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About Array Networks
Proven in over 5000 worldwide customer deployments, Array Networks is a global leader in application delivery networking.
Powered by SpeedCore™, Array application delivery, cloud and mobility solutions are recognized by leading enterprise, service provider and public sector organizations for unmatched performance, reliability and
total-value-of-ownership.
APV Series Application Delivery Controllers
Application delivery is undergoing dramatic change. With the advent of virtualization, public and private clouds, the explosion in mobile traffic and the move towards new standards including IPv6 and 2048-bit encryption, modern application delivery controllers must provide performance and scalability in line with the demands of mobile and cloud computing and the ability to extract maximum efficiency and ROI from application infrastructure. Array APV Series application delivery controllers address the challenges faced by enterprise, service provider and public sector organizations in the areas of application and cloud service delivery. Available as purpose-built appliances or software engineered for virtual environments, Array ADCs combine cutting-edge performance and scalability with transformative features at industry-leading price points, creating unmatched value and ROI as compared to brand name alternatives.
Overview:
- L4/L7 server load balancing
- ePolicy™ L7 application scripting
- Link load balancing and GSLB
- eRoute™ L4 routing
- Connection multiplexing
- SSL offload and acceleration
- Caching and compression
- Traffic Shaping
- WebWall™ L7 firewall
- 99.999% application availability
- Accelerate applications 5x or more
- Improve server efficiency 10x or more
Next-Gen Features:
- 64-bit SpeedCore™ architecture
- Full IPv6 support, DNS64 & NAT64
- 2048 and 4096-bit SSL acceleration
- vAPV virtual ADC
- Application virtualization
- Virtual server integration
- Stateful TCP session failover
- Application-specific certifications
- eCloud™ cloud management API
Scalable Performance:
- High-performance ADC appliances from 2 Gbps to 120 Gbps throughput
- Industry-leading HTTP and HTTPS throughput, concurrent connections, connections per second and SSL transactions per second
- Superior performance within every market segment from the mid-market to the enterprise to the service provider
Value & ROI:
- Lowest-cost L7 requests per second, lowest-cost L4 connections per second, lowest-cost SSL transactions per second and lowest-cost SSL megabits per second
- Green 1RU and 2RU space-saving designs with the lowest power consumption requirements available on the market
- Proven 6 month average time period to achieve ROI for enterprise, service provider and public sector organizations
Datasheet:
APV Series Application Delivery Controllers.PDF
Case Study:
TechProcess eCommerce Case Study.PDF
eClinicalWorks Healthcare ASP Case Study.PDF
Powered by Array’s award-winning 64-bit SpeedCore™ architecture, AppVelocity load balancers cost-effectively drive industry-leading performance across a rich server load balancing and application acceleration feature set to deliver unmatched total value of ownership. Available for Array's APV Series application delivery controllers and engineered for modern data center, cloud and virtual environments, AppVelocity load balancers boost application performance and speed return-on-investment from the small enterprise to the large service provider.
Advantages and Functions:
- Integrated L4 and L7 load balancing, global server load balancing, connection multiplexing, caching, compression, IPv6 support, application scripting, dynamic routing, traffic shaping and stateful packet inspection
- 99.999% application availability, up to 5X application acceleration and multi-layer application security
- Offload Web and application servers for increased efficiency, capacity and return on investment to ROI.
- IPv6 support for addressing IPv4 depletion enabling IPv6 migration
- ePolicy™ L7 scripting and eRoute™ L4 routing for fine grain, custom control of application traffic
- Application-specific certifications and guides for rapid deployment and optimized delivery of business critical applications
- Reverse-proxy architecture with a stateful packet-inspection firewall for guarding applications without impacting performance
- XML-RPC and eCloud™ APIs for seamless integration with cloud management systems and 3rd party monitoring solutions
- VMware vCenter integration for dynamic resource allocation and de-allocation
- Active-active clustering for up to 32 instances and seamless interaction between hardware and virtual appliances
- Active-active clustering for up to 32 instances and seamless interaction between hardware and virtual appliances
- Familiar CLI and intuitive WebUI for ease of configuration and management
- Available for Array APV Series application delivery controllers and included with vAPV virtual application delivery controllers
AppVelocity-S™ SSL Accelerators
Powered by Array’s award-winning 64-bit SpeedCore™ architecture and available for Array's APV Series application delivery controllers, AppVelocity-S SSL accelerators combine high-performance SSL acceleration with load balancing and application acceleration to create a traffic management solution ideal for ecommerce environments and applications requiring a high-degree of secure connectivity.
Advantages and Functions:
- High-performance SSL acceleration for securing data in transit, offloading compute-intensive processes from servers and improving application performance
- Hardware-based 1024, 2048 and 4096-bit SSL encryption for alignment with NIST and certificate authority security requirements
- Industry-leading SSL client certificate management, authentication and authorization and application integration
- Integrated L4 and L7 load balancing, global server load balancing, connection multiplexing, caching, compression, IPv6 support, application scripting, dynamic routing, traffic shaping and stateful packet inspection
- 99.999% application availability, up to 5X application acceleration and multi-layer application security
- Offload Web and application servers for increased efficiency, capacity and ROI
- IPv6 support for addressing IPv4 depletion enabling IPv6 migration
- ePolicy™ L7 scripting and eRoute™ L4 routing for fine grain, custom control of application traffic
- Application-specific certifications and guides for rapid deployment and optimized delivery of business critical applications
- Reverse-proxy architecture with a stateful packet-inspection firewall for guarding applications without impacting performance
- XML-RPC and eCloud™ APIs for seamless integration with cloud management systems and 3rd party monitoring solutions
- VMware vCenter integration for dynamic resource allocation and de-allocation
- Active-active clustering for up to 32 instances and seamless interaction between hardware and virtual appliances
- Familiar CLI and intuitive WebUI for ease of configuration and management
- Available for Array APV Series application delivery controllers and included with vAPV virtual application delivery controllers
Powered by Array’s award-winning 64-bit SpeedCore™ architecture, Array link load balancers intelligently analyze ISP WAN links to allocate bandwidth, assign priority and enable seamless failover for business-critical applications. Bundled as a standard feature set on Array’s AppVelocity and AppVelocity-S product editions, Array link load balancers guarantee uptime and service level agreements, reduce bandwidth costs and improve the end-user experience.
Advantages and functions:
- Enterprise and service provider-class reliability and availability for applications, data services, Web sites and VPNs across multiple WAN connections
- eRoute™ policy-based L4 routing for directing traffic over optimal WAN links and ISPs for the highest quality end-user experience
- Real-time monitoring of WAN links and connections for health, performance and utilization
- Efficient utilization of WAN bandwidth leveraging advanced bandwidth management, compression and rate shaping
- Minimize bandwidth costs and maximize connectivity by aggregating multiple low cost links
- Integrated acceleration, optimization and server offload for boosting application performance
- IPv6 support for addressing IPv4 depletion enabling IPv6 migration
- Reverse-proxy architecture with a stateful packet-inspection firewall for guarding applications without impacting performance
- XML-RPC and eCloud™ APIs for seamless integration with cloud management systems and 3rd party monitoring solutions
- Active-active clustering for up to 32 instances and seamless interaction between hardware and virtual appliances
- Familiar CLI and intuitive WebUI for ease of configuration and management
- Bundled as a standard feature set on Array’s AppVelocity and AppVelocity-S product editions
vAPV Virtual Application Delivery Controllers
Powered by Array’s award-winning 64-bit SpeedCore™ architecture, vAPV virtual application delivery controllers extend Array’s proven price-performance and rich feature set to public and private clouds and virtualized datacenter environments. vAPV virtual application delivery controllers give enterprises and service providers the agility to offer on-demand load balancing services, dynamically allocate resources to maximize ROI on application infrastructure and develop and size new application environments using either private or public clouds.
