Citrix NetScaler provides three key capabilities for optimizing web applications and disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI):
1. It offers world-class load balancing, intelligent health monitoring, caching, compression, and offloading of connections and SSL processing to improve performance, availability, and security of web applications.
2. For VDI, it maintains high availability of virtual desktops and applications through features like source IP stickiness, cookie persistence, and intelligent server health checking.
3. NetScaler also enables disaster recovery and business continuity of virtual desktops and applications through capabilities like global server load balancing and intelligent traffic steering to backup sites.