This document provides an overview of Radware's virtual application delivery infrastructure (VADI) solutions for virtualized data centers. It discusses how VADI uses virtual application delivery controllers (vADCs) that can run on dedicated ADC hardware, third-party hypervisors, or Radware's own ADC-VX hypervisor. The presentation highlights how VADI addresses challenges like availability, performance, and scalability through features like health checking, offloading, and on-demand scalability. It also demonstrates how VADI integrates with orchestration systems through the vDirect plug-in to automate tasks like provisioning vADCs and migrating applications between data centers.
Data Center, Private Cloud/IT transformationCisco Canada
The private cloud is one of today’s fastest growing data center solutions, and the significance of a secure architecture for business applications agnostic to the infrastructure is increasing. Cisco IT is building the foundation for business resiliency; however, resiliency, at every layer of the business environment requires a holistic approach to managing and orchestrating infrastructure, platform, and application resources within a data center and across multiple data centers.
Data Center, Private Cloud/IT transformationCisco Canada
The private cloud is one of today’s fastest growing data center solutions, and the significance of a secure architecture for business applications agnostic to the infrastructure is increasing. Cisco IT is building the foundation for business resiliency; however, resiliency, at every layer of the business environment requires a holistic approach to managing and orchestrating infrastructure, platform, and application resources within a data center and across multiple data centers.
1° Sessione - Tecnologie hyperconvergenti e di virtualizzazione storage: VMwa...Jürgen Ambrosi
Questa prima sessione offre una visione della proposta VMware studiata per consentire l’adozione del paradigma del SDS (Software Defined Storage). VMware vSAN è una soluzione di storage condiviso di classe enterprise estremamente semplice per l’infrastruttura hyperconvergente, ottimizzata per le moderne prestazioni all-flash e configurazioni in Business Continuity e Disaster Recovery.
SAP S/4HANA cloud editions or On Prem? Demystifying the options and cost bene...IBM
Listen to the replay session to explore the various options for technical deployment of SAP S/4HANA. We will demystify the options from the S/4HANA cloud editions (SaaS options) to the hyperscaler and on-premise options. Topics we will examine include cost benefits, flexibility, and ability to respond to the business. SAPinsider webinar series.
1° Sessione - Tecnologie hyperconvergenti e di virtualizzazione storage: VMwa...Jürgen Ambrosi
Questa prima sessione offre una visione della proposta VMware studiata per consentire l’adozione del paradigma del SDS (Software Defined Storage). VMware vSAN è una soluzione di storage condiviso di classe enterprise estremamente semplice per l’infrastruttura hyperconvergente, ottimizzata per le moderne prestazioni all-flash e configurazioni in Business Continuity e Disaster Recovery.
SAP S/4HANA cloud editions or On Prem? Demystifying the options and cost bene...IBM
Listen to the replay session to explore the various options for technical deployment of SAP S/4HANA. We will demystify the options from the S/4HANA cloud editions (SaaS options) to the hyperscaler and on-premise options. Topics we will examine include cost benefits, flexibility, and ability to respond to the business. SAPinsider webinar series.
This presentation was for my Honours project proposal. Presented to a chair of lecturers and peers.
It outlines the problem I aimed to tackle and the issues that I had discovered during research.
2011.11.22 - Cloud Infrastructure Provider - 8ème Forum du Club Cloud des Par...Club Cloud des Partenaires
p8ème Forum du Club Cloud des Partenaires [dans le cadre de Partner VIP - 22 novembre 2011]. Deck de slides qui accompagnent l'atelier "Hébergeurs, infogéreurs, comment différencier votre offre Cloud" [animé par Florence Marcel]
As Enterprises increasingly span their workloads across on-premises data centers and cloud environments, it is becoming significantly complex for IT teams to enable better workload portability and create consistent application delivery and networking services.
In this webinar, you will learn how VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer facilitates seamless application delivery and provides choices to deploy your applications across on-premises data centers and Oracle Cloud Virtual Services (OCVS) while enabling:
Modern Application Delivery: Consider consistency, elastic scalability, cloud-native automation, and built-in end-to-end observability when choosing load balancing across hybrid environments.
Data-center Extension: Ensure continuous operations while providing elastic L4-L7 load balancing, security, and real-time application analytics for VMware-based apps running in Google Cloud.
Lift-and-Shift: When migrating to OCVS from an on-premises data center, operationalize uninterrupted enterprise-grade features, including GSLB and WAF.
In early March, Harbour IT hosted a breakfast session in conjunction with VMware – “vForum Wrap – All the best bits from VMware’s vForum 2010”.