Advantages and Functions:
- Integrated L4 and L7 load balancing, link load balancing, global server load balancing, connection multiplexing, SSL acceleration, caching, compression, IPv6 support, application scripting, dynamic routing, traffic shaping and stateful packet inspection
- 99.999% application availability, up to 5X application acceleration and multi-layer application security
- IPv6 support for addressing IPv4 depletion enabling IPv6 migration
- ePolicy™ L7 scripting and eRoute™ L4 routing for fine grain, custom control of application traffic
- Application-specific certifications and guides for rapid deployment and optimized delivery of business critical applications
- Reverse-proxy architecture with a stateful packet-inspection firewall for guarding applications without impacting performance
- Intelligently load balancing application traffic across optimal WAN links to reduce costs and improve the performance of business critical applications
- Traffic burst protection automatically handles unexpected traffic increases, giving customers peace of mind and service providers incremental revenue
- Upgrades from 10Mbps to 4Gbps for scaling-up, scaling-out and scaling-down as needed
- Supports industry leading virtual environments including Citrix and VMware
- VMware vCenter integration for dynamic resource allocation and de-allocation
- Familiar CLI and intuitive WebUI for ease of configuration and management
- XML-RPC and eCloud™ APIs for seamless integration with cloud management systems and 3rd party monitoring solutions
- Active-active clustering for up to 32 hardware or virtual instances for industry-leading availability and on-demand scalability
- Common 64-bit SpeedCore architecture for industry-leading performance and seamless interaction between hardware and virtual appliances
- Low-cost developer licenses provide easy access to Array’s rich ADC feature set for create the next generation of network aware applications and services
Powered by Array’s award-winning 64-bit SpeedCore™ architecture, APV Series appliances leverage the latest in state-of-the-art multi-core processing, hardware acceleration, energy-efficient components and 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to create an integrated appliance purpose-built for application delivery. Able to sustain industry-leading performance for traffic management, security and acceleration from the small enterprise to the large service provider, APV appliances deliver feature-functionality and economies-of-scale ideal for data center modernization, virtualization and cloud services and emerging IP data services.
Advantages and Functions:
- Multi-processor, multi-core, parallel architecture for industry-leading performance and scalability
- Right-sized appliances ranging from 2Gbps to 120Gbps to meet the needs of small enterprises through large cloud service providers
- Supports AppVelocity load balancing and acceleration, AppVelocity-S SSL acceleration and NetVelocity link load balancing product editions
- High-performance hardware SSL for offloading 1024 and 2048-bit encryption from servers
- RAM-based in-memory caching
- Hardware-accelerated adaptive compression for bandwidth and application optimization
- Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet with copper, SFP fiber and SFP+ fiber connectivity
- Compact 1RU and 2RU form factors for data center environments where space is at a premium
- Green hardware platform that consumes 10-35% less power than alternative products
- Redundant power for business-critical application environments requiring 24/7 application uptime
- Redundant power for business-critical application environments requiring 24/7 application uptime
- N+1 clustering to 32 appliances for redundancy and industry-leading on-demand scalability
- Common SpeedCore platform for unified management and plug-and-play platform upgrades
AG Series Secure Access Gateways
Secure access is undergoing dramatic change. With increasing mobility, growing adoption of cloud services and a shift in thinking that favors securing data over securing networks and devices, modern enterprises require a new breed of secure access solutions. Secure access gateways centralize control over access to business critical resources, providing security for data in motion and at rest and enforcing application level policies on a per user basis. The Array AG Series secure access gateway addresses challenges faced by enterprise, service provider and pubic-sector organizations in the areas of secure access to applications and cloud services. Available in a range of scalable, purpose-built appliances or as a virtual appliance for cloud and virtualized environments, the AG Series can support multiple communities of interest, connect users both in the office and on-the-go and provide access to traditional enterprise applications as well as services running in public and private clouds.
Overview:
- Network and application-level connectivity with high-performance 1024, 2048 and 4096-bit SSL encryption and advanced end-point and server-side security
- Granular authentication and authorization via a per-user policy engine and a local authentication database for up to 500,000 users
- Up to 128,000 concurrent connections, up to 3.2Gbps SSL throughput and up to 256 virtual secure access gateway portals on a single system
Enterprise-Class:
- Up to 256 secure access gateway portals on a single system
- Remote access portals fully separate and customizable to the security and user experience requirements of individual communities of interest
- Centralized policy management for all users and communities to improve efficiency and consistency while minimizing attack vectors
Cloud-Ready:
- Regulate employee access to cloud services for accountability and control
- Single-sign on and a single user experience allow employees to seamlessly access cloud services or enterprise applications
- Allows cloud service providers to scale by giving customers secure cloud access and management control over service offerings
Mobile-Enabled:
- Secure mobile access for employees, partners and guests over WiFi or VPN connections
- Remote desktop and application publishing for BYOD that keeps mobile devices off the corporate network and eliminates data leakage
- Up to 128,000 concurrent connections for supporting connectivity from mobile devices and individual native apps enterprise-wide
Download:
AG Series Secure Access Gateway Summary.PDF
Using AccessDirect SSL VPN secure remote access, employees, partners, customers, contractors and guests need only a common Web browser to quickly and securely access the resources and applications for which they are authorized. Moreover, AccessDirect SSL VPN requires no pre-installed clients, supports a broad range of access methods, provides encrypted connectivity and end-point security, and offers industry-leading scalability and price-performance. Available for Array's AG Series secure access gateways, AccessDirect SSL VPNs strike the perfect balance of productivity and security.
Advantages and Functions:
- Anytime, anywhere browser-based secure remote access, enables increased productivity for employees, partners, tenants, customers, contractors and guests
- Up to 3.2 Gbps throughput, 128,000 concurrent users and 500,000 users on a single access gateway appliance for maintaining security and driving productivity at scale
- 256 virtual SSL VPN portals on a single appliance, customizable to the security and usability preferences of multiple tenants and communities of interest
- Per-user policy engine for identity-based access to URLs, files, networks and applications
- Controlled access from managed and un-managed devices including desktops, laptops, tablets and smart phones
- Cross-platform support for a range of operating systems and browsers
- Range of access methods including Web, Layer-3 and client-server connectivity
- High-performance 1024, 2048 and 4096-bit SSL encrypted communications
- Endpoint security including host-checking, cache cleaning and adaptive policies
- Supports a range of AAA and dual-factor authentication schemes
- No pre-installed clients; eliminates firewall and network traversal issues common to traditional VPNs
- Array Business Continuity (ABC) Contingency Licenses for affordably supporting surge remote access
- Familiar CLI and WebUI for ease of configuration and management
- Available for Array AG 1000 Series secure access gateway appliances and vxAG virtual secure access gateways
Datasheet:
AccessDirect SSL VPN Remote Access Datasheet.PDF
DesktopDirect™ Remote Desktop Access
Unlike VPNs, DesktopDirect remote desktop access enables workers to access physical and virtual office desktops from any remote location — whether they are at their home office, a customer or partner site or on a Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad or Android device. DesktopDirect leverages proven and scalable remote desktop technologies to deliver the industry's most secure and cost-effective solution for enabling tablet access and bring your own device strategies, increasing employee productivity and mitigating the effects of business continuity events.
