Following Citrix's roadmap of enabling a fully integrated environment for end users, where any corporate application can be accessed from any device at any time, the company's CEO Mark Templeton used his keynote address at the company's annual Synergy conference in San Francisco to unveil a slew of new products, all aimed toward achieving this vision.

Citrix developed two of the new products to create a seamless connection between a client's corporate data center and public clouds by vendors like Amazon, Rackspace or Salesforce.com.

One of them is NetScaler Cloud Gateway, which Templeton called the "world's first front door to the data center". The product enables aggregation, orchestration and delivery of Software-as-a-Service, web-based and Windows applications from a single location.

The Gateway works with Citrix Receiver ÔÇô the company's software client that provides access to desktops, applications, documents and IT services from any device. The product supports all Receiver versions.

Examples of things one can do with the Gateway are provisioning of SaaS licenses, monitoring of license utilization and management of applications either sitting in a public cloud or in the corporate data center.

Citrix expects to make the Gateway available in the third quarter of 2011.

Another product that bridges the cloud and the data center Templeton introduced at Synergy was the NetScaler Cloud Bridge, which is expected to become available in June.

"It's going to make your private cloud look infinite in its capacity and infinite in its elasticity," he said about the Cloud Bridge.

The product allows for a single application to use resources deployed on a variety of infrastructures. A mission-critical application, for example, can use public-cloud compute capacity, while drawing on a database in the enterprise data center.

"You can keep your data in your private cloud and put all the compute out in the public cloud," Templeton said.

The Cloud Bridge is enabled by combining L4-7 traffic management capabilities of Citrix's NetScaler with four network services: seamless network, secured tunnel, optimized access and user transparency.

Seamless network is achieved by using L2 network bridging, which makes the cloud network a "natural extension" of the existing L2 network in the enterprise, which enables easy movement of resources to the cloud without having to re-architect applications.