Radware Extends Application Delivery Soln For Virtual Data Centre

Radware, a provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, has built its vAdapter on the VMware platform. vAdapter is a free-of-charge tool that ensures real-time, automatic synchronisation of the application delivery controller (ADC) configuration with any relevant changes in the virtual environment. The solution is Radware’s newest addition to its application delivery suite, integrating with the company’s AppDirector and VirtualDirector products as well as with the Alteon Application Switch.

With Radware’s vAdapter, companies can prevent configuration errors and reduce operating costs that are commonplace when changes occur in the data centre. IT administrators can use the solution to easily map between a cluster of virtual machines (VMs) that define a service in the virtual environment and its corresponding configuration from the ADC viewpoint. Once a new VM is added or removed from the virtual service cluster, vAdapter automatically configures the ADC accordingly, in real-time.

“vAdapter effectively leverages VMware virtualisation to solve ADC challenges, enabling customers to fully benefit from a simple provisioning process in the virtual data centre,” said Shekar Ayyar, Vice President, infrastructure alliances, VMware.

By installing vAdapter into VMware environments, Radware’s ADC customers considerably reduce operating expenses thanks to reducing constant co-ordination between the network and server team, which eliminates the need for frequent manual configuration updates. In addition, vAdapter lowers the risk involved with rapid application deployment due to its automation capabilities, which prevents the human errors that are typical in manual configuration and script writing processes. All configuration changes – whether automatic or manually confirmed – are also logged, providing a complete audit trail for compliance and change control purposes.