Application acceleration specialist Radware will unveil its Virtual Director appliance this week, which checks Quality of Service (QoS), response times, and SLAs for data packets as they travel across the network.
“Once we have figured out that the application needs more resources, the Virtual Director will take action,” says Ilan Kinreich, the Radware COO. “We will instruct VMware, for example, to add more VMs for that application – we can act automatically.”
The Virtual Director works with Radware’s App Director device to control traffic, and can support up to 7,000 transactions per second, according to Kinreich, who said that Radware may extend its virtual reach within the next year.
“At the moment, we have integrated with VMware, in the future we might have plans to integrate with other virtual environments,” he said, explaining that this could happen during the next 12 months.
Pricing for the 1-rack unit-high Virtual Director, which is available in mid-October, starts at $30,000.