Advantages and Functions:
- Users are always only three simple steps away from office desktops
- Full application availability without investing in additional licenses or duplicate environments
- Eliminates the possibility of data leakage because "data never leaves the corporate network"
- Reduces reliance on VPN for remote and mobile access; keeps devices off-the-network, thereby reducing cost, complexity and risk
- Enables all office employees to be productive before and after work and on weekends
- Offsets productivity and revenue losses associated with unanticipated daily occurrences such as repairs, deliveries or a sick child
- Seamlessly scales to absorb surge remote desktop access usage in the case of business continuity events
- Familiar CLI and WebUI for ease of configuration and management
- Desktop self-registration enables rapid and painless deployment
- Available for Array AG 1000 Series secure access gateway appliances and vxAG virtual secure access gateways
Datasheet:
DesktopDirect Remote Desktop Datasheet.PDF
Array Business Continuity Contingency Licenses
ABC contingency licenses offer cost-effective insurance against day-to-day and large-scale business disruptions. In addition, ABC contingency licenses enable cost-effective capacity planning for businesses with seasonal or forecasted periods of burst remote access usage.
Advantages and functions:
- Allows customers to purchase ABC contingency licenses to cost-effectively mitigate the effects of business continuity and surge usage events
- Helps prevent revenue and productivity loss and helps prevent a tarnished reputation during events such as transit strikes, snow days, floods, earthquakes and other natural disasters
- Available in 10-day denominations, triggered by exceeding standard user licenses and may be utilized in consecutive or non-consecutive 24-hour increments
- Scales to support up to 128,000 concurrent users on a single system
- Ideal solution for businesses with seasonal usage patterns, such as tax firms, educational institutions or retail establishments
- Guarantees that an entire workforce can log in simultaneously should the need arise, without IT intervention and without sacrificing security or the end-user experience
- Proven during the New York City transit strike as well as Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy
- Available for Array AG 1000 Series secure access gateway appliances and vxAG virtual secure access gateways
Datasheet:
Array Business Continuity Contingency Licenses Datasheet.PDF
vxAG Virtual Secure Access Gateway
Powered by Array’s award-winning 64-bit SpeedCore™ platform, vxAG virtual secure access gateways extend Array’s proven remote and mobile access capabilities to virtualized data centers and public and private clouds. Combining the secure access features common to all AG Series products with the flexibility afforded by virtualized infrastructure, vxAG virtual secure access gateways enable dynamic pay-as-you-grow scalablity and new elastic business models for both development and production environments. Able to support granular and differentiated secure access for diverse communities-of-interest and provide a premium user experience without compromising security, vxAG virtual secure access gateways are the ideal choice for enterprises and service providers seeking scalable and flexible secure access with the ability to support next-generation mobile and cloud applications and environments.
Advantages and functions:
- Anytime, anywhere secure access via Web or mobile clients for increasing employee, partner, customer and guest productivity
- Per-user policy engine and a range of AAA and dual-factor authentication schemes for identity-based access to URLs, files, networks and applications
- Controlled access for managed and un-managed devices and a range of operating systems and browsers
- Range of access methods including Web, Layer-3, client-server and thin-client connectivity
- High-performance 1024, 2048 and 4096-bit SSL encrypted communications
- Endpoint security including host-checking, cache cleaning and adaptive policies
- 64-bit architecture for industry-leading performance, unified management and seamless migration between physical and virtual AG Series platforms
- Familiar CLI and WebUI for ease of configuration and management
- Centralized management and clustering of multiple vxAG instances
- Low cost developers license to tap into Array APIs to create the next generation of fully secure and containerized mobile applications
- Supports industry leading virtual environments
- Non-disruptive upgrades up to 600 concurrent users and 500Mbps throughput, buy only the capacity needed for production or test and scale-up, scale-out or scale-down as needed
- Supports Array Business Continuity contingency licenses for affordable surge remote access
- Supports both AccessDirect SSL VPN remote access and DesktopDirect remote desktop functionality
Datasheet:
vxAG Virtual Secure Access Gateway Datasheet.PDF
Powered by Array's award-winning 64-bit SpeedCore™ architecture, AG 1000 Series secure access gateways leverage the latest in state-of-the-art multi-core processing, hardware SSL acceleration, energy-efficient components and 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to create an integrated appliance purpose-built for secure access. Able to support large and diverse communities-of-interest – and provide a premium user experience without compromising security – AG appliances are the ideal choice for enterprises and service providers seeking scalable and flexible secure access with the ability to support next-generation mobile and cloud computing.
Advantages and functions:
- 64-bit multi-core architecture for industry-leading performance and scalability
- Right-sized appliances supporting up to 128,000 concurrent users to meet the needs of small enterprises through large cloud service providers
- 3.2 Gbps SSL throughput and high-performance, hardware-accelerated 2048-bit SSL key processing
- Up to 256 fully customizable and secure virtual portals on a single system for supporting employee, partner and customer user groups
- Fine-grain per-user policy engine with local database for up 500,000 users
- Supports secure access for remote, local and WiFi users as well as secure mobile access from smart phones and tablets
- Cloud-ready platform provides a single point of access and reporting for cloud services
- Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet with copper, SFP fiber and SFP+ fiber connectivity
- Compact 1RU and 2RU form factors for environments where space is at a premium
- Redundant power for business-critical application environments requiring 24/7 application uptime
- Centralized management of AG Series appliances via Array CMX Series appliances
- Runs Array Access Direct™ SSL VPN remote access and Array DesktopDirect™ remote desktop access
- Array Business Continuity (ABC) Contingency Licenses for affordable surge remote access in the event of unforeseen business disruptions
Datasheet:
AG Hardware Appliances Datasheet.PDF
DesktopDirect™ Remote Desktop Appliances
Mobile devices and mobile working are driving major changes in the enterprise. More users must be able to work from anywhere and more users want to use tablets and smart phones as business productivity tools. The challenge for businesses lies in finding an approach that provides full application availability from remote devices, tablets and smart phones, while making sure that sensitive data never leaves the corporate network. DesktopDirect addresses challenges faced by enterprise organizations in the areas of mobile access, BYOD, workforce productivity and business continuity. DesktopDirect is an appliance-based remote desktop access solution, capable of extending physical and virtual office desktops to any user on any device anywhere. Moreover, DesktopDirect is fully secure and delivers unmatched ROI as compared to alternative remote and mobile access solutions.
Overview:
- Rapidly and securely “mobilizes” all existing Windows and desktop-centric enterprise applications that workers need in order to be productive
- Extends physical and virtual desktops to any personal mobile device – keeping mobile devices off the corporate network and enabling freedom of choice
- Enhances worker productivity and mitigates business disruptions by also providing desktop control from personal laptops, home PCs and kiosks
Mobility & BYOD:
- Access to physical and virtual office desktops from iPhone, iPad and Android devices with zero data leakage
- Full application availability and “data never leaves the network”
- Enable BYOD that provides workers freedom of choice in a secure manner while minimizing the cost of managing mobile devices
Productivity:
- Securely and cost effectively enable the majority of office workers to be productive before and after work and on weekends
- Guard against productivity and revenue losses caused by unanticipated occurrences such as a sick child, deliveries, repairs and car trouble
- Address the need for next-gen remote and mobile access from common platform
Business Continuity:
- Scales to support over 10,000 concurrent users on a single system with zero IT intervention
- Ensures compliance and a seamless experience for first-time business continuity users
- Contingency license certificates cost-effectively address burst business continuity usage
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CMX Series Centralized Management
The CMX 100 is designed to help enterprises and cloud service providers administrators efficiently monitor and manage the configuration of multiple Array Networks products from a central point. The management appliance provides an easy way to specify administrative privileges to different types of administrators and simplifies and speeds-up configuration management of multiple local or geographically distributed appliances. The CMX 100 provides aggregated graphical views of Array Networks products, performance, application traffic and network links. Moreover, the intuitive web browser user interface adheres to Array Networks familiar look-and-feel and requires little or no training.