Held in both the Norwest and Sydney offices, local customers were given a VMware update from guest speaker, Bo Leksono. The presentation covered the latest VMware technology and the steps to follow on your journey to the cloud
Featuring eX5, the 5th generation of enterprise X-Architecture® from IBM, and based on the new Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series and Intel Xeon processor 6500 series, these new systems radically expand the capabilities of the x86 platform, breaking through memory bottlenecks with exceptional scalable performance and advanced reliability.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
17. They are designed assuming server and bandwidth resources are available and optimalWEB 2.0 SOA Mobile Users Applications & Business Processes Networks & servers are designed for capacity and connectivity Enterprise Network
18. Radware Solutions Multi-WAN Link Application Delivery Application Security Solution Application delivery solution Slide 7 Data Center Router Web & PortalServers Database Servers Internet DefensePro LinkProof Firewall AppDirector CRM Router AppWall Oracle-PeopleSoft
19. ISP2 ISP 3 ISP1 Multi-WAN Link Application Delivery Mission-critical applications (web-based ERP) are redirected via the high SLA & secure line Non-critical applications (web browsing) are redirected via the non-SLA line Easily & cost effectively add bandwidth while increasing site availability & performance Ensure employee and end-user QoE Limit or block non-business critical traffic (e.g. P2P, streaming, downloads) Headquarter Local Network HTTP for Web browsing Router Corporate users No SLA Low cost DSL lines can be aggregated for simple andcost-effective businessscalability LinkProof ERP, CRM, email, Web servers High SLA 99.99% Router HTTP for ERP / CRM Slide 8
20. IMDDOS 2010 Storm (Botnet) 2007 Srizbi (Botnet) 2007 Rustock (Botnet) 2007 Kracken (Botnet) 2008 Hackers’ Change in Motivation Vandalism and publicity “Hacktivism” Attack Risk Financially motivated Nimda (Installed Trojan) 2001 CodeRed (Defacing IIS web servers) 2001 Slammer (Attacking SQL websites) 2003 Agobot (DoS Botnet) Republican website DoS 2004 Estonia’s Web Sites DoS 2007 Georgia Web Sites DoS 2008 July 2009 Mydoom.EA WikiLeaks Revenge Attacks 2010 Blaster (Attacking Microsoft web site) 2003 Time 2011 2001 2005 Slide 9
54. Virtual Application Delivery Infrastructure – Evolution of ADCs Slide 20 Bringing the Business Value of Server Virtualization to the Application Delivery space: Cost savings, IT efficiency and Business Agility
57. Each vADC can run on top of a specialized and general purpose computing resources
58. Each vADC provides a consistent set of basic and advanced application delivery features and services, regardless of the computing resources it utilizes:
67. Alteon ADC-VA – Overall Summary Slide 27 Full ADC feature set Local and Global SLB Application Acceleration SSL offloading, Compression, Caching, Header and Body modifications All functions utilizes Software functions, no Hardware base acceleration is provided Hypervisor Support VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0/4.1 - Released KVM - Target: Q2 2011 Virtual Machine Requirements CPU:: 2 vCPUs Memory : 3.6 GB Logical Disk: 4 GB Network: 3 virtual interfaces (Management, Clients, Servers) Performance (on 4 CPU core PC) Throughput: Up to 1Gbps Layer 4: Up to 40,000 CPS Layer 7: Up to 25,000 CPS
68. VADI: Three Form Factors – Putting It Together Slide 28 Virtual Data Center Radware ADC-VX ADC Soft ADC Application A – Partitioned High SLA Service Application B – Partitioned High SLA Service Application C - Dedicated High SLA Service Application D - Lower SLA Service (Best Effort)
79. vDirect plug-in provides all the building blocks, workflows and management interfaces required to manage Radware’s VADI vADCs: Provision / Decommission / Update vADC Create / Remove server Create / Remove / Update service (Web, etc) Automatic service elasticity vDirect plug-in is free of charge First release of vDirect plug-in is fully integrated with VMware vCenter and VMware vCenter Orchestrator systems. Slide 31 VADI: Orchestration & Automation / vDirect Specifics
82. VADI: Orchestration & Automation / vDirect Plug-in Benefits Eliminates the need for frequent manual vADC configuration updates. Facilitates end-to-end service provisioning. Fully integrating Radware’s vADC into data center’s workflow automation. Full application delivery resource elasticity according to business application requirements The result: Greater IT efficiency Higher business agility Slide 34
102. Strengthen synergy between enterprise DC and Cloud DCFirewall Enterprise Data Center Orchestration system migrates the Web application to the Cloud and creates a Soft ADC in the Cloud IT manager migrates the Web application to the Cloud in order to reduce OPEX - using the Orchestration system Database Servers Firewall Radware ADC-VX
