahl. “We need to deliver fast performance and service for customers, and we need to be fast to market with new features. That means testing hypotheses, keeping what works, and quickly changing what doesn’t.

To see firsthand how Citrix ADC can help your organisation make better use of its cloud infrastructure and prepare for complex cloud environments, request a demo today.