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Simplifying Complexity: A Better Approach to Cloud App Delivery

Written by Grant Lang | Jun 6, 2025 12:49:51 AM

Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud each offer native networking and security tools, but as many ANZ businesses discover, these tools often fall short when it comes to managing complexity, maintaining visibility and keeping costs under control.

This is where NetScaler comes into its own.

NetScaler helps IT teams simplify cloud adoption, improve performance and security and unify operations across multiple environments, without blowing the budget or locking themselves into a single hyperscaler’s ecosystem.

One Platform Across On-Prem, Azure, AWS & GCP

Many ANZ businesses are running a mix of environments: traditional data centres, Microsoft 365, some workloads in AWS or Azure, and DR or test environments elsewhere. With each hyperscaler offering different tools for traffic management, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and SSL offloading, maintaining consistency becomes a nightmare.

NetScaler provides a single platform for application delivery, load balancing and security across all your environments—on-prem or cloud.

This means:

  • Less time managing multiple tools
  • Faster troubleshooting and easier migration between clouds
  • A consistent experience for end users and IT alike

Avoid Lock-In and Keep Your Options Open

Native tools work great - until you want to move. ANZ businesses often face challenges when shifting workloads from Azure to AWS (or vice versa) or building DR in a secondary cloud.

NetScaler gives you true cloud portability with a consistent codebase across all clouds.

That translates to:

  • Flexibility to choose the right cloud for each workload
  • Avoiding the cost and effort of retooling for every platform
  • Protecting your cloud strategy from long-term vendor lock-in

Built-In Security Without Extra Cost Layers

Cybersecurity remains a top concern in ANZ, especially with tightening regulatory requirements and increasing ransomware attacks.

While public clouds offer their own security tools, many of the advanced features are locked behind premium SKUs or require third-party add-ons.

NetScaler includes enterprise-grade security out of the box:

  • Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • DDoS and bot protection
  • Zero-touch SSL certificate lifecycle management

It’s a cost-effective way to harden your environment, especially useful for ANZ mid-sized organisations without large security teams.

Deep Visibility and Centralised Control

Most native cloud tools give you basic metrics and alerts, but not the end-to-end visibility needed to pinpoint user experience issues or performance bottlenecks, especially in a hybrid environment.

NetScaler offers:

  • Centralised observability across all clouds and data centres
  • Detailed analytics on traffic flow, threats, latency, and performance
  • Integration with tools like Splunk, Elastic, and Prometheus

For mid-sized IT teams, this means fewer blind spots, faster issue resolution, and better control without needing a big monitoring stack.

DevOps and Automation Built In

ANZ organisations are increasingly embracing DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code to improve agility. But native cloud networking tools can be inconsistent when automating across platforms.

NetScaler is DevOps-ready, offering:

  • Support for Terraform, Ansible and CI/CD tools
  • Full API access to automate policy deployment and configuration
  • Hands-free SSL certificate management

This helps lean IT teams do more with less, standardise across environments and support faster releases without compromising stability.

Predictable Costs and Better ROI

One of the biggest frustrations for ANZ businesses is managing unpredictable cloud costs, especially when it comes to consumption-based tools like Azure Front Door, AWS WAF or GCP Load Balancer.

NetScaler simplifies this with fixed-cost licensing, especially when bundled with Citrix Universal Hybrid Multi-Cloud (UHMC):

  • No per-request or per-rule billing surprises
  • One license across all your clouds and sites
  • More value for your budget, especially as traffic scales

Local Support from CXANZ and Our ANZ Partner Network

Transitioning to a secure, efficient cloud app delivery strategy doesn’t have to be complex.

CXANZ, Citrix‘s ANZ strategic partner, works hand-in-hand with a trusted network of ANZ partners to help customers at every stage of their journey.

Whether you need help with strategy, design, implementation or ongoing support, the CXANZ team and our partners are ready to assist with:

  • Cloud and hybrid architecture design
  • NetScaler deployment and optimisation
  • Security best practices across Azure, AWS and GCP
  • Automation and integration into DevOps workflows
  • Ongoing support, health checks, and performance tuning

With deep local knowledge and decades of Citrix expertise, CXANZ ensures ANZ mid-sized businesses can confidently embrace the cloud with the right tools, the right support and no surprises.

Ready to simplify and secure your cloud app delivery?

Talk to the CXANZ team or your preferred Citrix partner today to explore how NetScaler can modernise your infrastructure and unlock the full potential of multi-cloud.