At the Interop 2009 conference in Las Vegas, Citrix Systems, Inc. unveiled a groundbreaking new nCore™ technology that allows its high-end Citrix® NetScaler® appliances to deliver rich Web 2.0 applications and cloud services for up to 7x more users with no new hardware investments required. By upgrading their existing NetScaler appliances to the new nCore powered software, Citrix customers can quickly unlock all the power of the multi-core Intel® processors that power NetScaler® MPX™ hardware appliances, allowing them to run far more web acceleration and security functions in parallel. This flexible software-based approach to scalability stands in stark contrast to traditional networking vendors who rely on proprietary ASIC-based processors and custom networking hardware, making it difficult for them to keep pace with the rapid changes in today’s web and cloud computing architectures without “forklift” hardware upgrades.
NetScaler nCore is a groundbreaking new technology engineered specifically to optimize next-generation web applications and services in software by leveraging the underlying capabilities of general purpose multi-core hardware. NetScaler MPX appliances powered by nCore are capable of processing multiple complex operations on each application workload in parallel, while maintaining multi-gigabit performance and exceptionally low application latencies to ensure the best user experience. Leveraging the ultra-fast packet engine in NetScaler across multiple CPU cores brings unmatched scalability and performance for optimizing a wide range of application delivery services and workloads.