Advantages & Functions:
- Centralize management of APV 600 Series , APV 200 Series and SPX 800 Series appliances
- Simplifies and speeds-up maintenance and reduces administrative costs
- Concurrent monitoring and configuration management of up to 100 Array Networks appliances. Quickly replicate configuration template to multiple appliances.
- Fine or coarse grain management, manage appliances individually or by groups
- Real time monitoring, over 30 different types of Layers 2-7 system status and traffic graphs with simultaneous views of multiple graphs for each managed device
- Visibility to quickly identify and isolate performance problems in the application delivery network to minimize the impact on your business
- Centralized repository for active and earlier versions of device configuration files for quick provisioning of new appliances or rollback
- E-mail notification/alerts to help avoid downtime and facilitate rapid recovery from faults
- Green 1U form factor appliance for data center and service provider environments where space and power are at a premium
- Local or secure remote Web browser management interface, English, Chinese (simplified and traditional) and Japanese languages support
CMX Series Web User Interface
- Configuration Management
- Configuration management
- Update, rollback or patch one or more appliances
- Standardized Configuration Files
- Between similar appliances or appliance groups
- Central Repository for Managed Appliances
- License keys, license expiration dates, configuration files, etc
- Appliance Monitor
- Deep Visibility into Application Services
- Isolate appliance, application or network problems
- Monitor multiple graphs simultaneously
- Trending and Analysis
- Pre-defined graphs
- Capacity planning and bandwidth management
- Displays up to 1 year of data
- Load Configuration
- Simplified Provisioning
- Rapidly move appliances from staging to production
- Rapidly provision new appliances
- Management Log
- Log & Timestamp All Activity
- Successful logins/failures
- Logouts and idle session timeouts
- Configuration store/push
- System patch updates
- Success/failure of an operation
- Rolling logs of up to 20K
- Script Editor
- Configuration Script Editor
- Generate and execute scripts on one or more appliances
- Support Regular Commands & Comments
- Improves readability and documentation
- Management Templates
- Pre-defined graphs
- Reusable configuration scripts
Datasheet:
SpeedCore™ Application Delivery Networking Platform
Now more than ever, CIOs and IT must support secure, real-time connectivity between applications and any user, anywhere, on any device to meet the growing demands of customers, employees and partners. With usage rapidly multiplying, delivering applications in a cost-effective manner aligned with revenues and productivity has become a business imperative. Built from the ground up to leverage Array's parallelized 64-bit multi-core architecture, the SpeedCore ADN platform delivers the performance, security and availability, plus the control and data center intelligence needed to profitably scale applications to any IP-enabled device, anywhere in the world. Capable of generating unmatched value and economies-of-scale, SpeedCore is today's application delivery networking platform of choice for capitalizing on the tidal wave of data being unleashed by the mobile Internet and next-generation services. The SpeedCore application delivery networking platform powers all Array products from APV Series Application Delivery Controllers to AG Series Secure Access Gateways to DesktopDirect™, an innovative remote desktop access solution. Conceived as a holistic platform for application delivery, SpeedCore outperforms on all fronts, from the data center to the end user. Flexibly packaged and exposed on purpose-built Array appliances, SpeedCore enables an unbeatable mix of price, performance and features for a wide range of application delivery networking requirements.
Advantages and functions:
- Enables anywhere-to-anywhere connectivity for the ultimate in worker productivity and revenue-generating service creation
- Cloud-scale performance and capacity for application security, optimization and control
- Demonstrable security for legal and compliance policies
- Up to 500% improvement in application performance
- 99.999% uptime and guaranteed SLAs for customers and business-critical applications
- Agile and extensible software architecture aligned with rapid data center evolution
- Bi-directional integration with management and monitoring systems for optimizing the performance of traditional and virtualized data center technology
- 70% less CapEx and OpEx for purchasing, deploying and managing application delivery
DataSheet:
SpeedCore Application Delivery Datasheet.PDF
Server load balancing provides scalability and high availability for applications, Web sites and cloud services by monitoring the health of servers, evenly distributing loads across servers and maintaining session persistence and a seamless user experience in the event that one or more servers become overburdened or unresponsive. Load balancing is a staple solution in virtually every data center. However, today’s application delivery controllers represent a considerable evolution from simple server load balancing. Array’s 64-bit multi-core SpeedCore™ architecture supports massive throughput and millions of concurrent connections for scaling application availability without impacting application performance. In addition, integrated traffic management and application acceleration functions including SSL acceleration, adaptive compression, dynamic caching, connection multiplexing, content routing and quality-of-service provide unparalleled control over application traffic and the ability to significantly improve application performance. For organizations deploying enterprise applications including Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange or SAP, or managed service applications such as eClinicalWorks, Array load balancing solutions have undergone extensive certification testing and ship with configuration templates and deployment guides that take the time and guess work out of application delivery. Available as dedicated appliances, virtualized multi-tenant appliances or virtual load balancers tuned for VMware and Citrix hypervisors, Array load balancers are equally at home in the data center and the cloud. Feature parity across platforms and unmatched performance, flexibility and management integration make Array’s application delivery solutions ideal for public cloud service offerings and private cloud environments. Whether you are responsible for a single application or Website, a large Internet property or a public or private cloud, Array server load balancing delivers the performance, scalability, features and value essential for accelerating your business.
Application acceleration improves the user experience to drive greater adoption and improves the efficiency of underlying infrastructure to reduce capital and operational costs. Offloading compute-intensive functions from servers, enabling application-aware traffic management and optimizing the flow of traffic over wide area networks, application acceleration solutions extract maximum performance and ROI from investments in application infrastructure. Achieving the highest levels of application performance requires optimizing servers and network connections as well as tuning applications to deliver a superior experience for a broad range of end-user profiles. Deployed as stand-alone solutions or as part of holistic solutions for application acceleration, Array application delivery controllers and WAN optimization controllers maximize the efficiency of servers and network connections and provide the application intelligence essential for optimizing performance to any user, anywhere and accelerating your business.
offloading:
- Array load balancing solutions offload CPU-intensive connection management tasks onto dedicated appliances, allowing servers to spend a greater number of cycles processing client requests. In handling social media, legacy protocols and other chatty applications, connection multiplexing is capable of aggregating millions of client connections into fewer, longer-lived back-end connections that improve server efficiency by 50% or more. Processing SSL also consumes a massive number of server cycles as a result of intensive bulk encryption and decryption, a burden that will only increase as businesses migrate from 1024-bit SSL to the more secure and computationally intense 2048-bit SSL standard. Offloading SSL from servers to dedicated Array SSL accelerators, businesses can do more with less while maximizing their ability to support secure applications, transactions and Web content.
