Application Delivery: Adding Scalability & Flexibility While Reducing Costs

Todd Harcourt

Senior System Engineer, South Central Region

www.a10networks.com

Agenda

Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs)

Cost Reduction while adding functionality

Capacity requirements

Data center consolidation

Virtualization opportunities

Server (and network) optimization

Licensing

Summary & conclusion

A10 Networks Overview

Corporate Vision:

Founder:

A10 Expertise:

Headquarters:

To be the technology leader in Web Application Delivery solutions

Lee Chen, co-founder of Foundry Networks

& Centillion Networks

Networking, Applications & Security

San Jose, California. Local offices worldwide.

Users

Cloud

Data Center

Availability

Scalability

What are Application Delivery Controllers?

Security

Capacity Requirements

Concerns

Regular load

Peak loads

Growth

Monetize metrics

$ per Gb throughput

$ per connection per second

Cost to Provide Capacity

Data Center Consolidation Factors

Performance

Consolidation ratio

New feature impact

Maintenance costs

Rack space costs

Power & environmental costs

Performance Per Watt (PPW)

70% or 12 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) being eliminated per pair, per year

Energy Costs

Virtualization Opportunities

CAPEX & OPEX reduction

Flexibility & portability

Shared platforms

Single shared application

Multiple applications

Elastic infrastructure

Vertical & horizontal scaling

SoftADC

Server (and Network) Optimization

Off-load compute intensive functions

Optimize network communications

Eliminate repetitive functions

Reduce management overhead

Bigger impact on virtual machines

Licensing Impact

Extra $ for features or for performance?

Pay as you grow or “pay us more as you grow”?

Better to include upfront

The 5 button blender is better than the 3 button

Will you use the feature?

Moot point if all-inclusive

A10 Application Delivery Offerings

Flexible Advanced ADC choice

Hardware and/or software

Internal AX appliance virtualization

Comprehensive 3rd party integration

Dynamic Datacenter Provisioning

Infrastructure reacts to demand for “elasticity”

VMware vCenter changes AX Series configuration

Triggered by server

CPU utilization

Memory usage

AX Series: Application Delivery Controller

Platform: Advanced Features & High Performance

Leverage multiple Layer 4-7 features without performance degradation

• 64-bit ACOS

• Multi-core CPU System

• Global Server Load

Balancing

• TCP Optimization

• Secure Email

• IPv4/IPv6

• Layer 7 Scripting

• DNS Application Firewall

• SIP Load Balancing

• Hardware SSL

Acceleration

• Spam Filter (PBSLB)

• Line Rate DDoS

Security

• High Availability

• Caching &

Compression

AX Series Hardware & ACOS Performance

AX Series Hardware & ACOS Performance

Increased Performance & Reduced Cost

Summary – Beyond the Purchase Price

Capacity for peak loads & consolidation

Virtualization is flexible & cost effective

Server (and network) optimization are key

Licensing, read the fine print

Thank You

Todd Harcourt

Senior System Engineer, South Central Region

www.a10networks.com