Radware Announces the First Application Delivery Fabric For the ITaaS Economy
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Posted on November 21, 2011 at 5:35:01 AM
Radware Announces the First Application Delivery Fabric For the ITaaS Economy
The next evolution of Radware's VADI strategy provides ground-breaking cost savings, efficiency and agility for virtual and cloud data centers
MAHWAH, New Jersey, November 21, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Radware [http://www.Radware.com ] (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of
application delivery
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationDelivery/default.aspx ] and
application security
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationNetworkSecurity/default.aspx ]
solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today announced the next phase
of its Virtual Application Delivery Infrastructure (VADI(TM)) strategy
featuring new application delivery controller (ADC) platforms, enhanced data
center management and orchestration interoperability, complete support for
leading hypervisors, and new AppShape(TM) technology to provide the
industry's first application delivery fabric.
Radware ADC Fabric(TM) breaks new ground in virtualized application
delivery by leveraging the concept of a virtual ADC (vADC) resource pool
across both single and multiple data centers. The ADC fabric transforms
physical ADCs from "units" or devices into services, regardless of the
underlying computing resources resulting in increased agility and simplified
operations. This also overcomes the traditionally limited model of requiring
two identical ADC appliances for redundancy, by supporting cross-ADC form
factor redundant pairs, for unlimited scalability and high resiliency.
By implementing Radware ADC Fabric within virtual data centers and
replacing traditional ADCs with vADC instances, IT managers can now assign a
vADC instance per application, department or customer, essentially creating
a fully virtualized application silo. This simplifies manageability and
operations as one silo can be upgraded at a time without affecting other
silos. Each silo can have full fault isolation with its own dedicated
components (servers, storage, and vADCs) to guarantee application
performance and SLAs. The result is improved application silo agility,
mobility, and bursting within a single data center or cross data centers.
A key component of Radware ADC Fabric is a new technology - Radware
AppShape - that provides an application perspective for shaping the data
center infrastructure to specific application needs. AppShape dramatically
accelerates the rollout of new business applications and services which can
be integrated into the virtual data center and cloud eco-systems.
When combined with new ADC platforms that deliver the industry's highest
ADC consolidation ratios (up to 480 virtual instances in a single appliance)
and VADI services that simplify dynamic provisioning, decommissioning,
scaling or migration of ADC instances, Radware elevates its VADI strategy to
an unprecedented level in which businesses can meet the financial and
technical needs imposed by today's economic drivers. More and more,
companies are seeking new ways to transform hardened information technology
assets and capabilities into consolidated, flexible and adaptable services
to reduce infrastructure and operational expenses while concurrently meeting
shifting business demands in real-time at a fraction of the cost.
"Radware recognizes not only the technological, but also the economic
demands placed on enterprise and carrier data centers today," said Avi
Chesla, chief technology officer, Radware. "Through our VADI strategy, we
now introduce a new application delivery abstraction layer technology which
allows organizations to shape our application delivery tools to meet exactly
their business needs, removing traditional complexities of ADC
administration associated with networking, computing resources, high
availability, security and more - letting companies to really focus only on
their business' application.
"This ADC abstraction layer allows easy control of the Radware ADC
fabric and thus provides a turn-key application delivery solution for all
sizes of companies as well as enterprise and carrier segments, to help them
build out their infrastructures for virtualized or cloud computing scenarios
in the most cost-efficient, flexible, and resilient way possible on the
market today," Chesla said.
Announcement Highlights
More on the New ADC Service- Radware AppShape: AppShape is designed to
accelerate, simplify and optimize application deployment with a holistic
view from the application perspective. Using AppShape capabilities,
application deployment and testing times are reduced from by a factor of
10x-100x, cutting deployment costs up to 86%. AppShape offers:
- Specially designed templates for leading business
applications (e.g., Microsoft, SAP, Oracle) help IT managers configure
all required ADC options easily for faster application rollouts with
fewer mistakes. Additionally, the templates can be shared across the
data center and reused when needed.
- Efficient application delivery operation through an
application-centric view of specific application parameters for the
ongoing tuning of services, as well as auto-discovery capabilities that
scan application resources to identify changes and synchronizes them to
the ADC with no human intervention.
