'Nails it' Citrix NetScaler 10 at Microsoft Best of TechEd 2012!

'Nails it' Citrix NetScaler 10 at Microsoft Best of TechEd 2012! -

Hot off the press from Microsoft TechEd North America 2012 last week in Orlando, Florida ... Citrix NetScaler wins 'Best Of' in the networking category with our new technology Tri-Scale NetScaler revolutionary. Tri-Scale presents a completely new vision in the extension and application delivery through a public or private cloud infrastructure. This includes the ability to scale application distribution in three dimensions:

• Scale-up allowing elastic expansion through flexible "pay rise" so you pay for the capacity you need
• scale in simplicity and consolidation through the NetScaler SDX platform. SDX allows to fold up to 40 individual NetScaler instances on a single hardware platform 2U with complete isolation of resources without sacrificing performance
• scale-out through the NetScaler grouping, allowing megabit to terabit lateral expansion , increasing port density and linear really adding capacity at all levels without increasing management complexity

as enterprise applications continue to evolve, both in the way they are architected and deployed, NetScaler Tri-Scale provides the most flexible substrate delivery service in a dynamic application infrastructure change. If you want more detailed information on NetScaler 10, visit the blog to Abhilash / blogs / 2012/04/18 / NetScaler-10-a-historic-release-with-100s-of-new-features

now, it's pretty clear that the message around NetScaler 10 is the scale and flexibility and we achieved important milestones in this area. Keeping with that theme, we have also focused our efforts in the presentation of some key elements of how we scale Microsoft Enterprise Applications ... specifically MS SQL 2012. NetScaler DataStream newly released technology allows us to intelligently analyze traffic base data at the actual SQL query giving new levels of optimization, fault tolerance and visibility MS SQL native traffic. NetScaler 10 adds an important new feature to DataStream which promotes this feature, allowing seamless integration into SQL 2012 "Always On" deployment strategy.

During the interview with the judge TechEd, actually I demonstrated NetScaler DataStream fronting a SharePoint 2010 environment deployed across an availability group back-end SQL 2012. The demonstration focused on three key areas

1. Visibility. Since NetScaler is able to analyze and understand native MS SQL, we used AppFlow and Stream Analytics reports to demonstrate an action from top to bottom for the SQL traffic. Not only this powerful point of view visibility to flush out badly coded applications and potential Open back, it also allows real-time feedback, allowing you to create granular policies to address this type of behavior to fly.
2. Fault Tolerance. The intelligent use of SQL-level monitors, we could demonstrate that NetScaler is able to follow not only the health of the database, but also able to detect any cases of the database are primary or replicas. In SQL 2012, NetScaler can actually take the place of the Windows auditor to provide greater scalability and faster both locally and globally as needed and also provide failover read / write-split feature in the primary databases and replica.
3. Optimization. Connection Thru unloading, multiplexing and caching, we demonstrated the performance of the end user better overall, as well as unloading of the large server, which all contribute to significantly scale up the database layer. SQL Intelligent content switching allows partitioning or sharding database, both of which are significant in scale approaches to database architecture.

The demo really brought light that NetScaler can provide the scale and value added in a MS SQL 2012 environment ... but keep in mind that all these features are valid for all versions of MS SQL 05+.

Best of all, this was done demoed from a native Microsoft test environment that we built in Redmond in recent weeks and were remote access.

I will publish more in the technical detail way around this, so stay tuned for more about NetScaler DataStream and MS SQL 2012!

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