Load Balancers

A10 Networks

As enterprise applications and their content become more sophisticated and accessible, the risk of bandwidth consumption also increases. A10 networks are aware of everything contained in the traffic going to and coming from the applications, allowing them to guarantee availability and accelerate application performance.

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) is popular for its disaster recovery functionality as well as for more intelligent direction of traffic for optimal site selection. A10's GSLB functionality is available in all the AX Series Application Delivery Controller and Load Balancer products. Flexible options, seamless implementation and exceptional value complement the A10 GSLB benefits:

• Provides data center failover and continuity
• Optimizes multi-site deployments
• Ensures user's Web experience is the fastest
• Defines policy metrics with drag-and-drop GUI for ease of use and deployment
• Includes geographic and network proximity policy metrics
• Both DNS Proxy and DNS Server modes are supported
• Included in all AX Series models at no additional charge
• Run local traffic management and global traffic management on the same appliance

F5 Networks

F5's global load balancing technology always directs end-users to the closest or best-performing data center available. Our load balancing capabilities are based on multiple factors, including proximity, performance, and availability, ensuring that end users receive the best experience possible when interacting with applications.

Local load balancing ensures high availability for your applications by monitoring the health and performance of individual servers in real time. This ensures that local users are always connected to a fully functional, responsive system that is best suited for handling their requests. F5's link load balancing technology manages multiple ISP links to the data center automatically, choosing the best-performing link to ensure compliance with service-level agreements. Our solutions can intelligently compress traffic, reducing WAN link bandwidth for lower ISP costs--and cutting down on bandwidth bottlenecks for faster application delivery.

WAN Acceleration

Riverbed

The Riverbed WAN optimization solution can change the way businesses work by improving and accelerating application performance across the WAN while significantly reducing the amount of traffic on the network. Using WAN optimization, IT can provide LAN-like access to data and applications throughout the enterprise — anytime, anywhere. It’s the only solution to span mobile workers, branch offices, data centers, and clouds, allowing a distributed workforce to collaborate in real-time. And it does all this while streamlining operations, improving visibility, and reducing the costs of IT infrastructure.

• Improve the performance of many of the most commonly used applications across the network, typically by 5-50 times and, in some cases, by up to 100 times.
• Ensure fast, reliable access to data and applications for employees around the globe. Achieve LAN-like performance for mobile employees, no matter where they are.
• Reduce the use of WAN bandwidth by 65-95 percent, and relieve network congestion.
• Cut server costs and routine IT maintenance.Consolidate servers into data centers more effectively and enable virtualization, without impacting performance.
• Push out costly network upgrades by two years or more.
• Provide optimization anywhere with a solution designed to improve performance for a private cloud as well as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) Public Clouds.