Summary: In episode 274, Douglas Brown interviews Donna Johnson, Director of Product Marketing for NetScaler SD-WAN at Citrix Douglas and Donna discusses Citrix’s NetScaler SD-WAN solution. About NetScaler SD-WAN NetScaler SD-WAN increases the performance and reliability of traditional enterprise applications, SaaS applications and virtual desktops over any network while simplifying the branch network. Businesses rely on branch offices or remote employees to serve customers, to be near partners and suppliers and to expand into new markets. As desktop virtualization increases and applications move to the cloud, IT managers face the challenge of providing applications reliably and without a performance penalty to branch and mobile users. Now enterprises can use NetScaler SD-WAN to software define their WAN, rendering it more scalable, cost-effective and ready to connect to the cloud, while ensuring excellent application performance. At the same time, NetScaler SD-WAN can help you to effectively and economically simplify the branch network with integrated routing, firewall, and WAN optimization capabilities. Why NetScaler SD-WAN • Maintain high performance for mission critical applications even when a network link fails • Improve the virtual desktop experience to branch-office and mobile users and accelerate traditional enterprise applications • Expand WAN capacity with low-cost broadband connections, while maintaining MPLS-level quality and reliability • Support cloud migration with integrated security to protect enterprise data • Simplify IT with integrated routing, firewall and WAN Optimization to reduce network footprint • Secure data across the WAN and to the cloud with strong encryption, application level security policies and data segmentation • Gain visibility into application delivery in order to proactively manage the user experience Learn more at: https://www.citrix.com/products/netscaler-sd-wan/ About Donna Johnson Donna Johnson is currently Director of Product Marketing for NetScaler SD-WAN at Citrix. Throughout her career, Donna has worked with network management and network infrastructure products, holding positions of engineering management, product management and product marketing at companies such as Objective Systems Integrators and Dorado Software. Most recently, she was Director of Products with Talari Networks where she helped define the emerging category of software defined WANs. Donna graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in Electrical Engineering. Links to all her blogs here: https://www.citrix.com/blogs/author/donnaj/ About Douglas A. Brown Douglas Brown is the Founder and President of DABCC, Inc. Doug has more than 20 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and server based computing technologies and markets. DABCC is the first and most visited website dedicated to all elements of virtualization and features news and resources. Prior to DABCC, Doug worked at Citrix Systems, Inc. as a Senior Systems Engineer from 2001 to 2004 where he developed the leading Citrix deployment system, “Methodology in a Box”, which has more than a million users. Additionally, his peers and management at Citrix named Doug Systems Engineer of the Year in 2002. From 2005 to 2016, Doug was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft Corporation for his contributions to the industry. He has also been acknowledged with the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) and VMware vEXPERT awards for his continued support in the IT community. Doug speaks at leading industry events and has been a prolific author over the past 20 years. Mr. Brown is also host of the #1 rated virtualization and cloud podcast show, DABCC Radio and DABCC TV. Follow Douglas on Twitter at http://twitter.com/douglasabrown Connect on LinkedIn here, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dabcc
