Case Study: Citrix Systems achieves submillisecond test latency and faster time-to-market with NetApp All Flash FAS (FlexPod)

Citrix Systems Enhances Mobile Application Delivery in a Flash

Citrix, a global leader in virtual application delivery serving more than 300,000 customers, needed to accelerate its move to DevOps by automating large-scale software testing. Manual testing and limited infrastructure—insufficient CPU and storage I/O—kept tests slow and unreliable, preventing the company from running many tests in parallel and meeting aggressive release schedules.

Citrix deployed a FlexPod Data Center with NetApp All Flash FAS (clustered Data ONTAP) to deliver submillisecond storage latency and built-in deduplication. The result: latency dropped from 2–5 ms to consistently <0.5 ms, test completion time fell by 20–30%, teams can run up to 300 parallel tests, and storage needs were reduced by roughly 70–80%, speeding time to market and improving test reliability.

Citrix Systems

Satish Sambandham

Senior Manager, Product Development