Citrix and CA Technologies sign Agreement

Citrix and CA Technologies have agreed to enable integration of the Citrix NetScaler SDX service delivery networking platform with CA SiteMinder. This planned integration will consolidate the capabilities of CA SiteMinder Secure Proxy Server (SPS) onto the NetScaler appliance, creating a unique solution for customers that will solve the problem of device, application and information diversity, while simplifying user authentication and providing secure, high-performance access.

“The increase in mobile workers and BYOD deployments has added significant complexity to secure user access to critical corporate information. Integrating Citrix NetScaler and CA SiteMinder on NetScaler SDX lowers the total cost of ownership for the combined technologies and assures fast, robust and secure policy administration. We are extremely pleased to be partnering with CA Technologies to deliver these capabilities to our customers,” said Sunil Potti, Vice-President & General Manager, NetScaler Product Group, Citrix.

With the solution from Citrix and CA Technologies that will be available later this year, enterprise IT will be able to consolidate hosting of the federated identity and SSO functions, VPN, application acceleration, application firewalling and load balancing into the NetScaler SDX platform without having to deploy discrete physical and virtual devices.  As businesses embrace flexible, multifunction network policy engines to improve performance and operational efficiency, this integration of best-in-class policy delivery, identity and access management keeps information delivery flexible and economical. And as businesses increasingly embrace cloud architectures, delivering the above policy control in a hardened, multi-tenant SDX platform will enable enterprises to have fine-grained control of virtualized apps, desktops and mobile services, allowing IT to cater to individual business unit needs without compromising on compliance.