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AppDirector

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Key Features and Benefits

Availability


Smart Health Monitoring and Failure Detection  
  • Quickly identifies failures at any point along the application or transaction path and reacts proactively
  • Hundreds of pre-defined health checks are instantly accessible (after installation), ensuring quick server/application availability and lowering total cost of ownership

Stateful Persistency  
  • Prevents application session disruptions
  • Ensures transaction completion

High Availability with Real-time Failure Bypassing  
  • AppDirector’s extensive health monitoring capabilities enables real-time detection of any faulty AppXcel™ service, automatically bypassing it and switching traffic to available AppXcel service platform and guaranteeing full availability of all AppXcel’s service engines

Device Redundancy: Either Active-active or Active-passive  
  • Prevents the introduction of a single point of failure
  • Protects hardware investment and lowers total cost of ownership
 

Security


Integrated IPS Protection  
  • Protects a wide range of applications from malicious exploits, infiltration by worms and other threats, keeping servers, databases and applications up and running, even when under attack
  • 1500 attack signatures out-of-box for wide application protection
  • Bandwidth management mechanism can squelch malicious traffic to ensure availability for critical applications
  • 24×7 Security Operations Center (SOC) provides subscribers with automated security updates

Patented, Integrated Behavioral DoS Protection  
  • Protects applications and servers from known and zero-day DoS attacks with behavior-based technology (18 seconds from attack detection to attack mitigation)

Security Regulatory Compliance  
  • The only application front-end solution with Common Criteria Level 3 certification
   

Application Delivery


Breakthrough Performance   
  • Application delivery performance leadership at all throughput levels
  • State-of-the-art hardware architecture

On-demand Throughput and Service Scalability   
  • Scalable, on-demand throughput to meet business growth
  • Easily add application services to meet new or changing application and infrastructure requirements
  • Ready-made for advanced application-aware services without compromising performance (e.g. Application Performance Monitoring, Bandwidth Management, Intrusion Prevention, Denial of Service protection)

Best Investment Protection   
  • Eliminates forklift upgrades – project costs associated with testing, staging, reinstalling and debugging are removed
  • Hassle-free upgrade – configuration changes are not required during upgrade, resulting in no downtime
  • Extends product life – use of same platform significantly lowers total cost of ownership (TCO)

Operations Simplicity   
  • Improved manageability and easy maintenance
  • Standard, unified platform at all throughput levels – reduces operations and training overhead, configuration diversity and need for spare units

Real-time Traffic Redirection  
  • Automatically redirects traffic to best available instances, servers and farms in the data center or between redundant sites for optimal user experience
  • Optimizes the use of existing applications and server resources and cost effectively scales resources, fully protecting server investment

Global Load Balancing  
  • Solves the problems of DNS-only solutions for the creation of real global networks with maximum uptime and optimized service delivery
  • Guarantees transaction completion and fast response times across multiple data centers to support business continuity and disaster recovery plans
  • Patented proximity and load measurement for best site selection

Variety of Bandwidth Management and Traffic-shaping Capabilities  
  • Aligns bandwidth usage to meet business objectives
  • Provides administrators with the necessary tools to streamline enforcement of bandwidth management policies
  • Guarantees bandwidth allocation for latency-sensitive and mission-critical applications, as well as premium users, through the use of QoS algorithms