Application Delivery Controllers Securing Application Access
Today’s global business environment though technologically sound, is also a very complex one. The growth of the mobile internet and use of smart phones to tablets, has accelerated demand for continuous connectivity to business applications. This has created the need for catering to the widely networked environment. Organizations thus need technology which can not only help in making them globally accessible but also ensure a faster response time with relation to application delivery and business intelligence.
The global organization thus needs to deploy application delivery controller that would provide them with effective load balancing solutions. To meet the demands for remote desktop access, scalability, high availability and performance, organizations tend to deploy additional infrastructure at the centralized location. However, these centralized deployments have their limitations. The failure at any point will make it inaccessible to others in the network, The bandwidth bottlenecks and the congestion also effect the quality of service and high-variable delays in transferring content to distantly located users.
An application delivery controller is placed in a data center between the firewall and application servers. The first-generation controllers were used as load balancers between the servers as well as for accelerating application access. However, the new technology based application delivery controllers functions in a more holistic method and covers widespread data center functions. Such application delivery networking facilitates consistent availability of the applications and increases productivity.
These controllers are loaded with features such as compression, cache, connection multiplexing, application layer security, SSL offload and content switching combined with fundamental server load balancing. The new age application delivery controllers thus come in as an effective solution to provide high availability and performance to millions of users across geographical boundaries. The advent of virtualization, public and private clouds and ever increasing mobile traffic has led to application delivery undergoing a dramatic change.
The application delivery controllers from the leaders of the industry address the challenges faced by the enterprises in application and cloud service delivery. These customs built appliances with cutting-edge performance and scalability and engineered for virtual environments are structured for modern data centers. Further, with its energy-efficient components, good Ethernet connectivity and multi-core processing features, this can cater to both small and medium enterprises as well as global organizations.
The new age ADC’s with innovative its features such as advanced traffic management, helps as a load balancer for server and link load balancing. Other features like application and data center acceleration and network application and data security makes these application delivery controllers a single entry point and acts as a secure access gateway for all applications.
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