Application Delivery

Why You Need Application Delivery

What is Application Delivery?

Optimizing your network to enhance access to critical applications has become a priority for organizations as they build redundancy into their internal networks or as they centralize application within their data center. Critical applications running on multiple servers can improve performance by intelligently balancing traffic between the servers while maintain resiliency within your networks.

Application delivery solutions enable organizations to simplify management of applications at remote sites by hosting critical applications within their main data center and optimizing their WAN to reduce the latency of applications to their remote sites.

How Will Application Delivery Solutions Benefit My Business?

Employing application delivery solutions can help your business to:

• Reduce application latency to remote end-users
• Centralize the network environment
• Decrease operating and management costs
• Postpone the need to upgrade WAN bandwidth
• Improves disaster recovery position by speeding backups and data replication over the WAN

How Can I Help My Business Embrace Application Delivery Solutions?

When implementing application delivery solutions, it is important to:

• Identify which applications are business-critical
• Prioritize applications requiring instant access
• Determine which applications experience excessive latency issues
• Investigate which applications are accessed multiple times throughout the day, causing duplicate traffic

Designing Your Solution

What Comprises an Application Delivery Solution?

Effective application delivery solutions include the following components:

Network Health Check

Before mapping out an application delivery strategy, it's critical to assess the types of traffic on your network, how it is being accessed and routed, and where bottlenecks appear. This level of assessment can be done with in-house resources or outsourced to a third-party provider.

WAN Accelerators

Using data deduplication algorithms, traffic prioritization and TCP protocols can deliver LAN-like performance over the WAN. WAN accelerators also reduce chatty application traffic, reducing the latency of bandwidth-intensive traffic.

Load Balancing Software

Load balancing software intelligently prioritizing and accelerating the delivery of critical applications hosted on multiple servers. It monitors and distributes traffic on the network based upon defined prioritization of the type of data, the IP address, and the destination.

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

Offload server processing of web based applications from web servers. Often ADC's include load balancing software as well as other features such as content manipulation, advanced routing capabilities and system health monitoring.

Voice and Data Services

Application delivery solutions can reduce or eliminate the need for bandwidth upgrades, and offer an opportunity to re-evaluate your existing voice and data needs and carrier agreements for additional cost savings.

Getting Started with Application Delivery

Your Sanforce Account Manager and certified networking specialists are ready to assist you with every phase of choosing and leveraging the right application delivery solution for your IT environment. Our approach includes:

• An initial discovery session to understand your goals, requirements and budget
• An assessment review of your existing environment and definition of project requirements
• Detailed vendor evaluations, recommendations, future environment design and proof of concept
• Procurement, configuration and deployment of the final solution
• Ongoing product lifecycle support

Contact your Account Manager or Sanforce Specialist today.