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September 23, 2014

Riverbed Intros 'ADC-As-A-Service' for Companies Moving to Hybrid Cloud

In the age of cloud computing, more and more enterprises are adopting hybrid cloud models to host their mission critical applications. Hybrid cloud computing allows companies to use both on-premise applications as well as cloud-based services. This ensures anytime, anywhere computing for the company employees, boosting efficiency and productivity.

In response, data centers are investing in advanced application performance infrastructure technologies for efficient data center traffic management. Application Delivery Controller (ADC (News - Alert)) is a crucial component of application performance infrastructure. ADC is an advanced traffic management device that helps distribute or route traffic among a number of servers or geographically dispersed sites, using prioritization and other optimization techniques.

In the recent years, Riverbed (News - Alert) Technology has emerged as a key player in the data center application performance infrastructure space. Its SteelCentral family of products is used by a number of companies around the globe to solve a variety of application performance challenges. This virtual ADC, according to its makers, eases the delivery of enterprise, cloud and e-commerce applications.

Recently the company expanded the capabilities of SteelApp, making it even more robust and cost effective for the companies transitioning to a hybrid cloud model. Recently introduced SteelCentral Services Controller for SteelApp allows for the need-based, dynamic deployment of “ADC per application”. This “ADC-as-a-Service” approach helps automate the deployment, licensing and metering of application delivery services. In short, the need-based use of ADC helps the companies to attain four-pronged goals:

  1. Allocate the service to each client application according to need
  2. Cope with sudden changes in traffic
  3. Use the service according to needs and scale up or down for any disparate application
  4. Reduce overall costs of hosting application

“The enterprise is going hybrid – transforming into a mix of workloads hosted on-premises and delivered as services from public clouds, with core applications and data running in private data centers and others running in the public cloud or a combination of both. Basic load-balancing has become a minimum standard for ensuring scalable access to web-based applications; but, more functional ADCs are needed in hybrid environments to optimize applications at a more granular level,”  senior vice president and general manager of Riverbed SteelApp Jeff Pancottine explained in a statement.

“SteelCentral Services Controller for SteelApp manages the licensing of instances of SteelApp Traffic Manager, the market-leading virtual ADC, across the hybrid infrastructure, keeping costs down and simplifying manageability,” Pancottine added.




Edited by Maurice Nagle
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