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A10 Networks Announces New AX Series Virtualization Product Roadmap

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January 21, 2010

A10 Networks Announces New AX Series Virtualization Product Roadmap

By Anshu Shrivastava, TMCnet Contributor


A10 Networks, a provider of “Application Delivery Controllers,” has announced its new AX Series virtualization product roadmap.

 
The new AX Series virtualization options are expected to benefit customers who are offering public and private Cloud Computing models. Company officials said that the customers will benefit from a wide range of responsive solutions to scale up and down, and enhance performance, on demand.
 
Based on A10’s AX Series Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) and Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) architecture, the virtualization options include SoftAX; AX Virtual Chassis; AX-V Appliance; and AX Series Virtualization.
 
“Virtualization is at the center of Cloud Computing and A10 introduces the industry's most flexible virtualization options with our SoftAX, AX-V appliance, AX Virtual Chassis and AX Virtualization,” Lee Chen, founder and CEO for A10 Networks (News - Alert).
 
SoftAX is a software-based AX Series virtual machine (VM) with a full range of Layer 4-7 ADC features. Leveraging commodity hardware, SoftAX helps customers to scale horizontally or vertically by increasing hardware resources or the number of ADCs on demand, said company officials.
 
AX-V Appliance is purpose designed hardware to run SoftADCs. Company officials said that the AX-V appliance leverages the company’s 64-bit AX Series hardware platforms to provide AX appliance hardware reliability with AX virtual machine (VM) flexibility. The AX-V helps customers to respond to changing traffic volume by provisioning and de-provisioning multiple AX VMs or third party virtual machines as required. 
 
Company officials said that AX Virtual Chassis allows for organizations to efficiently scale as they grow with two to eight AX Series devices in a virtual cluster that operates as a unified single device. Plus, a single point of management is available across the AX devices via the CLI, GUI and/or RESTful XML API (aXAPI).
 
Operationally, the AX Virtual Chassis includes dynamic cluster resizing to deliver seamless capacity provisioning and de-provisioning and graceful upgrades and downgrades, said company officials.
 
AX Series Virtualization compliments the existing AX Series ADCs and new AX virtualization products. Moreover, all AX Series models will include expanded internal Virtualized Management capabilities within Application Delivery Partitions (ADPs). 
Company officials said that this expanded functionality will include granular Layer 3 network virtualization and hardware virtualization per partition.
 
“With our Cloud Computing and Virtualization Roadmap, A10 continues its tradition of providing scalable, flexible and disruptive innovations to the Application Delivery Controller market,” said Lee Chen (News - Alert), a representative of the company.
 
SoftAX, the AX-V appliance and AX Virtual Chassis are scheduled to be available in Q2, while AX Virtualization is available now and its enhancements are expected to be available throughout 2010.

Anshu Shrivastava is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anshu’s articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Marisa Torrieri







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