Application Acceleration:
- In addition to improving application performance by offloading connection handling and SSL encryption, Array load balancing solutions can apply caching, compression and traffic shaping to further improve application performance. Enabling caching, client requests can be served from memory to achieve faster seek times while simultaneously freeing up cycles on backend servers. Applying compression, data retrieved from servers can be optimized to more efficiently utilize bandwidth; by reducing the amount of data sent over the network, compression allows businesses to do more with less while at the same time improving response times for end users. For businesses that need to ensure mission-critical applications take precedence over non-essential traffic, traffic shaping may be applied to guarantee bandwidth and maintain SLAs. To help businesses tune applications for maximum performance, Array provides deployment guides and configuration blueprints for individual enterprise applications. Load balancing deployment guides, tested and certified by Microsoft, SAP, eClinicalWorks and others, take the guesswork out of ensuring maximum performance and availability, while WAN optimization blueprints ensure that Office, SharePoint, Outlook, CIFS, MAPI, HTML, IBM, SAP and others common enterprise applications operate as efficiently as possible over wide area networks.
WAN Optimization:
- WAN optimization reduces responses times for applications accessed over wide area networks by minimizing the traffic that travels between remote offices and data centers, public and private clouds and remote users. By mitigating the effects of limited bandwidth, high latency, packet loss and network congestion on application performance, WAN optimization reduces end-user response times by 95% or more and ensures a LAN-like experience regardless where users access applications and data.
Mobile Acceleration:
- Because WAN optimization appliances are not cost-effective or practical for remote users, a mobile client is provided to accelerate traffic between individual devices and WAN optimization appliances in the data center or cloud. Installing Array mobile clients, bandwidth consumption is commonly reduced by 60-95% and files download up to 20 times faster to produce a computing experience optimized for higher overall productivity.
Secure Mobile Access to Enterprise Application
Array secure mobile access solutions address the technology challenges of mobile and remote access, as well as the business challenges of bring your own device (BYOD), to securely and cost-effectively mobilize operations for enhanced enterprise productivity. Regardless where your users are or what device they are on, Array mobility solutions provide instant access to enterprise applications without the risk of attack or data leakage.
- Because traditional enterprise applications outnumber newly developed mobile apps for business, mobility solutions must address the need to ‘mobilize’ desktop and Windows-centric applications. Array’s mobile access solution is uniquely capable of extending applications on PCs, laptops, virtual desktops and terminal servers to tablets and smart phones without the risk of data leakage.
- Remote desktop access leverages proven, scalable and secure technologies to give employees control over their physical or virtual office desktops from anywhere - so they can intuitively get to work, even when they can't get to the office.
- The consumerization of IT is in full swing. Workers want tablet access to business applications, often from personal devices. Array’s BYOD solution allows the safe use of any personal device and seamlessly ‘mobilizes’ any enterprise application. Moreover, Array’s BYOD solution provides a cost-effective path to mobile access that does not expose the corporate network and fully eliminates data leakage.
- Secure remote access increases business productivity by enabling employees on the go, telecommuters, extranet partners, customers and other authorized users to remotely access business critical applications and resources over a secure VPN connection.
Because WAN optimization appliances are not cost-effective or practical for remote users, a mobile client is provided to accelerate traffic between individual devices and WAN optimization appliances in the data center or cloud. Installing Array mobile clients, bandwidth consumption is commonly reduced by 60-95% and files download up to 20 times faster to produce a computing experience optimized for higher overall productivity.
- With the introduction of Exchange 2010, Microsoft made an architecture change that requires the use of client access servers. With this change, Microsoft recommends the use of dedicated load balancing to deploy Exchange services. Array application delivery controllers are Microsoft qualified to provide high availability for Exchange 2010 and go beyond basic load balancing to accelerate application performance, enhance data security and improve the efficiency of data center infrastructure.
SAP:
- Array load balancing and application delivery solutions are SAP-certified as interoperable with NetWeaver 7.0. Leveraging configuration templates and proven optimizations, SAP applications can be rapidly optimized for improved availability, performance and security, and deployed in a manner that maximizes the efficiency of application infrastructure and reduces total cost of ownership.
- The real-time nature of services provided by Microsoft Lync Server 2010, combined with the business-critical status of the underlying software applications, makes high availability a must. Array load balancing solutions are Microsoft qualified to provide high availability for Lync Server 2010; in addition, application acceleration features including caching, compression and SSL acceleration combine to ensure industry-leading responsiveness for collaboration services.
- Array load balancing solutions ensure that eClinicalWorks applications are secure and performing at the highest level possible. For PM and EMR applications running in enterprise environments, performance and interoperability testing demonstrate a 150% to 200% improvement in application response times when running eCW in conjunction with Array application delivery controllers.
In today’s world of mobility, cloud-computing and business-to-business interdependence, traditional firewalls are just a first line of defense. For business-critical resources and applications, zero-trust models are needed that hold all users to uniform security standards. Array secure access solutions create centralized enforcement points for enterprise and service provider networks that ensure security and connect authenticated users with authorized resources anytime, anywhere.
- Array enterprise remote access solutions deliver scalable secure access and remote desktop services for employees, partners, guests and customers on a single high-performance appliance, providing a secure perimeter for business applications from which identity-based access can be extended to any user, anywhere.
- For cloud operators expanding their service offerings and growing their global presence, Array’s secure cloud access solutions are ideal for managing backend customer and service networks at distributed data centers. In addition to providing partitioned secure access for operators and their customers, secure cloud access enables customer-facing admin portals and cloud management system integration for automating and streamlining service provisioning.
- The two largest challenges to enterprise mobility are security and the lack of native mobile applications for business. Array’s secure mobile access solution mobilizes existing Windows-centric enterprise applications – and provides connectivity for future native apps – in a manner that keeps data secure within the protected corporate network and provides access without the need for VPN connectivity.
Array tablet access solutions securely publish enterprise applications for use on mobile devices. Whether your applications run on desktop PCs, laptops, virtual infrastructure or terminal servers, Array’s tablet access solution enables identity-based access from any mobile device to specific enterprise applications in a manner that streamlines the user experience while improving security and enhancing operational efficiency. Security and a lack of native mobile apps for business are two of the largest hurdles to enterprise mobility. Although native apps for business are increasing in number, most enterprise applications still run in more traditional environments such as on desktop PCs, laptops, virtual infrastructure or terminal servers. With the unique ability to mobilize these desktop applications, Array DesktopDirect™ allows organizations to quickly deploy tablet access solutions leveraging existing infrastructure. In addition to mobilizing enterprise desktop applications, DesktopDirect also guards against attack and data leakage by leveraging a reverse proxy architecture that keeps mobile devices off the network. Because mobile devices connect to the DesktopDirect appliance over a secured SSL connection and because users access applications using remote desktop, data never leaves the corporate network and never resides on tablets and smart phones.
Mobilize Any Application:
- While mobility and native enterprise applications are experiencing rapid growth, the majority of applications workers use every day to be productive are found on traditional Windows desktops and servers. Because physical or virtual application environments are provided to all employees, the DesktopDirect solution can enable tablet access enterprise-wide, without the need for additional hardware, software or application licenses.
