New Releases of EdgeSight and EdgeSight for Load Testing Give Citrix Customers the Best Way to Monitor the Performance of Any Application
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced two new additions to its application performance monitoring product line that give organizations unprecedented monitoring and performance visibility into their application delivery infrastructures. Citrix EdgeSight™ 4.5 is the latest version of the company's application performance monitoring solution, and the all-new Citrix EdgeSight™ for Load Testing is a powerful load- and regression-testing solution that substantially increases IT's ability to deliver a stable and predictable application delivery environment. With these releases Citrix extends the management tool-set for businesses to deliver any type of application - including Windows®-based and web-based applications - with the best performance, security and cost savings to an increasingly distributed user community and across an increasingly complex range of application architectures.
Today's dynamic world presents some serious challenges to the continued productivity and profitability of any growing organization, such as diverse and distributed workforces, rapidly changing IT needs and increased application complexity with the rising popularity of web applications and mash-ups. These variables can make IT infrastructure performance extremely difficult to predict and to control, resulting in a serious need for accurate and granular visibility into the various pieces that make up an organization's IT environment.
"Businesses today are run on the ability of users to easily access applications and IT services from anywhere," said George Hamilton, director, enterprise infrastructure, Yankee Group. "Citrix clearly understands that performance management needs to be tightly integrated with the application delivery infrastructure to provide IT organizations with the tools they need to optimize their systems, reduce costs and provide a better service experience to their user communities."
Citrix EdgeSight and Citrix EdgeSight for Load Testing provide visibility before, during and after applications are integrated into an IT environment. The combination of the EdgeSight solution's real-time performance monitoring with the new simulated performance modeling capabilities of EdgeSight for Load Testing provide IT administrators with a comprehensive set of tools for identifying, prioritizing and addressing application performance problems to ensure peak operation of any application while delivering the best possible experience to end users. Together, Citrix EdgeSight and Citrix EdgeSight for Load Testing offer the best application performance management solution for Citrix application delivery infrastructures including Citrix Presentation Server™, Citrix® NetScaler® and Citrix Desktop Server™ environments.
"As the largest partnership bank in America, ensuring optimal user experience is a critical focus for our IT operations team," said Rick Berk, CIO and partner, Brown Brothers Harriman. "Citrix EdgeSight provides the application visibility we require to identify potential performance issues quickly, understand the context of the problem, and efficiently correct it before our users experience degradation in service."
"IT organizations are judged based on their ability to deliver and ensure a reliable user experience regardless of application or user location," said Lou Shipley, vice president and general manager, Management Systems Group, Citrix Systems. "With these new enhancements and solution sets, the Citrix EdgeSight product line allows companies to both ensure their application delivery systems are architected to deliver superior performance, and to continue to monitor and improve that performance over time at a lower support cost and with optimal control."
"With rapid economic growth, the Middle East is also facing the typical challenges of a dynamic budding environment, such as growing IT needs, an infrastructure struggling to keep up, multiple application and network environments with ever increasing numbers of personnel and offices. Never more has there been the need for accurate tools to proactively monitor, measure and review the actual end-user Quality of Service. The Citrix Edgesight product line provides administrators with the visibility of the user experience to proactively address issues," added Antoine Aguado, Regional Manager, Citrix Middle East.
Today's dynamic world presents some serious challenges to the continued productivity and profitability of any growing organization, such as diverse and distributed workforces, rapidly changing IT needs and increased application complexity with the rising popularity of web applications and mash-ups. These variables can make IT infrastructure performance extremely difficult to predict and to control, resulting in a serious need for accurate and granular visibility into the various pieces that make up an organization's IT environment.
Advanced Testing Capabilities with Citrix EdgeSight for Load Testing Ensure a Reliable Application Delivery Infrastructure
Citrix EdgeSight for Load Testing is the only load- and regression-testing solution designed from the ground up for Citrix Presentation Server and Citrix Desktop Server environments. This new addition to the Citrix EdgeSight product line allows organizations to easily complete performance testing for new environments and rapidly execute regression testing for updates to Windows-based applications and operating systems. This gives IT administrators important visibility into an environment's performance under load, and helps them to accurately predict how new applications and hardware will perform in a given configuration before they move them into production.
Citrix EdgeSight for Load Testing reproduces user interactions with applications, allowing Citrix administrators to simulate load across any combination of applications and geographic locations. This insight into capacity and resource requirements can be used to optimize the existing environment and prevent system instability from ongoing application maintenance and hardware upgrades.
Driven by considerable market demand, the addition of EdgeSight for Load Testing to Citrix's performance monitoring and management portfolio demonstrates the emphasis placed on ensuring Citrix customers have the tools they require to design and manage Citrix application delivery infrastructure solutions.
Citrix EdgeSight 4.5: Real-time Monitoring Enhancements and Deep Integration with Application Delivery Infrastructure Enable Unrivalled Performance Visibility
Citrix EdgeSight™ for Presentation Server 4.5 and Citrix EdgeSight™ for Endpoints 4.5 provide the best user experience and performance monitoring solutions for Citrix application delivery infrastructures by utilizing new instrumentation within the underlying application infrastructure solutions. EdgeSight's seamless integration with Citrix environments provides unparalleled visibility into application performance for easier identification, diagnosis and elimination of potential problems before user productivity is interrupted. Additionally, EdgeSight 4.5 incorporates dramatic improvements to the real-time health and availability monitoring capabilities via an intuitive and configurable performance and alert dashboard with dynamic data presentation and interactive display for click-through functionality.
Citrix also offers user experience visibility for web applications with EdgeSight for NetScaler, an application performance monitoring solution designed for applications delivered by the Citrix NetScaler product line. This fully integrated capability provides transparent performance monitoring of web applications, including fine-grained monitoring of specific web pages and individual application transactions, enabling IT administrators to support service level targets and enable more-precise capacity planning decisions.
Pricing and Availability
Suggested retail pricing for Citrix EdgeSight for Presentation Server 4.5 starts at $75 per concurrent user and suggested retail pricing for Citrix EdgeSight for Endpoints 4.5 starts at $50 per concurrent user, including one year of Citrix Subscription Advantage™. Both will be available through authorized Citrix resellers on June 19, 2007.
Citrix EdgeSight for Loading Testing 2.5 will be available on June 25, 2007, and suggested retail pricing starts at $7,500. Citrix EdgeSight for NetScaler is available as part of the Citrix NetScaler 8.0 Platinum Edition.
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About Citrix EdgeSight
Citrix EdgeSight™ provides the best user experience and performance monitoring solution for Citrix application delivery infrastructures. EdgeSight provides continuous application performance visibility enabling IT managers to proactively identify issues and rapidly determine root-cause of application problems resulting in an improved user experience, reduced cost of support and minimized business disruption. User, application, system and network performance metrics unique to EdgeSight provide unparalleled visibility to the health and availability of IT services across the application delivery infrastructure. EdgeSight solutions are highly scaleable and self configuring allowing for rapid deployment across thousands of users and devices. Utilizing patented distributed database technology, the products automatically discover, monitor and report in a highly granular fashion across every application and user without impacting the performance of the managed systems.
About Citrix EdgeSight for Load Testing
Citrix EdgeSight™ for Load Testing provides the best automated load and performance testing solution for Windows®-based environments using Citrix Presentation Server™ and Citrix Desktop Server™. EdgeSight for Load Testing takes the guess work out of forecasting required resources, reduces maintenance costs associated with regression testing and minimizes the chances of introducing instability through configuration or software changes.
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 180,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 98% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2006 was $1.1 billion.
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