Radware kicked off a new virtualization strategy for its application delivery controller (ADC) products as well as new virtual appliance offerings. The company has created its own hypervisor to virtualize multiple virtual instances of ADC on its proprietary hardware in a new product dubbed ADC-VX, which can consolidate up to 28 physical devices.
Radware will also offer a "soft ADC" housed in a virtual appliance. The new virtual form factors will also include lifecycle and migration services for virtual machines, along with a mechanism to guarantee access to hardware resources for each virtual device. Integration with data center orchestration tools will follow. The first two virtual machines added to an ADC-VX hardware appliance, available now, are free; the "soft" ADC will start at $18,000 when it becomes available this year.