Eliminate Data Leakage:
- DesktopDirect is an appliance-based solution that is enterprise owned and operated; unlike managed services, it is under full IT control and does not open the corporate network to third-parties. Connectivity from tablets is encrypted over SSL and the Array appliance acts as a secure proxy, preventing tablets from connecting directly to the corporate network. Because tablets are kept “off-network”, the security and compliance of office resources is maintained and the potential for attack is eliminated. Because users remotely control office desktops and applications, data never leaves the corporate network, never exists on tablets and never mixes with personal data - fully eliminating the potential for data leakage.
Use Any Mobile Device:
- DesktopDirect supports remote desktop and application access from any iOS or Android tablet or smart phone. Deploying DesktopDirect, businesses gain a complete solution that enables tablet access and drives business productivity in addition to supporting freedom of choice for employees. IT does not have to support multiple platforms and OS versions and does not have to worry about purchasing or developing applications for multiple mobile environments.
Reduce Complexity:
- Repurchasing or redeveloping enterprise applications for every mobile platform and version is time and cost prohibitive, as is scaling virtualization to serve the needs of every employee. DesktopDirect is an ideal complement to existing native mobile app solutions and supports any mix physical or virtual desktops and applications. In this manner, existing infrastructure is maximized, the need for additional hardware and software is minimized and businesses can expand investments in native mobile apps and virtualization in an intelligent and cost-conscious manner. What’s more, the DesktopDirect solution can be set up in as little as a few hours and can achieve ROI in the time it takes to deploy other solutions.
The consumerization of IT is in full swing. Workers want tablet access to business applications, often from personal devices. Array’s bring-your-own-device solution enables seamless ‘mobilization’ of any enterprise application to any personal device. Moreover, Array’s BYOD solution provides a rapid, cost-effective path to mobility that does not expose the corporate network and fully eliminates data leakage. DesktopDirect™ is an innovative, appliance-based remote desktop solution for bring your own device that enables workers to access physical or virtual office desktops and applications from any device or location. Whether users are on their home PCs, on a laptop at a customer or partner site or on an iPhone, iPad or Android device, they can work just as if they were sitting in the office without the risk of data leaving the network. The DesktopDirect appliance is installed on the corporate network and integrates with existing identity management solutions to establish user credentials. Physical or virtual office desktops and applications are registered for remote and mobile access either by users or IT or automatically via a database. To use a personal device to remotely control office desktops or applications, users need only a common Web browser or the free DesktopDirect mobile app for smart phones and tablets. Users simply launch a browser or mobile app, log in and begin using their registered applications and desktops.
Mobilize Any Application:
- While mobility and native enterprise applications are experiencing rapid growth, the majority of applications workers use every day to be productive are found on traditional Windows desktops and servers. Because physical or virtual application environments are provided to all employees, the DesktopDirect solution can enable tablet access enterprise-wide, without the need for additional hardware, software or application licenses.
Eliminate Data Leakage:
- DesktopDirect is an appliance-based solution that is enterprise owned and operated; unlike managed services, it is under full IT control and does not open the corporate network to third-parties. Connectivity from tablets is encrypted over SSL and the Array appliance acts as a secure proxy, preventing tablets from connecting directly to the corporate network. Because tablets are kept “off-network”, the security and compliance of office resources is maintained and the potential for attack is eliminated. Because users remotely control office desktops and applications, data never leaves the corporate network, never exists on tablets and never mixes with personal data - fully eliminating the potential for data leakage.
Use Any Mobile Device:
- DesktopDirect supports remote desktop and application access from any iOS or Android tablet or smart phone. Deploying DesktopDirect, businesses gain a complete solution that enables tablet access and drives business productivity in addition to supporting freedom of choice for employees. IT does not have to support multiple platforms and OS versions and does not have to worry about purchasing or developing applications for multiple mobile environments.
Reduce Complexity:
- Repurchasing or redeveloping enterprise applications for every mobile platform and version is time and cost prohibitive, as is scaling virtualization to serve the needs of every employee. DesktopDirect is an ideal complement to existing native mobile app solutions and supports any mix physical or virtual desktops and applications. In this manner, existing infrastructure is maximized, the need for additional hardware and software is minimized and businesses can expand investments in native mobile apps and virtualization in an intelligent and cost-conscious manner. What’s more, the DesktopDirect solution can be set up in as little as a few hours and can achieve ROI in the time it takes to deploy other solutions.
Remote working is on the rise. More employees want to telecommute, put in hours on nights and weekends and work from home when faced with unforeseen events. Array’s DesktopDirect solution leverages proven remote desktop protocol technology to enable scalable, secure and cost-effective remote access and provide a compelling alternative to the cost, complexity and data leakage concerns inherent to traditional VPNs. Mitigating risks associated with business continuity events and increasing employee productivity are driving increased demand for remote access. While traditional VPNs are well suited for giving remote access to employees with managed laptops, they are not as adept as RDP solutions for supporting office workers who are often issued desktop PCs, terminals, workstations or virtual desktops. The expense of VPN hardware and licenses, laptops, security software, bandwidth and training does not scale cost-effectively for these users. In addition, every laptop with sensitive data is a security risk and every VPN connection creates an attack vector to the corporate network. Array’s DesktopDirect™ is not a VPN, rather it is an appliance-based solution that leverages proven remote desktop protocol and SSL technologies to allow workers to remotely connect to office PCs from any device, anywhere. No additional laptops, software or training are required; remote access can be cost-effectively scaled for as many workers as needed from a single appliance. What’s more, because data never leaves the network and remote devices never directly connect to the corporate network, security is assured.
Business Continuity:
- Business continuity events are not the time to purchase, deploy or activate remote access capability. Business continuity remote access must seamlessly scale to support burst usage without IT intervention and without helpdesk support. Array’s DesktopDirect solution supports thousands of users on a single system with zero IT intervention, ensures compliance is maintained during business continuity events and provides a seamless experience for first time users. In addition, affordable contingency licenses provide a cost-effective means to support burst usage.
Workforce Productivity:
- Increasing employee productivity goes hand-in-hand with maintaining and gaining a competitive advantage. Array’s DesktopDirect solution securely and cost-effectively enables office workers to be productive before and after work and on weekends. In addition, it guards against productivity loss caused by unanticipated occurrences such as a sick child, home deliveries, repairs and car trouble. Empowering office employees to work anytime, anywhere, remote desktop is an affordable solution for rapidly increasing business productivity and competitive advantage.
Secure remote access increases business productivity by enabling mobile employees, home workers, extranet partners, customers and other authorized users to remotely access business critical applications and resources over a VPN connection. In today’s business environment, disparate business units, project groups, partners, contractors and guests all require remote access. What’s more, they require different levels of remote access and often require a user experience tailored to their unique requirements. Traditional VPNs fall short of these demands and suffer from reluctance on the part of IT to issue managed devices to every employee, partner and contractor. Array SSL VPN secure remote access solutions provide an alternative that offers greater levels of security, a greater range of access methods, a broader range of device support and the ability to provide differentiated, identity-based access tailored to the needs of multiple communities of interest.
On-Demand Access:
- Unlike legacy VPNs that require clients on remote devices, SSL VPNs need only a common Web browser to access productivity enhancing files and business applications. Ubiquitous SSL and comprehensive security means employees, partners, contractors and guests can utilize any device - personal, public or managed - to gain access to authorized corporate resources. Administrators may configure Web access, network-level access or access to specific client-server or thin client applications, and may configure varying degrees of access based on device type, location, security posture and roles within the organization.