- Simplified reports and management screens provide an
application-centric view with full logging and visibility of application
SLAs, performance, and rules/regulatory compliance.
New ADC Platform - Alteon(R) 5224: The latest addition to the Alteon
product line, this new platform is designed to help businesses begin their
cloud journey without fear of overspending. An ideal solution for
medium-size enterprises, the Alteon 5224 with Radware's ADC-VX(TM) running
on top, allows users to create an innovative, on-demand consolidation
platform capable of supporting up to 24 vADC instances with throughput
between 1 Gbps and 14 Gbps.
Alteon 10000 - High-End Platform for Service, Hosting, and Cloud
Providers: Radware also announced that its ADC-VX consolidation platform now
runs on top of its Alteon 10000 platform, making it the only ADC solution to
meet the full spectrum of this market segment's needs. The Alteon 10000 now
supports on demand up to a staggering 480 vADCs with up to 80 Gbps of
throughput for a solution that can create up to 30 times more vADCs on a
single device than other vendor solution, resulting in higher savings of
hardware and operational expenses as well as faster ROI compared to any
other consolidation solution in the industry. By enabling IT managers to
create a separate, fully isolated vADC instance - whether each application
for enterprises or individual customer services delivered by cloud, carrier
and hosting providers - the Alteon 10000 platform ensures high availability,
SLA integrity, and performance with multi-tenant support.
Expanded Radware Alteon VA(TM) Support: Radware's Alteon VA is a vADC
deployed as a virtual appliance on general server virtualization
infrastructure (VI). In addition to VMware ESX/ESXi, it is now offered for
industry-leading hypervisors including KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Open Xen.
It is the only softADC which can run on each of these hypervisors.
Enhanced vDirect(TM) Interoperability: vDirect plug-in and SDK enables
fast and easy integration of the ADC fabric into virtual and cloud data
center management systems. The plug-in provides all the building blocks and
management interfaces required for a data center management and
orchestration system to provision, decommission, configure and monitor vADCs
and computing resources within a virtual data center. vDirect now supports
VMware's vCloud Director in addition to VMware's vCenter Orchestrator,
simplifying the provisioning of virtual applications within vCloud
environments to include virtual ADC resources.
Key Benefits
With today's Radware ADC Fabric announcement, the Company provides the
highest vADC density and ADC consolidation ratios available on the market to
deliver the lowest cost per vADC for significant cost savings. Also, with
AppShape technology as part of the ADC Fabric, customers will enjoy fast
application rollout with unmatched business agility as well as maximum
operational efficiency.
Lastly, customers will benefit from Radware's pioneering on-demand ADC
approach, now enhanced for the ADC Fabric, which provides industry-unique
on-demand scalability for throughput, virtual ADC instances, and application
delivery services combined with the ability to scale out of devices across
the fabric or out of data centers for maximum agility and optimal investment
protection.
Pricing and Availability
All products and technologies are available now for either traditional
application delivery (ADC) deployments or virtualized/cloud computing
deployments under the VADI 2.0 strategy. Pricing is available upon request.
For more information, please visit http://www.radware.com/ADCFabric .
Supporting Quotes
Jevin Jensen, senior director, IS Infrastructure at Mohawk Industries in
Dalton, GA:
"The new Radware ADC Fabric along with its other new virtualization
capabilities allows for a quick start up and the consolidation of our older
standalone appliances into a single, scalable solution. Radware's
virtualization solution offers us improved efficiency in operations, greater
business agility, and ensured application response time metrics which makes
it ideal for our hybrid cloud."
Tracy Corbo, senior analyst, Enterprise Management Associates:
"Cloud computing and virtualization are driving the demand for flexible,
elastic, on-demand computing infrastructures. The commoditization and
subsequent virtualization of the server hardware infrastructure is far from
complete, but is driving the virtualization across all other IT practices.
Networking virtualization is in its infancy and continues to evolve and may
not follow the exact same path as its server counterparts. In the meantime,
hybrid environments provide an ideal solution. These environments bring
together the best of the physical and virtual environments, achieving a
level of flexibility and scalability that might not otherwise be possible."
