Alliance to Enhance Web Application Delivery
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, May 22, 2008

Citirx Systems and Akamai Technolgies have entered into an agreement that will make it easier for customers and integration partners to combine each company's web application delivery offerings into integrated solutions.

Mark Templeton, president and CEO of Citrix Systems, said "This initiative is strategic for both Akamai and Citrix as it marks the beginning of a close collaboration between two market leaders that will focus on optimizing total cost of ownership and performance experiences for customers via a new class of application delivery controller services."

As part of the collaboration between the companies intend to establish Citrix-Akamai partner assistance program to help integrators establish practices to implement the two solutions together at customer sites.

Paul Sagan, president and CEO of Akamai said, "Together, Akamai and Citrix solutions create one end-to-end solution and allows customers to maximize their investment. It also helps in faster application performance, greater infrastructure scalability, higher application availability and deeper application security."

Besides, there will be a Citrix-Akamai online community that will help enterprise customers share practices, experiences, and support questions. The two companies will also publish a series of practices deployment guides showing recommended configuration guidelines to achieve the application performance for various scenarios.

The companies will leverage Citrix's premise-based NetScaler product line and Akamai's cloud-based Web Application Accelerator service to bring end-to-end web application delivery to both Internet and enterprise customers worldwide.

Citrix and Akamai are responding to this challenge by working with leading system integrators to bring customers faster web application performance, higher application , greater infrastructure scalability and deeper application security.


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