Data Center Consolidation
Gain Business Agility with a Flexible IT Infrastructure
It used to be that data center consolidations were motivated by the desire to cut costs. Then complying with regulatory pressures became an important influence in driving servers from remote sites to the data center.
These considerations are still important, but today's data center consolidation initiatives are more about improving business agility and aligning strategic IT infrastructure investments with business imperatives.
By putting a premium on speed/performance and flexibility, new consolidated data centers are searching for a resilient application delivery architecture that provides:
- Running multiple virtual ADC instances on the same physical unit with complete fault, network, and management isolation
- 24×365 availability
- End-to-end performance monitoring and application optimization
- Flexibility to accommodate dynamically changing business and application requirements
For IT organizations running consolidated data centers, Radware's architectural approach provides a complete application delivery solution. Using this solution, IT organizations can advance and contribute to a variety of business objectives by improving business agility in a number of ways.
ADC Virtualization
ADC-VX
™ is the industry first ADC Hypervisor that runs multiple virtual ADC instances on a dedicated ADC hardware, Radware's OnDemand Switch platforms. ADC-VX is designed from the ground up to enable organizations to consolidate their ADC hardware devices without compromising resiliency or performance predictability of their ADC services -- resulting in significant savings of hardware costs and operational expenses. ADC-VX provides the agility and the simplicity that is required in the dynamic, ever-changing virtualized data center, to drive faster deployment of new services and better alignment of ADC services with frequent configuration changes.
Key benefits of Radware's ADC-VX:
Significant CAPEX and OPEX reduction via ADC consolidation
- Less ADC hardware required to support the ADC requirements
- Less switch ports and less cabling are required to handle the traffic
- Reduction of real estate, power, and cooling OPEX
- Reduction of product Service costs
Risk free path to ADC virtualization with
- Complete Fault Isolation
- Network Isolation
- Management Isolation
- Resource guaranty and performance predictability
Increased business agility in the Virtualized data center through:
- Instant provisioning
- On demand scalability
- Simplified resource abstraction
- Central management
Intelligent Traffic Classification and Flow Management
The
APSolute™ product suite, is built around a powerful business-smart traffic classification and flow management engine.
APSolute OS optimizes data center resources and ensures the best user experience through end-to-end optimization by providing
- Consistent response times for critical tasks
- Secure access to remote data and other resources
- Reliable performance and availability with guaranteed transaction completion
Business-smart local and global traffic re-direction ensures maximum uptime and optimized service delivery for globally dispersed users, redirecting traffic to the best local or global resource so end users receive the fastest possible response time.
Application-smart Acceleration
To support a broad set of application delivery services, including acceleration for web-based, SSL-based applications and all types of clients, Radware's open service architecture aligns server infrastructure operations with
application delivery requirements to eliminate
- Traffic surges
- Server bottlenecks
- Connectivity disconnects
- Downtime
Integrated Security Services
An integrated set of services addresses application-level and networking-level
security. These services protect data center resources and applications against both internal and external attacks before they can impact business productivity. APSolute OS is the only application delivery solution that addresses information security and privacy by
- Offloading high-throughput SSL encryption from servers
- Inspecting encrypted traffic so that network security devices aren't blinded
- Securing web and web services
APSolute OS intrusion prevention also immediately blocks viruses, worms, and Trojans, inspecting and cleansing all traffic (including Secure Socket Layer [SSL] transactions) to block suspect content and prevent malicious signatures.
Service Level Management
By tightly coupling APSolute OS with Radware's management software, network managers can now provide service-level management and ensure end-user quality of experience (QoE). Managers can take the proactive steps necessary to ensure optimal alignment of network behavior because Radware's software environment is capable of providing end-to-end visibility for all services and transactions. APSolute Vision's statistics and reporting features enable effective
- Troubleshooting
- Trend analysis
- Forensics
- Resource planning