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Application Solutions: Microsoft

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. A10 has AX Series solutions for popular Microsoft enterprise applications.

64-bit AX Series Wins Best of Microsoft TechEd for Networking

According to the judging panel, the 64-bit AX Series won the award due to its "innovative approach to network load-balancing, high availability, and health monitoring. Site-level and global-level geographic redundancy—through its uniquely flexible ACOS (Advanced Core Operating System) architecture—provides for a truly scalable solution that boasts excellent security and 64-bit performance."
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64-bit AX Series Wins Best of Microsoft Tech-Ed for Networking

Deployment Guide

AX Series and Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange provides reliable messaging with built-in protection against spam and viruses. Using Exchange, users throughout an organization can access e-mail, voice mail, calendars, and contacts from a wide variety of devices and from any location.

The AX Series with its Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) has been designed specifically for applications such as Exchange, providing better robustness in failover situations and performing intelligent load sharing of email processing.

Deployment Guide

AX Series and Microsoft OCS

Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS)
OCS is the first Microsoft product to combine enterprise-ready IM (instant messaging), presence, conferencing, and VoIP (Voice over IP) telephony in a fully integrated unified communications solution.

The AX Series provides OCS better robustness in failover situations, load balancing of VoIP users’ sessions for better performance and scalability, processing offload for security, and intelligent load sharing for Web based clients’ access for OCS services.

Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint is a web-based enterprise application for document management and collaboration, utilizing the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. SharePoint is a TCP-based application requiring multiple acknowledgements and secure processing of data, which could slow down server response and degrade responsiveness to users when load increases.

The AX Series is designed for applications such as SharePoint, providing better robustness in failover situations, offloading security processing, and performing intelligent load balancing.

Deployment Guide

AX Series and Microsoft SharePoint Deployment

Customer Use Example

Certified General Accountants of Ontario
Load Balancing Blackboard, Exchange and SharePoint

I took an interest in A10 Networks based on the company's stellar reputation in the online community. When I implemented the AX Series in our network environment, I was pleased by the ease of use and flexibility of the product.

Philip Philippides, Senior Network Administrator for CGA Ontario

Microsoft Windows Server Terminal Services
Microsoft Terminal Services allows controlling of applications running in one location from another location. By using Terminal Services, a user from a remote location can have control of either the whole desktop or certain applications.

The AX Series is designed for applications such as Terminal Services, providing better robustness in failover situations, offloading security processing, and performing intelligent load sharing.

Deployment Guide

AX Series and Microsoft Terminal Services Deployment

Microsoft Outlook Web Access
Multiple A10 customers are leveraging AX Series solutions to ensure Microsoft Outlook Web Access is always available.

We researched the three major load balancing solutions on the market and were delighted to learn we could deploy AX Series for the most superior technology at a fraction of the price.

Tom Lee, IT Supervisor for Infrastructure, Shasta County

Customer Usage Examples

CRC Health Group
SSL Offload for Web transactions

Shasta County
RAM Caching, SSL Offload and Layer 7 Scripting for Microsoft Outlook Web Access and VMware