[7] The product is aimed at business customers and it performs tasks such as traffic optimization, L4-L7 load balancing,[8] and web app acceleration[7][9] while maintaining data security.

[10] Additionally, NetScaler's logs of network activity feed into Citrix's cloud-based analytics service and are used to analyze and identify security risks.

[6] NetScaler BLX, a bare metal solution that can run on top of any Linux, while offering line-rate performance.

You can use this cloud solution to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot the entire global application delivery infrastructure from a single, unified, and centralized cloud-based console.

1997 - Entrepreneur Michel K. Susai founded NetScaler December 1st, 1997 in San Jose, California.

[citation needed] He created NetScaler as a solution for reducing infrastructure during the growth of the Internet in the late 1990s.

By 2005, NetScaler estimated 75 percent of Internet users used its systems through clients including Google and Amazon.

[9] 2006 – NetScaler offers the 11000 series systems, the most successful and ubiquitous HW Load Balancer of its time.

nCore allowed NetScaler to take advantage of the new Intel multicore chips to continue to increase performance.

The reviewer noted that it was easy to set up and administer, and provided performance improvements in load balancing and Web application speed.

[24] GCN wrote in 2011 that NetScaler is "much more than a load balancer; it’s really an all-in-one Web application delivery system".

[11] As of December 2016[update], annual net revenue from sales of NetScaler products and services was US$782,875,000.