End-to-End Security:
- Array secure remote access solutions provide protection for data at rest and data in motion. Host-checking and end-point security scan the health and posture of remote devices before and after granting access, actively adapting policies based on IT-defined parameters to prevent data leakage. 2048-bit encryption and comprehensive AAA protect data in transit, ensure that only authenticated users have access to authorized resources and provide detailed audit reports for compliance and accountability. Moreover, integrated SSL VPN firewall capability and a reverse-proxy architecture provide additional layers of separation and protection between remote devices and the corporate network.
Multi-Tenant Platform:
- To meet the remote access and security requirements of multiple business units, partners, contractors and guests, Array solutions support up 256 virtual secure remote access portals on a single system. Every virtual portal is fully separate and may be associated with fully segmented networks on the back end, ensuring total security for each community of interest. Virtual portals may also have their own resources and look and feel and be configured and managed independently.
Performance & Scalability:
- Applications run fast in the office, but delivering them over the Internet is a different story. Array remote access solutions boast the lowest possible latency for delivering files and applications to mobile users anytime, anywhere. Multiple acceleration technologies and a scalable, 64-bit multi-core architecture combine to effortlessly support from hundreds to tens of thousands of concurrent users on a single system while maintaining a premium, productivity-enhancing end-user experience.
Array access gateways support secure remote access, remote desktop and wireless access for workers, partners, guests and customers on one high-performance appliance, providing a secure perimeter for business applications, from which identity-based access can be extended to any user, anywhere. With the explosion in mobility and increasing threats from within, traditional firewalls are merely a first line of defense. A new perimeter is required to guard business-critical resources. Unified enforcement and zero-trust models are required for connecting users and applications and holding users to the same standard, whether internal, external, employee or third-party. Array enterprise remote access solutions provide organizations with a flexible, unified technology that reduces the number of entry points for malicious activity, ensures consistent security and creates operational efficiency in managing secure access. Supporting a mix of Web, Layer-3, client-server and thin-client access methods, Array remote access solutions dynamically authorize connectivity and available resources based on user, device, location and client security posture. Clientless browser-based access supports connectivity from any personal or managed computer and mobile apps for iOS and Android enable connectivity from smart phones and tablets. Whether users access remotely over the Internet or internally via wireless networks, each device is scanned for malware, anti-virus software, OS updates and device identity and each user is subject to authentication and authorization prior to gaining access to applications and resources. Once connected, all traffic between clients and the Array enterprise gateway is secured over SSL and all activity is audited. Built on Array’s 64-bit SpeedCore™ application delivery networking platform, Array enterprise remote access solutions are able to support up to hundreds of fully separate communities of interest and tens of thousands of concurrent users on a single system. For organizations looking to consolidate and scale remote and mobile access enterprise-wide, Array offers an unbeatable mix of access methods, end-to-end security, device compatibility, performance and multi-tenant support.
Employees:
- Support for up to 128,000 concurrent users and up to 3.2Gbps throughput gives Array enterprise remote access solutions the horsepower to accommodate an entire workforce on a single system. In addition, support for up to 256 fully-partitioned virtual portals allows Array solutions to deliver remote access customized to the unique security and design requirements of multiple communities of interest.
Partners:
- Array enterprise remote access gives businesses improved control over partner access to corporate data and applications. By substituting network-level VPN access for Web proxy extranet access, partners may be assigned their own portals and resources without exposing the broader corporate network.
Guests:
- Leveraging Array remote access, organizations no longer need to deploy separate wireless networks to support guest access. Guests and employees can be routed to separate virtual portals and VLANs on a shared wireless infrastructure, giving employees full network access while giving guests restricted access to only the Internet.
Customers:
- In a constantly evolving threat landscape, baseline SSL encryption does not provide customers with sufficient security. Deploying scalable Array enterprise remote access solutions, customer transactions can take place over 2048-bit SSL and take place within fully separate portals that regulate access based on client security posture.
The two largest challenges to enterprise mobility are security and a lack of business-oriented native applications. Array’s secure mobile accesssolutions mobilize existing Windows and enterprise desktop applications and provide application-level connectivity for native mobile applications in a manner that keeps data secure on the corporate network and provides access without the need for network-level VPN connectivity. Traditional VPNs give remote users full access to the corporate network. Securing VPN access requires protections on remote devices and configurations that restrict access only to authorized resources. This works for managed laptops, but demand for mobile access and bring your own device is creating new complexities with respect to infrastructure, security and operations. Mobility is driven primarily by apps. While the number of mobile apps for business will continue to grow, most enterprises are driven by Windows applications. To address security and the immediate need for mobile access to business applications, a growing number of organizations are delivering applications from laptops, desktop PCs, virtual desktops and terminal servers to mobile devices. Array secure mobile access solutions provide secure connectivity to Windows applications from tablets and smart phones without the need for VPN connectivity and without the need for personal devices to be present on the corporate network. An Array gateway on the corporate network connects to laptops, desktop PCs, virtual desktops and terminal servers on the backend and proxies applications over an SSL connection to a secure Array mobile app on tablets and smart phones. Leveraging Array’s secure mobile access solution, sensitive data remains protected on the enterprise network and is accessible anytime, anywhere. In addition, for businesses using a range of technologies to host Windows applications, Array consolidates mobile access on a unified architecture to deliver consistent security policies, greater operational efficiency and a seamless end-user experience. For secure connectivity to native mobile applications, application-level SSL connections can be enabled by way of integrating with Array APIs as a part of the application development process. Where integration is not an option, Array’s mobile VPN may be used in conjunction with mobile device management to provide a level of secure connectivity for native apps.
Desktop Applications:
- Applications and resources residing on physical desktops are published to mobile devices in a manner that keeps personal tablets and smart phones off the network. Data leakage is prevented without the need for MDM solutions. Automated self-provisioning and power management ease deployment and ensure applications are available when and where they are needed.
Virtual Applications:
- Applications and desktops residing on Microsoft Terminal Servers or virtualized VMware and Citrix infrastructure are published to mobile devices in a manner that keeps personal tablets and smart phones off the network. Data leakage is prevented without the need for MDM solutions. Gateway consolidation improves security, operational efficiency and the user experience.
Native Mobile Application:
- Applications and desktops residing on Microsoft Terminal Servers or virtualized VMware and Citrix infrastructure are published to mobile devices in a manner that keeps personal tablets and smart phones off the network. Data leakage is prevented without the need for MDM solutions. Gateway consolidation improves security, operational efficiency and the user experience. Where development integration is not an option, Array’s mobile VPN may be used to provide encrypted connectivity for mobile devices. Mobile VPN allows personal tablets and smart phones on the network; to ensure security and guard against data leakage, mobile device management and mobile information management solutions are strongly recommended.
For cloud operators growing their business, Array’s secure cloud access solution is ideal for managing backend customer and service networks at distributed points-of-presence. In addition to providing partitioned secure access for operators and their customers, Array’s secure cloud access solution enables customer-facing administration portals and cloud management system integration for automating and streamlining service provisioning. Array secure cloud access solutions allow cloud operators to manage back-end systems by providing secure access to their private network segments at distributed data centers and points-of-presence. The secure cloud access solution also allows cloud operators to provide customers with secure portals from which to manage their account and services. The solution partitions operator networks from public customer networks, and provides network separation between customers for service management within multi-tenant environments. Moreover, the secure cloud access solution provides out-of-band connectivity that allows customer administrators to perform management tasks and transfer data without sacrificing bandwidth to their services. Engineered to provide scalable secure access in multi-tenant environments at distributed data centers, Array secure cloud access solutions are field-proven to support thousands of individual customers within cloud operator points-of-presence. Able to meet customer requirements for data security and regulatory compliance, and provide the management integration and scalability required by cloud operators, Array secure cloud access solutions are ideal for IaaS and SaaS providers seeking to offer a seamless customer experience and benefit from the cost benefits of service automation.
