A top provider of innovative Java and .Net application platform, GigaSpaces has officially announced its integration with yet another technology giant, Citrix. To offer an open and elastic cloud-enable form is the chief driver of this partnership. Complete integration, optimization and improvement of elastic application will be provided as GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) fuses Citrix OpenCloud virtualization and networking infrastructure.

While this phase may be hyped and dubbed as the evolutionary turning to revolutionary solutions, no additional re-writing and re-architecting costs are incurred. Open application framework will be created with the integration of  GigaSpaces XAP for web, application, and data virtualization, Citrix NetScaler for network virtualization and Citrix XenServer. Organizations are guaranteed to enjoy high performance and dynamic scalability with the upgrade of their data centers and creation of hybrid-data center combos.

“Our joint customers will benefit from the combined years of experience that Citrix and GigaSpaces offer in providing the best hardware and software platforms for flexible application deployment,” GigaSpaces CEO Zeev Bikowsky explains during the announcement. “With the combination of Citrix and GigaSpaces technologies, companies can bring IT operations to the future without severing their ties to the past.”

The merger opens the door for the widest support to existing standards and technologies. Moreover, it extends the system’s capability to gracefully handle growing amounts of work and permits applications to run within public and private clouds and the data hub with nominal code update.

This integration is already now available and identified to be Citrix Ready — a program that aids a customer in verifying which external solutions are suggested to improve virtualization, networking capabilities and cloud computing solutions from Citrix. Existing users of NetScaler, XenServer or XAP will have no problems integrating these components. However, neophytes will experience more ease in deploying and operating new application when they add this new solution to their current infrastructure.

The partnership with Citrix comes about a week after GigaSpaces announced its tie-up with Cisco.  Read here for more info on Citrix and Cisco’s own relationship.