Today’s web and application infrastructure continues to expand applications for e-commerce, and communications with customers, partners and internal employees. For those responsible for deploying, maintaining and supporting these networked applications, there is an increasing need to get the highest performance out of datacenter equipment, while simplifying the complexity that causes excess overhead and unnecessary costs.
Optimizing Web and
Application
Infrastructure on a
Limited IT Budget
Costs associates with deploying, maintaining and supporting web application infrastructure can be dramatically reduced with ADCs.
Today's web and application infrastructure availability, high-performance, flexible continues to expand applications for e- scalability and secure operations - while commerce, and communications with streamlining IT costs. ADCs simplify the customers, partners and internal employees. management of networked resources, and For those responsible for deploying, optimize and accelerate user access to maintaining and supporting these networked applications, there is an increasing need to diverse servers, content and transaction-get the highest performance out of based systems. datacenter equipment, while simplifying the Approximately 10% of the application complexity that causes excess overhead servers in a typical datacenter are not used and unnecessary costs. efficiently. Yet, these systems still require ongoing backups, maintenance and The costs associated with network downtime licensing costs; not to mention the energy can run six figures and above on an hourly costs associated with running them. basis. If not controlled, downtime can also However, application delivery controllers lead to customer dissatisfaction and lost and server load balancers can make these business. These consequences are under-utilized servers highly optimized, unacceptable in a market where it costs ten adding new efficiencies to the datacenter. times more to attract a new customer than it does to maintain a current one. Managing Internet user traffic and applications
One of the greatest challenges to any organization is the maintaining of continuous and economical web and application infrastructure uptime. Business-critical websites and intranets face many challenges, from user traffic spikes, servers bogged down trying to handle compute- Many organizations believe that in order to intensive SSL transactions, large and reduce operating costs, they must invest in numerous data file requests, I/O and new energy-efficient technologies. While this memory overloads, and hackers trying to has merit, by leveraging application delivery flood servers with malicious attacks. controllers and server load balancers, there is as much to be gained by optimizing Today's global economy relies on Internet existing systems, than replacing them. sites to run optimally 24x7, while IT staffs When a server is idle, it can use up to 70% demand 100% operationally ready solutions. of its power. By optimizing servers, there is The operational readiness, maintainability, a huge opportunity for maximizing energy and durability of today's Internet sites are usage. As an example, at 10 cents per directly tied to the myriad of equipment all kilowatt per hour, and 500 servers in a connected together within the datacenter datacenter that are only getting 50% infrastructure. utilization, by leveraging ADCs you can maximize what would have been over Application delivery controllers $70,000 of wasted energy each year, while increasing the performance, reliability and deliver datacenter cost savings ability to scale your site. Application delivery controllers (ADC) and server load balancers optimize web and application infrastructure, providing high-
2 Optimizing Web and Application Infrastructure on a Limited IT Budget White Paper
Improving Datacenter Operations The evolution of application The following are examples of how delivery application delivery controllers and server load balancers can help reduce datacenter Until recently, even basic server load costs and optimize datacenter operations: balancing was cost prohibitive for small-to-medium sized businesses. Today, advanced . Maximize server utilization application delivery controllers and server . Optimize investments into existing load balancers are not only affordable, but equipment the consolidation of Layer 4-7 load balancing and content switching, and server . Improve performance by distributing offload capabilities such as SSL, data user traffic loads among multiple web caching and compression, provides SMBs and application servers with cost-effective out-of-the-box . infrastructure. Optimize server and application resources by efficiently allocating traffic across a servers based on a... [download for more]
