Application delivery solutions provider Radware has announced the next phase of its Virtual Application Delivery Infrastructure (VADI) strategy featuring new application delivery controller (ADC) platforms, enhanced data center management and orchestration interoperability, complete support for leading hypervisors, and new AppShape technology to provide the industry's first application delivery fabric.
Radware ADC Fabric breaks new ground in virtualized application delivery by leveraging the concept of a virtual ADC (vADC) resource pool across both single and multiple data centers. The ADC fabric transforms physical ADCs from "units" or devices into services, regardless of the underlying computing resources resulting in increased agility and simplified operations. This also overcomes the traditionally limited model of requiring two identical ADC appliances for redundancy, by supporting cross-ADC form factor redundant pairs, for unlimited scalability and high resiliency.
By implementing Radware ADC Fabric within virtual data centers and replacing traditional ADCs with vADC instances, IT managers can now assign a vADC instance per application, department or customer, essentially creating a fully virtualized application silo. This simplifies manageability and operations as one silo can be upgraded at a time without affecting other silos. Each silo can have full fault isolation with its own dedicated components (servers, storage, and vADCs) to guarantee application performance and SLAs. The result is improved application silo agility, mobility, and bursting within a single data center or cross data centers.
A key component of Radware ADC Fabric is a new technology - Radware AppShape - that provides an application perspective for shaping the data center infrastructure to specific application needs. AppShape dramatically accelerates the rollout of new business applications and services which can be integrated into the virtual data center and cloud eco-systems.
"Radware recognizes not only the technological, but also the economic demands placed on enterprise and carrier data centers today," said Avi Chesla, chief technology officer, Radware. "Through our VADI strategy, we now introduce a new application delivery abstraction layer technology which allows organizations to shape our application delivery tools to meet exactly their business needs, removing traditional complexities of ADC administration associated with networking, computing resources, high availability, security and more - letting companies to really focus only on their business' application.
"This ADC abstraction layer allows easy control of the Radware ADC fabric and thus provides a turn-key application delivery solution for all sizes of companies as well as enterprise and carrier segments, to help them build out their infrastructures for virtualized or cloud computing scenarios in the most cost-efficient, flexible, and resilient way possible on the market today," Chesla said.
With this Radware ADC Fabric announcement, the Company provides the highest vADC density and ADC consolidation ratios available on the market to deliver the lowest cost per vADC for significant cost savings. Also, with AppShape technology as part of the ADC Fabric, customers will enjoy fast application rollout with unmatched business agility as well as maximum operational efficiency. All products and technologies are available now for either traditional application delivery (ADC) deployments or virtualized/cloud computing deployments under the VADI 2.0 strategy.