White Papers

Multi-tenancy provided by virtualization technology is a rising topic for IT management; an increasing number of enterprises plan to transition towards cloud architectures to operate complex applications. Server virtualization technologies have delivered a wealth of benefits through increased adoption within the past few years by enterprises of all sizes. Benefits range from consolidated resource efficiency leveraged from virtual machines, to enhanced performance of immediate disaster recovery solutions, increasing business agility and continuity, as well as proven quick return on investment solutions.

This white paper talks about A10's Application Delivery Partition (ADP) feature within the AX Series and its value for enterprises seeking cost efficient, time efficient and management efficient solutions, using the popular Microsoft Lync software as the application example.

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Internet users today are much more alert about web security than just a few years ago. People are all too aware of potential malicious activities that can compromise their personal information or worse. TLS/SSL is used to ensure the communication between a client and the application is encrypted, so even if the transaction is intercepted, the content can't be read by a third party.

The encryption strength is determined in part by the key length. The minimum key length that is supported by Certificate Authorities and web browsers changed from 1024 to 2048-bit. Many environments such as banking and financial institutions operate with higher security standards and will require stronger encryption and therefore longer key lengths such as 4096-bit, to guarantee higher degrees of data security.

In this white paper, you will learn about the impact of higher key lengths to CPU performance, and the advantages of the AX Series' new SSL acceleration hardware...

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The AX Series Application Delivery Controllers accelerate and optimize Microsoft SharePoint deployments. In this white paper you will learn how specific AX Series features such as SSL Offload, TCP Connection Reuse, RAM Caching and HTTP Compression improve the capabilities of a SharePoint solution...

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For at least 10 years experts have been predicting exhaustion of the assignable IPv4 address space. The timeline for this prediction has never been exact, but an accelerated reduction in the IPv4 address space driven by sharp increase in demand is occurring.

IPv6 removed the IP address scarcity by creating a new address space with vastly more potential addresses...

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This white paper presents an overview of the A10 Networks AX Series family and their capabilities as they pertain to the Diameter protocol. This white paper covers how the AX Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs), which are new generation server load balancers, can support different types of Diameter applications; and outlines the benefits of deploying the AX device in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure. This white paper also describes how integrating an AX device into an IMS infrastructure can improve reliability, scalability, security, and availability, in order to support the growing demands of all IP-based interface Long Term Evolution (LTE), High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) networks. This white paper can be used as a reference for deploying the AX Series device in new, existing, or proprietary Diameter applications...

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In today's business environment, companies rely heavily on Web-based applications to communicate and conduct transactions both externally and internally. With more people accessing Websites via smart phones, new third party applications, news sites, blogs, social networking and video and picture Websites, Internet traffic to Websites continues to increase significantly, and shows no signs of slowing down. More and more processing power is being required at data aggregation points such as load balancers and application delivery controllers...

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This paper gives a high level view of DNSSEC and its current rollout status, with emphasis upon the networking challenges of "intermediate devices", those between the DNS Server and the DNS Client (Resolver). A10 Networks' AX Series Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solves challenges faced by organizations as they move to this more secure implementation of DNS, specifically offering DNSSEC compatibility, greater ADC performance, load balancing, DNS server efficiency and greater DNS server security...

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Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) is one of the most popular load balancing technologies today. A10's GSLB functionality is a key differentiator in the high-performance and highly scalable AX Series due to seamless implementation and exceptional value...

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A common trend in today's distributed work environment is to centralize applications and the data previously hosted in individual branch offices. The driving factor for this centralization is the need to simplify management of the application infrastructure, which in turn helps to reduce cost and increase overall control and performance. While there are clear benefits with such a model, this centralization also comes with its share of challenges for those responsible for the application and network infrastructure...

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Overview
Network surveillance systems and forensics tools have long used IP addresses to identify the source of trouble, attack, or abuse. Quickly correlating each IP address to an individual user is absolutely critical for incident response, threat containment, troubleshooting, and compliance reporting. However, manual IP-to-ID mapping can be tedious, time consuming -- even impossible. Learn now A10's IP-to-ID service and help automate identity resolution and eliminate information gaps to speed identity forensics...

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About Lisa Phifer
Lisa Phifer, Vice President of Core Competence Inc., has been involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of networking, security, and management products for 25 years. At Core Competence, she has advised companies large and small regarding security needs, product assessment, and the use of emerging technologies and best practices. She teaches about wireless LANs, mobile security, and virtual private networking, and has written extensively for numerous publications, including Business Communications Review, Information Security Magazine, and SearchNetworking. Her monthly Mobile Innovator column is published by SearchMobileComputing.

At the forefront of challenges for today's IT organizations is that of managing the ever growing base of users and user accounts. This integral part of every organization creates the foundation which dictates the resources that users can access spanning from the network to e-mail to the variety of daily business applications. Having a well thought out plan for managing the user account infrastructure helps with user access to network resources as well as efficiencies in IT and supporting teams which translates into saving time and money. The A10 Networks IDsentrie is a network identity management appliance, purpose built to simplify an organizations' identity management infrastructure...

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Corporate and government regulations are now demanding tougher accountability and internal controls. A10 Networks' Smart IDentity Management solution addresses the Sarbanes-Oxley and COBIT compliance requirements with regards to controlling, monitoring, and auditing access and helps strengthen IT control and reporting functions...

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Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a critical technology for properly managing identity resources. With a well implemented IAM system, businesses achieve stronger management control of their identity resources, robust mechanisms to control network access, and enhanced tools to meet tough compliance reporting, logging, and record retention. Learn how to justify ROI for two of the most popular identity management solutions...

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