Cisco thinks Citrix is playing a pu--y cry-baby against Avi!
“Cisco will resell the Avi Vantage Platform in markets around the world, and Avi closely integrates with Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Cisco’s intent-based networking and automation technology for the data center. The Avi Vantage Platform delivers application services including a software load balancer, a web application firewall, and an elastic service mesh for container-based applications”
Citrix is great at finding excuses. Netscaler business has been toast after Sunil and Klaus left.
F5 got all the business after Cisco killed ACE. Citrix fumbled the opportunity.
Cisco does not need Citrix for anything. A while back Cisco was in that space and decided to leave it for what ever reason. During that time if customers wanted a fancy LB they would send the leads to us. What did we do with this freebie ? Not a damn thing. We barely made scratch in this market. Go back and look at our numbers if you don't believe me. On the other hand Cisco has continued to grow. They closed out last year at over 40 billion. Citrix has been trying for almost the 6 years now to hit the 3 billion mark and failed time and time again. Citrix had its chance. Now Cisco is going to show us how it's done.
This shows that Cisco doesn’t really care about Citrix. They just use Citrix for publicity when it suits them.
If you ask MarkT, Amit Pandey would be a better CEO for Citrix. Henshall is a bean counter