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Citrix has unveiled NetScaler® 10, a landmark release that brings the elasticity, simplicity and expandability of the cloud to both enterprise and carrier networks. NetScaler 10 features the groundbreaking new Citrix TriScale^TM technology, making it easy for businesses of any size to scale their networks “up, in and out” with ease, just like the world’s largest public clouds. This revolutionary new technology elevates NetScaler beyond traditional service and application delivery controllers, creating the industry’s most advanced cloud networking platform.

NetScaler is already well established as the industry’s leading internet delivery system, touching an estimated 75 percent of internet users each day. The new NetScaler 10 release builds on this leadership to deliver the world’s most advanced “cloud networking platform”, giving customers a single integrated solution that brings the elasticity, simplicity and expandability of the cloud to networks of any size. This powerful combination helps customers deliver public and private cloud services with the best performance, security and reliability to any device.

Introducing NetScaler TriScale Technology

The centerpiece of NetScaler 10 is the product’s new TriScale technology, a revolutionary advancement of the NetScaler architecture that brings multi-dimensional scalability to enterprise datacenters and provider networks. This innovative approach delivers the unique capability toScale Up the performance of a single appliance for greater elasticity, Scale Out to expand capacity by deploying NetScaler appliances in a unified cluster, and Scale In by consolidating multiple networking functions into a single NetScaler service delivery platform to dramatically simplify network infrastructure – all with the same powerful, but simple, management capability.

For the first time, datacenter and cloud managers can provide a comprehensive set of network-based services at virtually unbounded network flexibility and scale. This ensures that network infrastructure always has the capacity and performance to handle the demands of even the most intensive application or service in the most efficient way possible – and that customers never overpay for capacity they don’t need. The new TriScale technology enables customers to:

1. Scale Up elasticity with 5x faster performance on-demand with the simple NetScaler Pay-As-You-Grow software-based licensing model. This eliminates costly over provisioning, avoids regular ‘forklift’ appliance upgrades, and obviates the need to buy expensive chassis-based systems just to reserve empty slots in anticipation of future growth.

2. Scale In consolidation with the multi-function NetScaler SDX platform to simplify datacenter networks, eliminate appliance sprawl and streamline operational management by consolidating up to 40 independently managed devices into a single, easy-to-manage appliance. Unlike alternative solutions, the new NetScaler TriScale technology consolidates multiple appliances with no loss of functionality, and no performance compromises.

3. Scale Out to expand capacity up to 32x by seamlessly adding appliances to existing NetScaler deployments in a “plug-and-play” fashion with TriScale clustering, without the need to stand up redundant high-availability pairs.  For the first time, datacenter managers can build a highly efficient infrastructure that meets current application demand, and then scale incrementally as traffic increases, with the capability to reach unprecedented performance levels exceeding 1 terabit/sec (Tbps).

Resolvity, Inc. a leading provider of on demand IVR and speech recognition in the US, has started its foray into the rapidly growing Indian cloud telephony and IVR market with the launch of VoiceGain ( http://www.voicegain.com).

VoiceGain is a cloud telephony solution for Indian small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Resolvity is financially backed by Nadathur Holdings and Investments, a Private-Equity fund founded by Mr N.S. Raghavan, Co-Founder of Infosys.
“Resolvity’s cloud Speech IVR platform processes over 60 million inbound & outbound customer calls annually for Fortune 1000 companies in the US” said Arun Santhebennur, Co-Founder and CEO of Resolvity Inc., “We are now bringing the same scalable technology platform and years of expertise in state-of-the-art cloud telephony and hosted IVR solutions to the Indian SME market”
“In India, professional telephony and PBX systems for customer call management and CRM have so far been restricted to large enterprises such as banks, telecom and insurance companies who have the capital to procure and integrate such systems with their IT infrastructure” said Sudhir Shenoy, Senior Vice President, Resolvity India “VoiceGain will now allow SME businesses to leverage the same telephony capabilities as a large corporate and allow them to serve their prospects and customers professionally 24×7 on a pay-per-use model”
VoiceGain is a cloud telephony solution that allows Indian SME enterprises to store, manage and track telephone sales inquiries and leads. It allows sales inquiries to be routed real time to their field sales personnel on their mobile phone – anytime, anywhere. It also helps such organizations to offer customer support with a virtual call centre technology infrastructure on a pay-per-use model.

The private cloud market in India is set to take off in a big with the launch of Microsoft System Center 2012, that integrates eight separate component products into one unified solution, streamlining installation and reducing the time it takes to deploy from days down to hours.

“IT leaders tell me that private cloud computing promises to help them focus on innovation over maintenance, to streamline costs and to respond to the need for IT speed,” Nadella said. “We are delivering on that promise today. With System Center 2012, customers can move beyond the industry hype and speculation, and progress into the here and now of private cloud.”

Srikanth Karnakota, Director, Server and Tools Business, Microsoft India commented on this announcement: “System Centre 2012 brings in new and unique capabilities intended to help IT managers/customers with self-service as one of the automated functions that distinguishes a private cloud from just another data center server cluster apart from/along with automating the delivery via System center orchestrator, improved management tools for the datacenter and Cloud, native support for any hypervisor including Microsoft Hyper V, and improved base service control  for the infrastructure.”

The number of product versions has also been simplified, so customers will be able to choose between the Standard and Datacenter editions of the product, based on their virtualization requirements. And because System Center 2012 Datacenter edition licensing covers unlimited virtual machines, customers can continually grow their private clouds without additional licensing costs for virtualizing their infrastructure and applications.