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Citrix's CloudBridge

Citrix's big announcement at this year's Interop wasn't so much focused on a new product offering, but on a unique blending of two products it already has.

The marriage was between Citrix's CloudBridge product -- a cloud connectivity solution for ensuring secure connections between enterprise data centers and public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure -- and Branch Repeater, which optimizes PC applications for virtualized desktops. According to Citrix, the resulting product is essentially a new version of CloudBridge that includes WAN optimization functionality and will help customers deliver applications from any cloud service, all while ensuring a seamless transition from legacy PC apps.