Additional Information (with links)
- VADI 2.0 Video
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf6uAl1RSuk&hd=1 ]
- ADC Fabric Demo
[http://stream1d.radware.net/cdn/images/landingpages/adc_fabric/ADCFabric_pr.html ]
- Whitepaper: "Virtual Application Delivery Infrastructure
[http://www.radware.com/workarea/showcontent.aspx?ID17 ]"
- Whitepaper: "Reduce Data Center TCO Via ADC Consolidation
[http://www.radware.com/workarea/showcontent.aspx?ID27930 ]"
- Alteon Data Sheet
[http://www.radware.com/workarea/showcontent.aspx?ID27933 ]
About Radware
Radware [http://www.radware.com ] (NASDAQ: RDWR), is a global leader of
application delivery
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationDelivery/default.aspx ] and
application security
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationNetworkSecurity/default.aspx ]
solutions for virtual and cloud data centers. Its award-winning solutions
portfolio delivers full resilience for business-critical applications,
maximum IT efficiency, and complete business agility. Radware's solutions
empower more than 10,000 enterprise and carrier customers worldwide to adapt
to market challenges quickly, maintain business continuity and achieve
maximum productivity while keeping costs down. For more information, please
visit http://www.radware.com.
Radware encourages you to join our community and follow us on; LinkedIn
[http://www.linkedin.com/company/165642 ], Radware Blog
[http://blog.radware.com ], Twitter [http://twitter.com/#!/radware ], YouTube
[http://www.youtube.com/radwareinc ] and the Radware Connect
[http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/radware-connect/id391124100?mt=8 ] app for
iPhone(R).
This press release may contain statements concerning Radware's future
prospects that are "forward-looking statements" under the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on current
expectations and projections that involve a number of risks and
uncertainties. There can be no assurance that future results will be
achieved, and actual results could differ materially from forecasts and
estimates. These risks and uncertainties, as well as others, are discussed
in greater detail in Radware's Annual Report on Form 20-F and Radware's
other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking
statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and Radware
undertakes no commitment to revise or update any forward-looking statement
in order to reflect events or circumstances after the date any such
statement is made. Radware's public filings are available from the
Securities and Exchange Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov or may be
obtained on Radware's website at http://www.radware.com.
Corporate Media Relations:
Michael Lordi
+1-201-785-3206 (office)
+1-201-574-3840 (cell)
mikel@radware.com
Source: Radware Ltd
.
The next evolution of Radware's VADI strategy provides ground-breaking cost savings, efficiency and agility for virtual and cloud data centers
MAHWAH, New Jersey, November 21, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Radware [http://www.Radware.com ] (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of
application delivery
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationDelivery/default.aspx ] and
application security
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationNetworkSecurity/default.aspx ]
solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today announced the next phase
of its Virtual Application Delivery Infrastructure (VADI(TM)) strategy
featuring new application delivery controller (ADC) platforms, enhanced data
center management and orchestration interoperability, complete support for
leading hypervisors, and new AppShape(TM) technology to provide the
industry's first application delivery fabric.
Radware ADC Fabric(TM) breaks new ground in virtualized application
delivery by leveraging the concept of a virtual ADC (vADC) resource pool
across both single and multiple data centers. The ADC fabric transforms
physical ADCs from "units" or devices into services, regardless of the
underlying computing resources resulting in increased agility and simplified
operations. This also overcomes the traditionally limited model of requiring
two identical ADC appliances for redundancy, by supporting cross-ADC form
factor redundant pairs, for unlimited scalability and high resiliency.
By implementing Radware ADC Fabric within virtual data centers and
replacing traditional ADCs with vADC instances, IT managers can now assign a
vADC instance per application, department or customer, essentially creating
a fully virtualized application silo. This simplifies manageability and
operations as one silo can be upgraded at a time without affecting other
silos. Each silo can have full fault isolation with its own dedicated
components (servers, storage, and vADCs) to guarantee application
performance and SLAs. The result is improved application silo agility,
mobility, and bursting within a single data center or cross data centers.
A key component of Radware ADC Fabric is a new technology - Radware
AppShape - that provides an application perspective for shaping the data
center infrastructure to specific application needs. AppShape dramatically
accelerates the rollout of new business applications and services which can
be integrated into the virtual data center and cloud eco-systems.
