Citrix Systems Research Report Sample

This research shifts the attention from basic load-balancing features to application delivery features to aid in the deployment and delivery of applications. Networking organizations are missing significant opportunities to increase application performance and user experience by ignoring this fundamental market shift.

Key Findings

• Enterprises are still focused on load balancing.
• There is little cooperation between networking and application teams on a holistic approach for application deployment.
• Properly deployed application delivery controllers can improve application performance and security, increase the efficiency of data center infrastructure, and assist the deployment of the virtualized data center.

Recommendations

• Network architects must shift attention and resources away from Layer 3 packet delivery networks and basic load balancing to application delivery networks.
• Enterprises must start building specialized expertise around application delivery.