Delivering Network Services via the Cloud
July 17, 2015
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.
One of the unfortunate tendencies when it comes to the cloud is trying to replicate the way everything that was done on premise within a public cloud computing environment. Rather than looking to consolidate layers of computing that over the years have emerged inside the data center, IT organizations often just wind up shifting the mess.
For that reason solution providers should be looking for new ways to deliver IT services via the cloud that actually transform how they are delivered. Case in point is Appcito, which this week announced that it is making its application delivery controller (ADC) available on the Microsoft Azure cloud…
Purpose built for cloud computing environments, Siva Mandalam, vice president of products and strategy for Appcito, said the Appcito ADC provides a complete stack of Layer 4 through 7 network and security services that can be deployed on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services or any cloud platform that supports the OpenStack cloud management framework…
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