Robert Healey
Marketing Evangelist, APAC & Japan
Riverbed
An Application Delivery Network (ADN) is a set of technologies that, when deployed together, provide application availability, security and acceleration. IDC, Gartner and the likes define Application Delivery Networking as the combination of WAN Optimization Controllers (WOCs) and Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs). “We are in a time were consolidation is happening in a big way in the ADN market space. ADC companies are adding WAN optimization to their portfolio and vice versa. Recently Array acquired Certeon, a leader in software based WAN Optimization technology so has Riverbed. In the next couple of months there is expected to be further consolidation in the ADN space. Since it's a very niche and highly critical technology, we have witnessed some of the bigger names opting to retreat from this space,” says Shibu Paul Country Manager – IN, ME and ASEAN at Array Networks.
Today companies around the world are increasingly deploying web-based collaboration applications and static content sharing to leverage the machine-to-machine interactions between distributed enterprises. This makes networking a very crucial part of various businesses. Companies are facing conflicts due to existing corporate network bottlenecks in moving their business-critical applications over the Internet to minimize the cost and complexities associated with the data center deployments and to ensure higher application performance and security.
The move by IT to allow BYOD by employees hits mainstream; the corporate-issued laptop begins to become a bygone piece of equipment. IT realizes that it's able to control devices remotely through virtualization while simultaneously allowing individuals to use the devices that make them happiest and most productive.
Businesses are adopting Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD), which allow employees to share business-critical data over mobile devices such as smart phones, iPads, laptops, and others. However, existing corporate networks are not designed to handle large application traffic. To address these challenges, the network vendors have come up with the concept of Application Delivery Network (ADN) that offloads application provisioning to a highly secure external network that provides reliable application delivery without load and latency.
Application Delivery Network overcomes the networking bottlenecks and addresses the demand for greater application mobility and security in distributed enterprises. ADN classifies and prioritizes the business applications, content, and users in real-time, accelerates the applications across distributed enterprises, and provides security against malicious applications and content. While controlling rising network management costs, ADN can deliver fast, secure, and available applications across the distributed enterprise.
A combination of WAN Optimization Controllers (WOCs) and Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs), Application delivery Networking is a technology that provides application availability, security, acceleration and visibility. As defined by Gartner, “ADCs provide functions that optimize enterprise application environments. Enterprises use ADCs to optimize reliability, end-user performance, data center resources use and security for a variety of enterprise applications.”
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Shibu Paul
Country Manager - IN, ME & ASEAN
Array Networks
While the challenges of consolidation and mobilizing global IT resources are far from simple, one can start to tackle them by learning how to achieve greater application visibility, acceleration and security within the infrastructure.
The Application Delivery Network answers the demand for greater application mobility and security in a changing global business environment. Application Delivery network helps you see applications and users and how they behave on the network. It accelerates mission-critical applications, streaming video, SSl and other enterprise applications.
Riverbed, Bluecoat, CISCO, Array Networks, Allot, F5 Networking, Silver peak and Citrix are the prominent players in the space.
Robert Healey, Marketing Evangelist, APAC & Japan, Riverbed says, “Riverbed has redefined the Application Delivery Controller, from a simple device performing protocol offload and server load balancing, to support new functionality such as web application firewalling (WAF) and web content optimization (WCO), to boost application security and performance. Stingray products, being pure software, are free to download for application developers, allowing security and performance testing to be incorporated into application development and reducing time to market. In addition, Stingray looks and works exactly the same, regardless of where it is hosted -- in a private data center, public cloud or in a hybrid environment, allowing true flexibility for your IT infrastructure, today and tomorrow.”
While competing vendors are struggling to retrofit physical application delivery appliances into virtualized versions, the Riverbed Stingray ADC has been leading the way in virtual environments – including Enterprise, Service Provider and Cloud - for over ten years. “This, combined with the WAF and WCO functionality makes Stingray's ADC product deliver much better flexibility and value than legacy hardware ADC platforms in today’s modern IT environments. Frost & Sullivan recently recognized Riverbed Technology with the 2013 North American Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award for developing Riverbed Stingray, the first software-only ADC in the market. Gartner also describe Riverbed Stingray as “Visionary” in this space,” says Healey.
Riverbed Technology has recently announced the availability of Riverbed Stingray9.5 traffic manager software onAmazon Web Services (AWS)GovCloud. AWS GovCloud is a specific, isolated region of the AWS cloud that is designed to allow US government agencies, contractors and customers to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. Riverbed provides hundreds of government organizations around the world with solutions to meet their most demanding IT goals. Now, with the availability of Stingray onAWS GovCloud, U.S.federal agencies can optimize, scale, secure and improve the performance of their mission-critical applications in the cloud.
Stingray is a virtual and software-based Layer 7 application delivery controller (ADC) with integratedweb content optimization (WCO) capability. Optimized to work incloud environments,itis easily integratedinto an application stack.By implementing Stingray on AWS GovCloud, U.S. federal, stateand local agencies gain agility and cost savings and at the same time significantly improve the performance and scale of their critical application workloads and services.
Stingray also reduces the strain placed on application infrastructures with innovations such as protocol optimizations and application-specific measures such as dynamic compression and caching.
Array Networks has recently expanded their support team headquartered in Bangalore to address the support related queries of their partners & customer. With this expansion Array Networks demonstrates its commitment to customers and partners success by providing faster around the clock technical assistance. Array Networks' support team will offer services that help their partners and customers enhance and operate their network and applications more effectively and with minimum interruption.
The support calls will fall under Level 1, Level 2 categories depending on the support contract purchased. Array Networks technical support is delivered over the telephone or online by e-mail. The 24X7 telephonic supports can be availed on the toll-free number 18001027729 backed by a dedicated team for assisting with partners and customer's queries. The Email support can be availed by sending queries to support@arraynetworks.net. Array also provides 24x7 online support via Array Technical Assistance Center (TAC) website.
Factory repaired or replacement units shipped back within 10 days of receipt at factory (depends on support contract purchased)
Shibu Paul said, "We have expanded our support team to serve our partners and customers more effectively and at a faster rate. The assistance our support team now offers ranges from installation to training to advance hardware replacement. Our support team is committed to our partners and customers success by ensuring that the network runs smoothly and efficiently."
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