103. OnDemand Self Service ADC – 1/2 Step #1 Customer-A provisions a new high SLA service via the self service portal IaaS Provider Data Center Self Service Portal Step #2 The self Service portal instructs the Orchestration system to provision a new application VMs and vADC instance Step #4 The self service portal instructs the orchestration system to provision a new application VMs and Soft ADC instance Orchestration System Firewall Radware ADC-VX Internet Step #3 Customer-B provisions a new low SLA service via the self service portal Application B Application A Soft ADC vADC-1 Slide 40
111. Dynamic Application and Resource Alignment – 1/2 Slide 42 Internet Orchestration System Step #2 Orchestration System Periodically monitors ADC-VX’s performance metrics Notices a traffic overload in the Web application Step #3 Orchestration system adds computing resources to application and updates ADC-VX Virtual Data Center Radware ADC-VX Firewall Step #1 User accesses hosted application at Cloud data center Step #4 Redirect traffic to new resource Database Servers
112. Dynamic Application and Resource Alignment – 2/2 Slide 43 Internet IaaS Provider Data Center Orchestration System Orchestration System Firewall Step #2 Orchestration System Periodically monitors ADC-VX’s performance metrics Notices a traffic overload in the Web application Senses local data center resources are maxed out Enterprise Data Center Orchestration system initiates a Cloud Burst of the Web application and provisions a Soft ADC Database Servers Radware ADC-VX Firewall
Here are a few facts about us:Radware was founded in 97 and is publicly traded on Nasdaq since 1999.We have 662 employees with a global presence in more the 40 countries worldwideWe cultivated a wide and valued community of customers – included are a few examples from various industries including finance, eCommerce, telecom, and retail.We can boast a long track record of innovation including more than 10 different patents in the field of application delivery and security, which protect our unique technologies. Included is a sample of the technology awards we received during 2008-9 aloneIn addition, we have certified our solution with all the top application vendors such as MS, Oracle and IBM, with additional technology partnerships and OEMs.
The first set of challenges, Ensure applications availability and business continuity, means making sure that business-critical applications are highly available to users, partners and employees, everywhere, in order to insure that all business processes operate properly and healthfully. That includes:Successfully meeting Service Level Agreements (SLA)Providing Quality of Service (QoS) based on business requirements – delivering “six 9’s” availability as well as QoS based on users and/or business processes prioritizationBe able to easily, quickly deploy new services and applications - without imposing any performance degradation to existing applications
The second set of challenges, Improve applications response times, mainly refer to:Improve the Quality of Experience (QoE) - providing the best response time with minimal latency resulting in the highest end-user satisfaction and the best user experienceRemove network bottle necks originating in network congestion points due to SSL encryption/decryption operations, TCP overhead, large-objects traffic and moreOptimize usage of IT resources – redirect traffic to the most appropriate network devices in order to optimize network traffic and align the network with the business processes
So far we talked about Radware as a company; now let’s discuss the main problem we solve.In enterprise DC we have the applications, users and business processes on one side.On the other, we have the DC network and infrastructure such as servers and storage.Click – for first call out:Business applications are typically dynamic and user specific. They are designed assuming that sever and bandwidth resources are available and optimal. Application design usually does not take into account any issues that may happen with these resources.Click for second call out:On the other hand the network and servers are designed for capacity and connectivity, without addressing these issues.Click for third call out:Therefore, there is an inherent gap between application design assumptions and the services offered by the network.Click for forth call out:The result of not addressing this gap is:Application downtimeReduced productivity due to performance issuesSecurity risksOperational overheadHigher costs
So.. let’s look into what an ADC provides.First, and foremost, load balancing. Server load balancing that is both application and session aware. Sessions, as you may know from online shopping, is very critical. The ADC will keep you on a server for the whole transaction. Global Server Load Balancing provides data center operators the ability to share traffic between data centers (hot-hot) or, more commonly, provide service with a primary data center and a backup data center (hot-warm), or as a worst case scenario, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity through either hot-warm or hot-cold environments.
