Citrix today announced that it has been evaluated by Gartner, Inc. for
its NetScaler® solution, the market-leading application delivery
controller used as core infrastructure for some of the largest cloud
providers in the world, and positioned in the leaders quadrant in the
2015 Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers
(ADC) report authored by Gartner analysts Andrew Lerner, Mark Fabbi,
Danilo Ciscato and Joe Skorupa,
for the ninth consecutive year.
According to Gartner, Inc., “a Leader exhibits the ability to shape the
market by introducing additional capabilities in its product offerings
and by raising awareness of the importance of these features. Key
capabilities for a leader in this market revolve around enterprise
application functionality. We expect a leader to have strong or growing
market share and to have solutions that resonate with an increasing
number of enterprises. We expect leaders to release ADC capabilities
(deployment models, features, pricing models, etc.) well in advance of
the mainstream enterprise demand. A leader must exhibit expertise in
complex enterprise application environments and offers a range of
deployment models.”
As noted in the report, “the key criterion in this Magic Quadrant
focuses on the vendor's ability to provide products and services that
solve complex application deployment challenges. Success in this market
goes beyond features. It involves a deep understanding of how the
elements of applications perform across the network and how emerging
network and application deployment options, such as network fabrics, SDN
and cloud services, will change ADC deployment models.”
The full 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery
Controllers report can be viewed here.
“We
are honored to be recognized by Gartner for the ninth consecutive year
in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for
ADCs. Citrix NetScaler holds the clear number-two position in ADC market
and is the only application delivery controller vendor that offers a
comprehensive solution, including SD-WAN/WAN virtualization. The
combination of these capabilities offers a unique ability to provide
end-to-end application assurance and optimization. Citrix NetScaler is a
strategic core component of the company’s overall strategy for secure
workspace, desktop and application delivery for any app, over any
network, in any location. The Citrix delivery networking vision has
proven to be well-aligned with our customers’ demands for their
businesses today. This vision enables them to transform to meet the
future needs for business agility and the accelerated shift towards a
fully-automated software-defined application, network and datacenter
infrastructure. These trends are in play in our cloud service provider
and large eCommerce customer-base, as well as early adopters in the
enterprise market.” -- Ash Chowdappa, Vice President and General Manager, NetScaler at Citrix