Gain Business Agility with a Flexible IT Infrastructure
It used to be that data center consolidations were motivated by the desire to cut costs. Then complying with regulatory pressures became an important influencer in driving servers from remote sites to the data center.
While these considerations are still important, today’s data center consolidation initiatives are more about improving business agility and aligning strategic IT infrastructure investments with business imperatives.
By putting a premium on speed/performance and flexibility, new consolidated data centers are searching for a resilient application delivery architecture that provides
- 24×365 availability
- End-to-end performance monitoring and application optimization
- Flexibility to accommodate dynamically changing business and application requirements
For IT organizations running consolidated data centers, Radware’s architectural approach provides a complete application delivery solution. Using this solution, IT organizations can advance and contribute to a variety of business objectives by improving business agility in a number of ways.
Intelligent Traffic Classification and Flow Management
The
APSolute™ product suite, is built around a powerful business-smart traffic classification and flow management engine.
APSolute OS optimizes data center resources and ensures the best user experience through end-to-end optimization by providing
- Consistent response times for critical tasks
- Secure access to remote data and other resources
- Reliable performance and availability with guaranteed transaction completion
Business-smart local and global traffic re-direction ensures maximum uptime and optimized service delivery for globally dispersed users, redirecting traffic to the best local or global resource so end users receive the fastest possible response time.
Application-smart Acceleration
To support a broad set of application delivery services, including acceleration for web-based, SSL-based applications and all types of clients, Radware’s open service architecture aligns server infrastructure operations with
application delivery requirements to eliminate
- Traffic surges
- Server bottlenecks
- Connectivity disconnects
- Downtime
Integrated Security Services
An integrated set of services addresses application-level and networking-level
security. These services protect data center resources and applications against both internal and external attacks before they can impact business productivity. APSolute OS is the only application delivery solution that addresses information security and privacy by
- Offloading high-throughput SSL encryption from servers
- Inspecting encrypted traffic so that network security devices aren’t blinded
- Securing web and web services
APSolute OS intrusion prevention also immediately blocks viruses, worms, and Trojans, inspecting and cleansing all traffic (including Secure Socket Layer [SSL] transactions) to block suspect content and prevent malicious signatures.
Service Level Management
By tightly coupling APSolute OS with Radware’s
management software, network managers can now provide service-level management through
application performance monitoring. Managers can take the proactive steps necessary to ensure optimal alignment of network behavior because Radware’s software environment is capable of providing end-to-end visibility for all services and transactions. APSolute’s statistics and reporting features enable effective
- Troubleshooting
- Trend analysis
- Forensics
- Resource planning