Introduction
In today’s hyper-connected world, where cybersecurity landscape and multi-cloud architectures evolve at breakneck speed, organizations must continuously modernize infrastructure to stay ahead of emerging threats and performance demands. At the same time, businesses across every industry are under intense pressure to reduce CAPEX, simplify operations, and control costs without sacrificing performance or reliability.
Radware introduced a new innovative way to secure your delivered applications. We call it “Alteon Protect”. Alteon Protect solution is an industry-leading cloud application security solution integrated into Alteon ADC for all deployment models that also offers shifting from fixed, upfront costs ADC model. Alteon Protect offers a flexible subscription consumption model that includes a unique “Evergreen” benefit allowing refreshing to the latest appliance model at no extra charge after the initial 3 years term. “Alteon Protect” enables organizations unlock the full security service suite Radware application security cloud has to offer, together with predictable budgeting, on-demand scalability, and the ability to deploy ADC capabilities wherever they’re needed. This model delivers agility and ongoing access to the latest innovations and helps IT teams stay agile while managing cost and risk.
Alteon Protect
As organizations move more applications to the cloud, many still rely on on-premises or private cloud environments for critical workloads. Securing applications across these environments can be challenging.
Traditional on-premises security solutions often require specialized expertise and are limited by the compute capacity of the appliance, making it difficult to keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving cyber threats. Cloud-based security services offer scalability, but they may require sharing private SSL keys or redirecting traffic through external infrastructure which results in introducing latency and potential security concerns.
Alteon Protect delivers the best of both worlds. This cloud-powered application security solution works directly with your on-premises Alteon platform, providing advanced protection without sacrificing performance or control. It enables consistent security across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, thus keeping your applications protected wherever they run.
In addition, as threats evolve and rest assured, in the AI realm, they will evolve, having cloud-powered protection allows the organization to quickly add cloud protections without replacing or amending the ADC infrastructure. Moreover, your existing protection may need fast update to keep up with the current threat, with Alteon protect, those adjustments will be deployed in the cloud without any change to your ADC infrastructure, keeping your updates and upgrade maintenance window to minimal and keeping your application running security at all time.
Cost predictability
Transitioning to Alteon Protect’s annual subscription model replaces large, infrequent CapEx purchases with a stable OpEx structure. This gives teams a predictable yearly cost instead of dealing with significant upfront investments or irregular hardware refresh cycles. The subscription model also removes the common issue of delaying ADC upgrades due to budget constraints, allowing organizations to maintain current hardware and software versions as part of the recurring fee. With expenses distributed evenly over time, budget approval processes are simpler, cash flow is steadier, and the likelihood of operating outdated ADC appliances is reduced. Overall, shifting ADC spending from CapEx to OpEx improves cost planning and provides greater flexibility to adjust infrastructure investments as operational requirements change.
Evergreen - Future Proofing with Radware’s Subscription Model
One of the most compelling advantages of Alteon Protect subscription model for network appliances is the flexibility it delivers throughout the lifecycle of the deployment. Rather than being locked into a static ADC appliance purchase that depreciates over time, customers benefit from an Alteon Protect “Evergreen” approach that keeps their Alteon infrastructure aligned with evolving performance and business requirements. After the initial three-year contract period, organizations can seamlessly replace their existing Alteon appliance with the latest equivalent model (if such an appliance exists) at the same predictable annual cost they are already paying, ensuring they always run on current technology without enduring costly rip-and-replace cycles. By eliminating significant sunk costs and bypassing lengthy capital expenditure approval processes, this model empowers IT teams to adapt more rapidly to change.
Salability and future growth
Scalability ensures the ADC can accommodate growing data loads and adapt to changing demands efficiently. Alteon Protect subscription license is the key to achieving ADC scalability. With full price purchased ADCs, appliance organizations may struggle to keep up with the growing demands placed on modern networks. When network traffic increases or new services are introduced, organizations often face the costly and disruptive process of replacing existing hardware with higher-capacity devices.
The Alteon Protect subscription license eliminates these challenges. If operational demands grow or application workloads require more throughput, they also have the option to upgrade to a higher-performance Alteon model with only a modest adjustment in annual fees. This means scaling up performance when needed and avoiding the inefficiencies of outdated hardware that can slow innovation. For example, if the organization has Alteon D-6300M Protect with 90G L4 Throughput and now there is a need for 200G L4 Throughput. He can simply replace the Alteon D-6300M Protect with Alteon D-line 7700 Protect to meet the new requirements. This scalability ensures that network resources are optimally utilized, and organizations can scale their infrastructure in a gradual and cost-effective manner.
Six Months Overlap Support for Hassle-Free Transitions
Radware further enhances the future-proofing value by offering six months of overlap support at no additional cost when customers upgrade after three years. During this period, both the existing and new appliances are fully supported, ensuring a smooth and risk-free transition with uninterrupted protection.
Summary
In a world where digital experiences define business success, Radware’s Alteon Protect subscription with Evergreen delivers best security coupled with agility modern organizations need to stay ahead.
Alteon protect allows organizations to secure their applications without the limits of local compute resources. Today, with AI application threat materialize by the hour, it’s obvious that local compute resources that were able to cope with standard Web and API threats are no longer adequate to provide enough protective shield against AI threats. Moreover, adding a layer of cloud protection allows fast updates to address evolving new and existing threats.
An attractive subscription model, coupled with the Evergreen advantage, customers can refresh or upgrade their Alteon platform every three years at the same stable annual cost, unlocking continuous innovation, effortless scalability, and futureproof performance.
Alteon Protect empowers organizations to stay modern, stay secure, and stay ahead—year after year.
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