VMware HA, How it works:VMware HA restarts a virtual machine on a different host should the initial host failVMware HA restarts a virtual machine on a the same host should the VM operation system failVMware FT:Only protects from physical host failures The VM FT pairs are consuming the same resources on 2 different hosts (CPU,Memory,I/O,Network) A dedicated gigabit NIC is requiredUsed for sending all the very intensive information between 2 VMsSupport only new CPUs models from Intel and AMDFT has stringent requirements – see: http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/VMware+vSphere+Fault+Tolerance FT can be wasteful because it runs on two hypervisors for one resourceFT bullet #2: in FT there are 2 VM running on 2 different hosts doing the SAME thing - this is a waste of resources. With ADC you need more than 1 VM but each is serving customersFT bullet #3: FT can work only with new hardware (PC hardware)
Radware’s VADI multiple delivery methods consists of three form factors: The single use dedicated ADCA Hypervisor based ADC called the ADC-VXA virtual appliance The dedicated physical ADC device running a single vADC“Siloed” data center architectureHybrid (virtualized and physical) data centerApplications requiring high performance predictabilityRadware ADC-VXTMADC hypervisor running multiplevADCs on a specialized ADC hardwareADC consolidation projectsVirtualized data center requiring high ADC agilityApplications requiring high performance predictabilityRadware ADC-VAvADC on a general server virtualization infrastructureCloud providers & Virtualized data center requiring high ADC agilityDevelopment, testing and QA environmentsWhy are 3 form factors required:Application SLA requirementsNumber of required vADC instancesThroughput capacity each vADC requiresCost savings objectivesData center footprint limitationsApplication deployment model
Radware’s VADI multiple delivery methods consists of three form factors: The single use dedicated ADCA Hypervisor based ADC called the ADC-VXA virtual appliance The dedicated physical ADC device running a single vADC“Siloed” data center architectureHybrid (virtualized and physical) data centerApplications requiring high performance predictabilityRadware ADC-VXTMADC hypervisor running multiplevADCs on a specialized ADC hardwareADC consolidation projectsVirtualized data center requiring high ADC agilityApplications requiring high performance predictabilityRadware ADC-VAvADC on a general server virtualization infrastructureCloud providers & Virtualized data center requiring high ADC agilityDevelopment, testing and QA environmentsWhy are 3 form factors required:Application SLA requirementsNumber of required vADC instancesThroughput capacity each vADC requiresCost savings objectivesData center footprint limitationsApplication deployment model
vADC on a general server virtualization infrastructureCloud providers & Virtualized data center requiring high ADC agilityDevelopment, testing and QA environmentsApplications requiring only best-effort performanceSoft ADC provided as VMware OVFSupports tiered throughput licenses – 200Mbps, 500Mbps, and 1GbpsSoft ADCs provide the same ADC functionality as traditional physical ADC devices
All 3 form factors provide the same ADC functionalityThe form factors differs in:SLA levelPerformanceRack space requirementSolution agilityNumber of virtual ADC instances
In order to integrate Radware’s VADI architecture with the virtual data center eco-system, Radware developed vDirectTM Plug-in.
vDirect Plug-in eliminates the need for:Frequent manual ADC configuration updatesScripting and manual configuration within the virtual environmentFit any data center and virtual infrastructure size - Radware’s vDirect plug-in is fully integrated with VMware vCenter and vCenter Orchestratorprovides automation and management benefits for any customer using VMware virtualization infrastructure, from SMBs using basic automatic work flows such as on demand VM resources allocation through large enterprises and up to Cloud services providers implementing fully automated service provisioning from VMs and storage to ADCs.Full business agility and resource elasticity - Radware’s vDirect plug-in allows instant provisioning and decommissioning of Radware vADC instances as part of end-to-end service creation.Radware’s vDirect plug-in facilitates virtual infrastructure elasticity by enabling automatic adding/removing computing resources to hosted applications while aligning the ADC configuration with the changes.Drives IT efficiency via workflow automation - Radware’s vDirect plug-in integrates Radware’s ADC into the virtual data center workflow automation, driving greater levels of IT efficiency in the virtualized data center and extracting more value from Radware’s ADC solution.Facilitates the creation of a cross data center service delivery control plane - Radware’s vDirect plug-in allows sharing availability and performance based KPIs with the Cloud orchestration. Allowing creating a service delivery control plane that continuously determines the most adequate data center to serve each end-user.
Best-of-breed self-serving ADCA customer can easily add a new VIP to the ADC representing his hosted applicationThe ADC automatically measures the traffic and number of users for billing purposesFull support for network requirementsFacilitate the generation of new revenue from existing ADC infrastructureApplication delivery as a serviceApplication acceleration capabilities as add-on servicesOn demand throughput and service scalability Cost-effectively accommodate future growth in the number of users, applications, and traffic served by the ADC.Full investment protection, increased asset ROI,and CAPEX savings - no forklift upgrade requiredPay-as-you-grow approach- pay for the exact capacity required, and flexibly scale up when more is needed
Align business application requirements with the infrastructureEnsure business applications get the resources they needGuaranteebest response time for the end-userReduce virtual infrastructure OPEX by freeing IT resourcesReal-time alignment of resources with the networkBenefit from Radware’s Global Traffic Redirection Solution between enterprise and Cloud DC
Radware ADC adds value to VMware users:Ensure application availability and business continuityEnhance application performance and response timeIntegrate the ADC services into the data center workflow automationEnable higher VM densityEnable greater service agilityIncrease staff efficiency and reduce CAPEX & OPEX