Hitachi Picks A10's ACOS Solution for BladeSymphony 320 Load Balancer Blade

A10 Networks, a provider of Application Delivery Controllers (ADC (News - Alert)), has announced that its Advance Core Operating System (ACOS) has been selected as the operating system for Hitachi’s BladeSymphony 320 Load Balancer Blade.

As part of this partnership, A10 enables ACOS to run on the Hitachi (News - Alert) BladeSymphony 320 Load Balancer Blade. The combination of A10’s scalable ACOS and Hitachi’s top hardware enables fast deployment of high performance server load balancing solutions, according to the companies.

The BladeSymphony 320 is a compact high density model for Hitachi’s Integrated Service Platform. The Load Balancer Blade for the 320 Chassis enables Web Application Delivery onto a common blade server chassis, optimizing rack space. Hitachi is expected to solely perform the marketing and distribution of the Load Balancer Blade.

Running on BladeSymphony 320, the new Load Balancing Blade provides customers with a next-generation consolidated Web Application Delivery platform in a single system, making network design easier and reducing management costs.

In addition, the Load Balancing Blade addresses the growing virtualization and cloud computing network architectures. This has been made possible through the strategic alliance between Hitachi and A10.

Hitachi said that it selected A10 Networks’ (News - Alert) ACOS as the new operating system for the Load Balancing Blade after evaluating server load balancing technology options. The company selected ACOS because of its “superior scalability, performance, flexibility and usability.”

“The Load Balancing Blade will enable system consolidation and TCO reduction, adding new value to our Integrated Service Platform, BladeSymphony,” said Akio Yamamoto, division president for Enterprise Server Division at Hitachi, in a release.

He said that Hitachi also has a technology alliance with A10's AX Series family of high-performance application delivery controller appliances, and also indicated that the company plans to strengthen the partnership between the two companies.

 

Noting that the inclusion of ACOS with Hitachi's Blade Server is a “powerful combination,” Lee Chen (News - Alert), founder and CEO of A10 Networks, said that together, Hitachi's superior hardware quality and comprehensive professional services, and A10's technology leadership, deliver customers an effective solution for data center consolidation.

 

“The combined solution also benefits customers by lowering cost and power consumption, and enabling initiatives such as virtualization and cloud computing,” said Chen.