AX Series: Virtualization For Cloud Computing

As Cloud Computing adoption increases, virtualization is a key enabler, driving economies of scale and the ability to scale with hardware appliances or commodity hardware.

• Delivering elasticity, flexibility and scalability for changing traffic volume
• Cost effective on-demand approach to reduce capital expenditure
• For Public or Private Clouds

New AX Series Virtualization Products & Solutions

Based on A10's award-winning AX Series Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) and Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) architecture, enterprises and service providers will have the flexibility to choose the following scale-as-you-grow virtualization options.

SoftAX SoftADC: AX virtual machine (VM) on commodity hardware Rapidly scale with commodity hardware Reduce hardware costs and upload to compatible cloud providers

AX-V Appliance SoftADC: AX virtual machine (VM) on AX Series hardware SoftAX flexibility with AX hardware performance and reliability Guaranteed performance, certifications, support and optimized hardware

AX Virtual Chassis Cluster multiple AX devices to operate as a unified single device Scale multiple AX devices with shared capacity, High Availability (HA) and single IP management Reduce cost and simplify management while adding devices as you grow

AX Virtualization Application Delivery Partitions (ADPs) divide the AX platform resources for individual applications Enables quality multi-tenancy with granular resource allocation Reduce the number of appliances to host multiple applications

All new AX Series virtualization products and features are in addition to existing integration with leading third party virtualization vendors, such as VMware and associated solutions for vSphere acceleration, vCenter dynamic provisioning and VMotion with Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB). Click here to read A10's application solutions for VMware.

Summary and Availability

SoftAX, the AX-V appliance and AX Virtual Chassis will be available in Q2. AX Virtualization is available today and its enhancements will be available throughout 2010.

The AX Series price/performance advantage and "Cloud Economics" are extended with the flexibility of virtualization and the enhanced multi-tenancy capabilities. For more information or to schedule a demonstration please contact A10 Networks at sales@a10networks.com.