Application Acceleration

Load Balancing for Application Acceleration

Application acceleration delivers a faster end-user experience, which in turn drives increased service adoption; application acceleration also improves the efficiency of underlying infrastructure, facilitating maximum return on investment.

Achieving the highest level of application performance requires a combination of both data center and network optimization. In the data center, Array load balancing and application delivery solutions offload compute-intensive functions such as SSL encryption and connection handling from servers, enabling them to operate in their power band for maximum application performance.

For maximum application acceleration, Array’s application-aware load balancing provides a layer of application intelligence that further tunes performance and speeds data transfer from anywhere, to anywhere.

Deployment Models

Data center acceleration functions are provided by Array vAPV virtual appliances running on Array’s Network Functions Platform. Data center acceleration is also available as a stand-alone virtual appliance or a dedicated hardware appliance.

Load Balancing & Data Center Acceleration

Load balancing offloads compute-intensive functions such as SSL encryption and TCP connection processing from servers, enabling them to operate in their power band for maximum efficiency and application performance. In addition, integrated server-side acceleration functions such as connection multiplexing, in-memory caching, adaptive compression and traffic shaping may be applied to further accelerate application response times to any user, anywhere, without the need for client software.

Application-Intelligent Traffic Management

Every enterprise application and cloud service has unique requirements. By leveraging application-level intelligence, load balancing solutions can be tuned for maximum performance. Certified and validated deployment guides ensure optimized load balancing and application delivery settings.

Benefits of Application Acceleration

eCommerce

Processing SSL traffic generated by e-commerce transactions consumes a significant number of server cycles due to bulk encryption requirements and new compute-intensive 2048-bit SSL standards. By offloading SSL encryption from servers to dedicated load balancing appliances, retail and e-commerce businesses can do more with less while maximizing the performance, availability and security of their online operations.

Enterprise & SaaS Applications

Whether delivering enterprise applications to users at remote branch locations or delivering software services from the cloud to end-user customers, performance is key to driving productivity and user satisfaction. By combining load balancing and application delivery, performance can be accelerated end-to-end from the data center to end users for any enterprise application or cloud service.