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Traditionally, ADC is a hardware appliance. These days however, ADCs are available as "Virtual" appliances, built for most flavors of VMware, Hyper-V and Xen. There are lots of variables that go into deciding which one is the right solution for you, but mostly its about performance vs. platform.
Peter makes a great case for deploying ADC???s within your datacentre and I can???t agree more with the benefits of deploying this kind of technology.
What I???d like to add, however, is that you can reap even greater benefits by taking advantage of the pivotal role that ADCs occupy within the datacentre to leverage even more functionality from them. These devices become a strategic point of control, and can give you the ability do more than offload server resources or provide scale and ability. Using advanced features such as authentication offload, credential caching and layer 4-7 ACLs can deliver greater control over access to your applications, whilst simplifying your technology stack.
Deploying Web Application Firewall (WAF) functionality, providing geo-location services, or IPV4-6 translation can not only offload application workload but also application functionality, enabling you to take advantage of a set of common services across all applications, rather than deploying dedicated hardware or software. I could go on, but my main point is this: you are putting these devices into the heart of your application delivery stack, so leverage as much of the functionality as you can to drive the value form these devices.
What I???d like to add, however, is that you can reap even greater benefits by taking advantage of the pivotal role that ADCs occupy within the datacentre to leverage even more functionality from them. These devices become a strategic point of control, and can give you the ability do more than offload server resources or provide scale and ability. Using advanced features such as authentication offload, credential caching and layer 4-7 ACLs can deliver greater control over access to your applications, whilst simplifying your technology stack.
Deploying Web Application Firewall (WAF) functionality, providing geo-location services, or IPV4-6 translation can not only offload application workload but also application functionality, enabling you to take advantage of a set of common services across all applications, rather than deploying dedicated hardware or software. I could go on, but my main point is this: you are putting these devices into the heart of your application delivery stack, so leverage as much of the functionality as you can to drive the value form these devices.
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