June 12, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Web hosting provider Hostworks (http://www.hostworks.com.au/) has partnered with Citrix, the company announced today. Citrix NetScaler is designed to optimize the delivery of web applications, improving performance and web server capacity while increasing security. Hostworks’ deployment of the Citrix NetScaler 8.0 web application accelerator is designed to meet a record demand for data traffic caused by online content moving to video. According to Hostworks’ Managing Director Mr. Marty Gauvin, the company’s partnership with Citrix means it will introduce the NetScaler technology to the Australian managed services market.
“Hostworks is deploying Citrix NetScaler 8.0 for ninemsn as it sees its online content types move towards video, with the consequence of data traffic levels going through the roof,” suggested Mr. Gauvin. “NetScaler provides more head room as an online presence grows and smoothes out some of the bumps. Hostworks is looking at how we can leverage our skills and resources by providing the advantages of NetScaler to other customers who can benefit from it.”
“Hostworks will buy Citrix NetScaler 8.0 boxes and provide them to its customers as a managed service,” explained Mr. Dean Vaughan, Citrix Systems Channel Development Manager Australia-New Zealand. “For Citrix, partners like Hostworks offer a route-to-market that differs from traditional on-selling. Hostworks allows us to reach customers who can benefit from having their own NetScaler boxes with their own rules as part of large web-based application deployments. We are certainly expecting that Hostworks is a strong route to market for us with NetScaler. We believe Hostworks will bring us opportunities that we would not know about without its assistance.”
Hostworks is “the Asia-Pacific leader in critical enterprise application outsourcing, delivering business systems with guaranteed availability”. The company’s customers include Codan, Compass Group, Network Ten, News Digital Media, ninemsn, realestate.com.au, SBS, SEEK, Southern Cross View and Wotif.com. Citrix is a leader in application delivery infrastructure catering for more than 180,000 organizations worldwide.
