Award-Winning First-Generation WSD*
Web Server Director® (WSD) is the award-winning predecessor to the AppDirector™ controller. For existing WSD customers, WSD provides full availability, optimized operation and complete security of server farms, guaranteeing the reliability and high performance of mission-critical applications across the network.
Availability
WSD eliminates bottlenecks, failures and downtime from enterprise servers in a number of ways.
- Fault-tolerant server operation is available 24×7 for critical business applications
- By more effectively using servers at local and global sites, WSD provides full service redundancy, economical operation and seamless scaling of enterprise applications
- Through successful multilevel redundancy and load balancing between servers, WSD helps international sites enjoy complete server continuity across global networks
Performance
WSD guarantees service levels for mission-critical applications through prioritizing application bandwidth allocations by IP addresses, application type and content. By controlling server resource consumption, operating costs can be trimmed through
- Eliminating bottlenecks and latencies, resulting in fast performance of all networked applications and web-enabled transactions
- Providing fully flexible traffic distribution across server farms and data centers for unlimited scaling of applications and server operations
- Handling increased user traffic volumes for economical service growth
Security
WSD continuously protects resources from security violations for fault-tolerant operation of all IP applications including web services, online databases and email.
- Subscribe to Radware’s Security Update Service and receive continuous attack signature updates for on-going protection against internal and external attacks including viruses, worms, Trojans, anti-scanning and protocol anomalies.
- Secure servers against all Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and downtime through real-time monitoring, identification and blocking of DoS/DDoS and SYN attacks.
- Gain full visibility and blocking of attacks hidden in encrypted traffic by securing against secure socket layer (SSL) virus tunneling with Radware’s SSL packet decryption.
*WSD is the predecessor to AppDirector. For new implementations, we recommend AppDirector.