Business Today Requires Optimized Application Delivery
Customers, partners and their distributed workforce rely on the availability, performance and security of mission-critical application services to effectively conduct business. To provide users with the highest level of support, today’s enterprise data centers need to safeguard themselves from
- Application-level attacks
- Application scaling pains
- Database bottlenecks
- Server and network downtime and overloads
- Slow response times
When mission-critical applications such as customer relationship management (CRM), email, enterprise resource planning (ERP), VoIP and others are not optimally delivered, it has severe and immediate impacts on enterprise business. Making sure that critical applications are highly available, perform optimally and are secure is important. But achieving this, while making the applications easy to manage despite inherent infrastructure challenges, is vital for the success of any business.
AppDirector™ and AppXcel™ provide superior Layer 4-7 application optimization which eliminates downtime and service bottlenecks at the data center and affords the best end-user experience everywhere across the wide area network (WAN). The solution uses a host of technologies to provide end-to-end business-smart optimization for web-, SSL- and other IP-based applications and all types of clients such as desktops, PDAs and smart phones.
The combination of AppDirector and AppXcel addresses
Application Availability and Continuity
Radware’s APSolute™ integrated application delivery solution, through its advanced health monitoring, failure bypassing and next-generation global traffic management, monitors all data center resources for true content and application availability. Failures are identified immediately and traffic is automatically redirected to the best performing resources. This results in high application availability (99.999 percent) and full business continuity across local and global backup data centers.
Application Security
APSolute OS provides integrated intrusion prevention and Denial of Service (DoS) protection for enhanced application security, safeguarding all internal and external applications against attack.
- Intrusion prevention immediately blocks viruses, worms and Trojans by inspecting and cleansing all traffic (including secure socket layer [SSL] transactions) to block suspect content and prevent malicious signatures.
- DoS protection provides an additional layer of security by immediately identifying suspect traffic patterns and mitigating DoS/DDoS and SYN attacks.
AppXcel is FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified to meet a higher level of security standards. By providing centralized, tamper-resistant key protection and key management capabilities, this solution reduces FIPS deployment costs by up to 25 percent.
Bandwidth Consumption
APSolute lets network administrators track traffic and make decisions on how every critical network resource should handle different classes of traffic. With APSolute traffic management, network managers can prioritize and optimize all aspects of transaction processing across the data center for unprecedented resource optimization and control.
Traffic can be classified based on any combination of Layer 4-7 parameters including
- Application type
- Content
- Cookies
- Payload information
- Session IDs
- Source and destination IPs
AppDirector and AppXcel fully leverage the power of APSolute OS’s classification and flow management capabilities. This created the industry’s first solution to control data center traffic based on granular application-specific information and business intelligence for business-smart network performance and custom-fit tuning of network behavior.
Network Performance
AppDirector and AppXcel offer a host of technologies to provide end-to-end business-smart acceleration.
- SSL offloading and HTTP compression remove resource-intensive tasks from servers. This reduces application content size to increase processing speeds by up to 500 percent, freeing the application infrastructure to deliver content more efficiently.
- Transaction control protocol (TCP) optimization extends complete control over all TCP sessions on client- and server-side connections. This eliminates lag times, increases session efficiency, improves link bandwidth utilization and boosts application response times across the WAN, while minimizing errors and packet loss.
- The solution's caching features cache on an application-by-application basis. This provides granular content delivery control and heightened server clustering performance while saving on bandwidth.
- IntegratedAPSolute bandwidth management prioritizes traffic (based on applications and users) for granular service-level control, and assured application delivery speeds, matching application performance to business process needs.
- Global traffic redirection and Layer 4-7 switching redirects users to the optimal server in one or multiple data centers. Users are served by the most available resources, providing the fastest response time across multiple data centers to users anytime, anywhere.
Scalability
AppDirector and AppXcel’s modular architecture provides the flexibility and scalability needed to custom-fit application delivery solutions to meet dynamic IT environments and accommodate growing application and user needs. This Radware
® solution lets organizations maximize utilization of existing resources and, if a service is nearing capacity, APSolute Layer 4-7 traffic management enables seamless integration and economical addition of new resources. By offloading SSL and persistence functions (i.e., processor- and server-intensive operations), APSolute eliminates the need to buy expensive hardware to support growing application processing requirements. The result is seamless, cost-effective growth and substantial CAPEX/OPEX savings.