When combined with new ADC platforms that deliver the industry's highest
ADC consolidation ratios (up to 480 virtual instances in a single appliance)
and VADI services that simplify dynamic provisioning, decommissioning,
scaling or migration of ADC instances, Radware elevates its VADI strategy to
an unprecedented level in which businesses can meet the financial and
technical needs imposed by today's economic drivers. More and more,
companies are seeking new ways to transform hardened information technology
assets and capabilities into consolidated, flexible and adaptable services
to reduce infrastructure and operational expenses while concurrently meeting
shifting business demands in real-time at a fraction of the cost.
"Radware recognizes not only the technological, but also the economic
demands placed on enterprise and carrier data centers today," said Avi
Chesla, chief technology officer, Radware. "Through our VADI strategy, we
now introduce a new application delivery abstraction layer technology which
allows organizations to shape our application delivery tools to meet exactly
their business needs, removing traditional complexities of ADC
administration associated with networking, computing resources, high
availability, security and more - letting companies to really focus only on
their business' application.
"This ADC abstraction layer allows easy control of the Radware ADC
fabric and thus provides a turn-key application delivery solution for all
sizes of companies as well as enterprise and carrier segments, to help them
build out their infrastructures for virtualized or cloud computing scenarios
in the most cost-efficient, flexible, and resilient way possible on the
market today," Chesla said.
Announcement Highlights
More on the New ADC Service- Radware AppShape: AppShape is designed to
accelerate, simplify and optimize application deployment with a holistic
view from the application perspective. Using AppShape capabilities,
application deployment and testing times are reduced from by a factor of
10x-100x, cutting deployment costs up to 86%. AppShape offers:
- Specially designed templates for leading business
applications (e.g., Microsoft, SAP, Oracle) help IT managers configure
all required ADC options easily for faster application rollouts with
fewer mistakes. Additionally, the templates can be shared across the
data center and reused when needed.
- Efficient application delivery operation through an
application-centric view of specific application parameters for the
ongoing tuning of services, as well as auto-discovery capabilities that
scan application resources to identify changes and synchronizes them to
the ADC with no human intervention.
- Simplified reports and management screens provide an
application-centric view with full logging and visibility of application
SLAs, performance, and rules/regulatory compliance.
New ADC Platform - Alteon(R) 5224: The latest addition to the Alteon
product line, this new platform is designed to help businesses begin their
cloud journey without fear of overspending. An ideal solution for
medium-size enterprises, the Alteon 5224 with Radware's ADC-VX(TM) running
on top, allows users to create an innovative, on-demand consolidation
platform capable of supporting up to 24 vADC instances with throughput
between 1 Gbps and 14 Gbps.
Alteon 10000 - High-End Platform for Service, Hosting, and Cloud
Providers: Radware also announced that its ADC-VX consolidation platform now
runs on top of its Alteon 10000 platform, making it the only ADC solution to
meet the full spectrum of this market segment's needs. The Alteon 10000 now
supports on demand up to a staggering 480 vADCs with up to 80 Gbps of
throughput for a solution that can create up to 30 times more vADCs on a
single device than other vendor solution, resulting in higher savings of
hardware and operational expenses as well as faster ROI compared to any
other consolidation solution in the industry. By enabling IT managers to
create a separate, fully isolated vADC instance - whether each application
for enterprises or individual customer services delivered by cloud, carrier
and hosting providers - the Alteon 10000 platform ensures high availability,
SLA integrity, and performance with multi-tenant support.
Expanded Radware Alteon VA(TM) Support: Radware's Alteon VA is a vADC
deployed as a virtual appliance on general server virtualization
infrastructure (VI). In addition to VMware ESX/ESXi, it is now offered for
industry-leading hypervisors including KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Open Xen.
It is the only softADC which can run on each of these hypervisors.
Enhanced vDirect(TM) Interoperability: vDirect plug-in and SDK enables
fast and easy integration of the ADC fabric into virtual and cloud data
center management systems. The plug-in provides all the building blocks and
management interfaces required for a data center management and
orchestration system to provision, decommission, configure and monitor vADCs
and computing resources within a virtual data center. vDirect now supports
VMware's vCloud Director in addition to VMware's vCenter Orchestrator,
simplifying the provisioning of virtual applications within vCloud
environments to include virtual ADC resources.
