Enterprise IT / IT Infrastructure

A Practical Path to Automating Application Networks

This report reviews the state of SDN today, including key factors in its evolution. It also reviews the development of standards such as OpenFlow and the more recent OpFlex open policy protocol that complements it. It will then look at how the Application Centric Networking model from Cisco has developed to create a more complete solution for SDN that combines L4 — 7 services from Citrix using the NetScaler ADC.

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Enterprise IT / IT Infrastructure

SDN 102: Software Defined Networks and the Role of Application Delivery Network Services

This white paper will describe some of the models for SDNs, identify some of the associated use cases and describe methods to integrate application delivery network services with a focus on the Citrix® NetScaler App Delivery Controller™. The ADC provides application acceleration, and server load balancing. These services are essential to ensuring application performance and availability, which assures the best user experience.

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IT Infrastructure

Taking the Confusion Out of the Payment Ecosystem

The term “payment ecosystem” typically evokes complexity and confusion among novices and professionals alike. Terminology, networks, and regulations are some of the factors that create and foster this less-than-positive perception. The reality is that payment ecosystems are like a well-oiled machine with many moving parts that rely on each other to operate efficiently. In this white paper, you’ll find out how the ecosystem consists of a network of participants who communicate financial information back and forth.

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IT Infrastructure

Five Support Imperatives That Can Save the Internet of Things

The obstacles to supporting the Internet of Things (IoT) are well recognized and have been written about exclusively. Solutions to those problems, however, have been elusive and actionable prescriptives are hard to come by.

This white paper addresses the five must-do’s that can power a fundamental shift in your approach to support. It could mean the difference between an Internet of Things that enhances lives and a “Bunch of Things” that just complicate them further.

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