Microsoft® Exchange® Server is the industry leading messaging platform for businesses. With Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft has extended the platform to enable user access to e-mail, voice mail and instant messaging from any device anywhere using industry standard protocols. In Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft made a major architecture change that requires all user access to go through Client Access Servers (CAS). With this architecture change, Microsoft highly recommends the use of dedicated appliances for Exchange 2010 load balancing. Array APV Series application delivery controllers, which integrate load balancing, SSL acceleration and other service optimization capabilities, are an integral component of any enterprise Exchange deployment, intelligently optimizing and load balancing Exchange 2010 traffic across CAS servers for the highest level of availability and the best local and global user experience. Array Networks has partnered with Microsoft to create a joint solution for Exchange load balancing that accelerates, secures and optimizes mail services and enables businesses to gain the greatest value possible from their investment in Microsoft applications.
Advantages and functions:
- Improved user response times and a superior user experience as a result of load balancing requests among Exchange servers and compressing traffic so less data is transferred between the user and the Exchange environment
- Local and global availability that ensures Exchange services are not interrupted in the event that servers, internet connections or data centers are offline or otherwise compromised
- Savings and accelerated ROI as a result of reduced server footprint, software licensing, bandwidth requirements and energy costs
Array APV Series application delivery controllers enhance the availability, performance and security of SAP applications. To ensure maximum performance with minimum down time, all Array SAP load balancing solutions are validated and certified by SAP for enterprise-class reliability. The certification guarantees interoperability - even for complex global application landscapes - and contains proven and optimized configurations for integrating advanced ADC functionality with SAP applications in a manner that reduces deployment time and total cost of ownership. Array application delivery controllers support all of the server load balancing functions required for SAP deployment, including Layer 4-7 SAP load balancing, high availability, SSL acceleration and offloading, DDoS protection, connection multiplexing, caching and compression – all from a single, easy-to-manage appliance.
Advantages and Functions:
- Server load balancing for distributing user requests across multiple cluster nodes of a single SAP application instance
- Off-loading TCP connection management, compression and SSL processing from SAP servers to enhance performance
- Reverse proxy service for mapping URLs from different internal network domains and servers to one or more external URLs and domains
- 24x7 Application Access 24x7 access and 99.999% uptime for SAP applications. Unavailable servers are detected and traffic is dynamically directed across other available servers such that users receive a seamless SAP experience.
- SSL Offloading & Acceleration Offload SSL from SAP applications and encrypt all user and web services traffic. Enables SAP applications to focus on serving content to end users and other E-SOA components without performance degradation. Reduces server resource utilization through offloading process-intensive SSL encryption and decryption functions onto the Array appliance.
- Application and Network Protection Protects SAP applications and SAP E-SOA components (servers and services) from malicious attacks, secures user transactions and increases the performance and scalability of applications. Leverages high-performance ACLs to protect servers from DDoS attacks like syn floods, TCP port scans, UDP floods and UDP port scans.
- Reduce Server Infrastructure Intelligent HTTP engine serves client sessions using fewer TCP connections. Improves response times by reusing existing connections to serve application traffic and reduces the burden of maintaining TCP connections to allow servers to focus finite resources on application specific tasks. Reduces SAP application software and hardware license costs in addition to reducing IT management costs and data center footprint.
- Offloading Business Logic Perform session persistence at Layer 7 to SAP NetWeaver portal® servers and backend servers for optimized user experience. Inserting cookies to ensure that users are served by the same SAP NetWeaver portal and that persistence is maintained for the duration of the session.
- HTTP Caching Intelligently serve frequently requested content for SAP applications from an in-memory cache to free up CPU cycles for SAP applications. Enables SAP applications to scale to server capacity, serving more users and sessions while dramatically improving response times.
- HTTP Compression Improve end-user response times by compressing data sent over the WAN. Adjusts optimization and speed based on WAN latency and packet loss to ensure all users get best possible experience. Offloads CPU intensive compression processing from SAP application servers, allowing them to serve content instantly.
Microsoft® Lync® Server 2010 was released on November 2010 as the successor to Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, commonly known as OCS. Microsoft Lync Server 2010 is an integral component in Microsoft’s Unified Communications platform that makes it easier for people to communicate regardless of location. The real-time nature of services provided by Microsoft Lync Server 2010, combined with the business-critical status of the underlying software applications, requires Lync load balancing and high-availability for IT departments implementing Microsoft Lync Server 2010. Array Networks APV Series application delivery controllers make certain that both end users and administrators obtain an optimal user experience by providing a highly available and scalable platform that achieves the highest levels of reliability through network optimization. Unified client applications are more responsive when supported by Array Lync 2010 load balancing solutions because application health monitoring, intelligent load balancing and a suite of network optimizations ensure the highest levels of reliability and performance in the delivery of Microsoft services.
Advantages and functions:
- Scalability Enterprises can provide Lync 2010 services to a large number of employees, load balancing clients to optimal Lync servers at every given point in time
- High Availability Ensure guaranteed uptime, even if a Lync server goes offline or into maintenance mode
- High Performance End users are able to access Lync applications faster due to multiple Lync server optimizations such as HTTP compression
- Security Array’s Lync 2010 load balancing solution protects services from malicious traffic such as DDoS attacks
- Flexibility Lync server accessibility to IM, conferencing, desktop sharing, presence and voice is optimized using transparent load balancing
Array APV Series application delivery controllers ensure that eClinicalWorks electronic medical record (EMR) and patient management (PM) applications perform at the highest level possible to deliver a premium user experience and increased productivity for medical professionals and healthcare organizations. APV Series application delivery controller technology plays an essential role in the eCW data center, providing scalability, availability, performance and security for software-as-a-serve (SaaS) offerings. For organizations running EMR and PM applications on-premises, eClinicalWorks has partnered with Array to ensure that client-server deployments deliver the same high level of application performance and security as their industry-leading cloud service. eClinicalWorks load balancing ensures that individual servers are not overloaded and ensures that each user consistently receives a reliable, low-latency experience. eCW load balancing also ensures that applications remain available 24/7 should one or more servers go offline. Offloading SSL encryption from servers to dedicated hardware, maximum security can be assured for patient data while at the same time improving server efficiency. Enabling additional APV Series features including caching, compression, connection multiplexing, link and global server load balancing, Web firewall and centralized certificate management, healthcare organizations can cost-effectively scale their operations while simultaneously offering customers applications with superior levels of performance, availability and security.
Advantages and functions:
- Proven track record of eClinicalWorks load balancing in the cloud and supporting EMR and PM applications on site at over 200 healthcare organizations
- Tuning of eClinicalWorks application performance based on in-depth understanding of logic bottlenecks
- Accelerates eClinicalWorks EMR and PM applications by 150% to 200%
- Reduces the number of server side connections by 15 times or more
- Reduces common query operations by 50% on average
- Reliable, high-performance SSL encrypted access to healthcare applications
- Meets and exceeds HIPAA compliance standards
- Range of right-sized hardware appliances, each providing an optimum balance of features and performance at the right price point for organizations large and small
- Industry-leading price-performance