(Source: Business Wire)Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) today announced the addition of two new midrange appliances to its Citrix® NetScaler® MPX family of application networking systems. Leveraging the same high-performance NetScaler architecture already powering the world's largest enterprise data centers, cloud providers and websites, the new NetScaler MPX 10500 and NetScaler MPX 12500 models bring the ideal blend of scalability and performance to enterprise customers, without the high cost of competing solutions. With the addition of these two new midrange models, Citrix now delivers the industry's most comprehensive and cost-effective product line -- scaling from small, single application virtual appliances to massive, high-end systems designed to power the world's busiest websites. As a result, enterprise customers are no longer forced to choose between performance and functionality when building their web application delivery infrastructure.

The new midrange NetScaler MPX solutions provide between 5 and 8 Gbps HTTP performance with support for all NetScaler features, including L4-7 load balancing, application acceleration, server offload, application firewall security and more. In addition to high-performance and advanced features, the unique NetScaler MPX architecture drives the lowest power consumption in its class: nearly 50 percent more efficient than competitive offerings. The new NetScaler MPX appliances can also be deployed alongside NetScaler VPX virtual appliances, enabling next-generation datacenter architectures that marry the performance of hardware appliances with the agility and flexibility of software-based virtual appliances (see "Citrix NetScaler Goes Virtual").

"Enterprise web applications are becoming far more complex and demanding, but the price customers pay to deliver those applications with the best performance, security and reliability shouldn't have to increase at the same rate," said Klaus Oestermann, group vice president and general manager, NetScaler Product Group at Citrix Systems."Our new midrange MPX appliances are built to deliver web applications with the performance customers expect from NetScaler, but at a price that is within reach of everyone."

NetScaler MPX Architecture

The NetScaler MPX architecture incorporates advanced, multi-core Intel processors and runs NetScaler nCore technology to process multiple complex operations on each application workload in parallel at multi-gigabit speeds. Leveraging multiple CPU cores enables numerous web application delivery features to run concurrently with no significant impact on performance.