Round 1: The ADC in the Cloud Challenge
Industry Issues. Vendor Differentiators.
The cloud era has arrived. The cloud will very likely play a role in your network. It can be a cost-effective way to handle peak loads, seasonal variations in traffic and new application growth. Senior management has seen the ads and is pushing your enterprise to at least explore, if not join, the cloud movement. What do you do? You could consider turning your back on the whole issue. After all, there are plenty of good reasons to resist, including security concerns and service levels. Or you could face the security and service-level challenges head on. How do you do it? Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) have stepped up to the challenge and provide a way to get control of the cloud by protecting your organization's applications, providing visibility into the cloud and making sure the move to the cloud is a success. I have brought together the three leading suppliers of ADCs to explain how their solutions make it possible to succeed at moving to the cloud. Specifically, F5 Networks, Citrix Systems and Radware explain how they solve the cloud's problems and where they excel, all in a handy guide that you can download here. Download my challenge to the ADC industry and see how the vendors responded.
Download our challenge to the MDM industry and see how the vendors responded.ADC Network World Challenge Series presented by
Robin Layland
Round 2: Panel Discussions
How Do You Control the Cloud Like You Do Your Own Infrastructure?
Industry analyst Robin Layland joins Alan Murphy from F5 Networks and Greg Smith from Citrix to explore how an ADC can allow you to control your applications running in the cloud as effectively as you control them when they are running in your data center. We do a deep dive into how to maintain high availability and service levels while securing the applications and examine the key role policies and policy enforcement play in a successful cloud implementation. We also examine how to maintain access control and user authentication outside the data center.
How To Successfully Manage Apps When They Are Split Between the Data Center and the Cloud
Eitan Bremler of Radware, Greg Smith of Citrix and Robin discuss splitting an application between the data center and the cloud to more efficiently handle peak loads, seasonal variations and new applications. The discussion centers on the role of the ADC in successfully splitting an application in this way. We explore key issues including how to have consistent policy enforcement and maintain visibility. The panelists provide important tips on how the ADC can solve common problems that occur when splitting an application.
The Transformation from Application Delivery to Service Delivery
Cloud computing and consumerization are fundamentally changing the way organizations use IT. As IT shifts its focus from application delivery to service delivery, application delivery technologies must evolve to support physical and virtual servers and implementation options that deliver capabilities tailored for branch offices, user endpoints, the cloud, and the edge of the enterprise network.
Download now
Achieving Enterprise Agility in the Cloud
Cloud computing continues to be one of today’s most intriguing IT technologies, yet enterprises are still weighing whether it can help them achieve their business goals. Working together, VMware, F5 Networks, and BlueLock offer integrated solutions that help enterprises develop agility so they can easily and efficiently use cloud resources on demand to meet their changing needs.
Download now
Reduce Virtual Data Center TCO via ADC Consolidation
This white paper discusses how businesses adopting cloud computing technologies can reduce their virtual data center Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and achieve higher Return on Investment (ROI) by deploying Radware’s application delivery solution which leverages ADC-VX™, the industry’s first Application Delivery Controller (ADC) hypervisor solution. By enabling seamless ADC consolidation and virtualization while ensuring high agility and application resilience, Radware’s ADC enables a reduction in the number of physical ADC units required in the data center while optimizing the ADC processing utilization
Download now