Key Benefits
With today's Radware ADC Fabric announcement, the Company provides the
highest vADC density and ADC consolidation ratios available on the market to
deliver the lowest cost per vADC for significant cost savings. Also, with
AppShape technology as part of the ADC Fabric, customers will enjoy fast
application rollout with unmatched business agility as well as maximum
operational efficiency.
Lastly, customers will benefit from Radware's pioneering on-demand ADC
approach, now enhanced for the ADC Fabric, which provides industry-unique
on-demand scalability for throughput, virtual ADC instances, and application
delivery services combined with the ability to scale out of devices across
the fabric or out of data centers for maximum agility and optimal investment
protection.
Pricing and Availability
All products and technologies are available now for either traditional
application delivery (ADC) deployments or virtualized/cloud computing
deployments under the VADI 2.0 strategy. Pricing is available upon request.
For more information, please visit http://www.radware.com/ADCFabric .
Supporting Quotes
Jevin Jensen, senior director, IS Infrastructure at Mohawk Industries in
Dalton, GA:
"The new Radware ADC Fabric along with its other new virtualization
capabilities allows for a quick start up and the consolidation of our older
standalone appliances into a single, scalable solution. Radware's
virtualization solution offers us improved efficiency in operations, greater
business agility, and ensured application response time metrics which makes
it ideal for our hybrid cloud."
Tracy Corbo, senior analyst, Enterprise Management Associates:
"Cloud computing and virtualization are driving the demand for flexible,
elastic, on-demand computing infrastructures. The commoditization and
subsequent virtualization of the server hardware infrastructure is far from
complete, but is driving the virtualization across all other IT practices.
Networking virtualization is in its infancy and continues to evolve and may
not follow the exact same path as its server counterparts. In the meantime,
hybrid environments provide an ideal solution. These environments bring
together the best of the physical and virtual environments, achieving a
level of flexibility and scalability that might not otherwise be possible."
Additional Information (with links)
- VADI 2.0 Video
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf6uAl1RSuk&hd=1 ]
- ADC Fabric Demo
[http://stream1d.radware.net/cdn/images/landingpages/adc_fabric/ADCFabric_pr.html ]
- Whitepaper: "Virtual Application Delivery Infrastructure
[http://www.radware.com/workarea/showcontent.aspx?ID17 ]"
- Whitepaper: "Reduce Data Center TCO Via ADC Consolidation
[http://www.radware.com/workarea/showcontent.aspx?ID27930 ]"
- Alteon Data Sheet
[http://www.radware.com/workarea/showcontent.aspx?ID27933 ]
About Radware
Radware [http://www.radware.com ] (NASDAQ: RDWR), is a global leader of
application delivery
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationDelivery/default.aspx ] and
application security
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationNetworkSecurity/default.aspx ]
solutions for virtual and cloud data centers. Its award-winning solutions
portfolio delivers full resilience for business-critical applications,
maximum IT efficiency, and complete business agility. Radware's solutions
empower more than 10,000 enterprise and carrier customers worldwide to adapt
to market challenges quickly, maintain business continuity and achieve
maximum productivity while keeping costs down. For more information, please
visit http://www.radware.com.
Radware encourages you to join our community and follow us on; LinkedIn
[http://www.linkedin.com/company/165642 ], Radware Blog
[http://blog.radware.com ], Twitter [http://twitter.com/#!/radware ], YouTube
[http://www.youtube.com/radwareinc ] and the Radware Connect
[http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/radware-connect/id391124100?mt=8 ] app for
iPhone(R).
This press release may contain statements concerning Radware's future
prospects that are "forward-looking statements" under the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on current
expectations and projections that involve a number of risks and
uncertainties. There can be no assurance that future results will be
achieved, and actual results could differ materially from forecasts and
estimates. These risks and uncertainties, as well as others, are discussed
in greater detail in Radware's Annual Report on Form 20-F and Radware's
other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking
statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and Radware
undertakes no commitment to revise or update any forward-looking statement
in order to reflect events or circumstances after the date any such
statement is made. Radware's public filings are available from the
Securities and Exchange Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov or may be
obtained on Radware's website at http://www.radware.com.
Corporate Media Relations:
Michael Lordi
+1-201-785-3206 (office)
+1-201-574-3840 (cell)
mikel@radware.com
Source: Radware Ltd
.