Citrix and Akamai Collaborate to Enhance Web Application Delivery for Enterprise Customers Worldwide

Citrix Systems, Inc. and Akamai Technologies, Inc. announced an agreement that will make it easier for customers and integration partners to combine each company's web application delivery offerings into integrated solutions that enhance the performance, scalability and security of enterprise web applications. The companies will leverage Citrix's premise-based NetScaler product line and Akamai's cloud-based Web Application Accelerator(SM) service to bring true end-to-end web application delivery to both Internet and enterprise customers worldwide. Citrix and Akamai are working with system integrators to bring customers the following benefits: Faster Web Application Performance, Greater Infrastructure Scalability, Higher Application Availability, and Deeper Application Security. As part of the collaboration between Citrix and Akamai, the companies intend to establish the following: Citrix-Akamai Partner Assistance Program, designed to help integrators establish practices to implement the two solutions together at customer sites, and the Citrix-Akamai Online Community designed to help enterprise customers share best practices, experiences and support questions when using Citrix and Akamai web application delivery solutions together. The two companies will also publish a series of best practices deployment guides showing recommended configuration guidelines to achieve the best possible application performance for various scenarios. http://www.akamai.com/