A10
Networks Announces aCloud Services Architecture, Delivering Dynamic
L4-7 Network Services into Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Centers
New
products, licensing models and integrations with SDN and cloud
platforms from Amazon, Cisco, IBM, and Microsoft improve business
agility and lower TCO for IaaS cloud operators
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DELHI / BANGALORE, India - January 29, 2014
A10 Networks,
a technology leader in application networking, today announced the
aCloud Services Architecture designed to help
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)data center operators deliver a rich
set of application networking and security services to their customers,
improving business agility and lowering total cost of ownership. The
aCloud Services Architecture includes a range of new products and
integrations with 3rd-party software-defined networking (SDN) and cloud
platforms that enable dynamic L4-7 security and application services in
multi-tenant cloud data centers.
To
meet the needs of public and private IaaS data center providers, the
aCloud Services Architecture includes new virtual and hybrid virtual
appliance form factors and new licensing options that enable on-demand
application delivery and security subscription services, similar to the
way other IaaS services are delivered. It also provides feature
integration with industry-leading cloud orchestration and SDN platforms,
including Amazon's Web Services (AWS), Cisco Systems ACI, IBM SDN VE,
OpenStack, and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V Network Virtualization
and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. These integrations
enable A10's physical and virtual appliances to dynamically and
automatically provision L4-7 network services per tenant network flow.
Legacy
data center network architectures are typically static, inflexible and
manually provisioned, placing them out of synch with emerging cloud data
center business models that are characterized by automatically
provisioned services, increased business agility, and significantly
reduced cost of operations. The aCloud Services Architecture allows
operators to deliver rich L4-7 network services within these new data
center architectures by delivering key features, including:
- High-performance appliances
that perform a variety of resource-intensive functions, including
encapsulation/decapsulation, SSL (secure sockets layer) offload and DDoS
(distributed denial of service) mitigation
- Virtualized and hybrid appliances that provide distributed service scale-out down to the host and/or tenant
- Pay-as-you-go licensing that allows cloud data center operators to offer a variety of subscription-based L4-7 network services to their customers
- SDN and network virtualization platform integrations
with leading data center solution providers, includingCisco APIC, IBM
SDN-VE, and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V Network Virtualization,
with planned integration with VMware NSX
- Cloud orchestration integrations with leading orchestration platforms, including OpenStack and Microsoft Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager.
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A10 Networks
"The
aCloud Services Architecture, working in concert with leading data
center orchestration and SDN solutions, creates a comprehensive,
high-performance, flexible and agile solution for automated service
provisioning," said Lee Chen, Founder and CEO of A10 Networks. "The
addition of rich L4-7 services to public and private clouds is critical
to helping our cloud service provider customers grow revenue and
respond quickly and cost-effectively to market requirements."
A10 Customers
Deutsche Telekom
"Deutsche
Telekom AG cooperated with A10 on the implementation of a scalable,
carrier-grade IPv4 Softwire solution for our TeraStream pilot," said Axel Clauberg, Vice President Aggregation, Transport, IP and Fixed Access at Deutsche Telekom AG. "The
A10 vThunder software was the first Virtualized Network Function with
high bandwidth and low latency to be integrated in our Infrastructure
Cloud in our TeraStream pilot network in Croatia, serving customers with
up to gigabit access speeds. TeraStream is Deutsche Telekom's
drastically simplified IP architecture, running just IPv6 in the core.
The scalable delivery of IPv4 is critical. A10's willingness to work
with us to implement the Lightweight 4 over 6 solutions and their
execution and integration in our Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
was impressive."
Micron 21
"A10's
pay-as-you-grow cloud platform was simple and easy to set up and
deploy. With an all-inclusive pricing model, we are able to achieve
quick return on investment and greater profits by increasing our product
portfolio," said James Braunegg, Micron 21 Director. "Our
clients, both locally within Australia and internationally, have the
ability to add services on the fly, which can scale up and down to meet
any requirement. The platform operates within a highly redundant
environment ensuring customers receive on-demand world-class services,
including WAF, GSLB and DDoS Protection while maintaining little
financial impact."
A10 Partners
Cisco
"Cisco
and A10 Networks have partnered to integrate A10's aCloud Services
Architecture with the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) to
deliver integrated and automatically provisioned layer 4-7 network
services within the ACI fabric," said Soni Jiandani, Cisco SVP of Marketing. "A10's
new integration with the Cisco ACI Infrastructure enables our joint
data center customers to implement a single network policy via the Cisco
APIC controller to ensure network security, QoS, and other network
services from a central, automated orchestration system."
Microsoft
"With
Windows Server 2012, Microsoft introduced Hyper-V Network
Virtualization, and the aCloud Services architecture builds on this
capability and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager to enable
datacenter administrators to rapidly and centrally provision, manage,
and monitor A10 Networks virtual and physical appliances and user
policies," said Vijay Tewari, Principal PM Manager, Windows Server and System Center, Microsoft. "We
are happy to work with A10 to help operators lower total cost of
ownership through automation, centralized management and monitoring, and
improve service velocity."
Products, Licensing and Availability-
- High-performance appliances
- Thunder Series with VXLAN and NVGRE support -- perimeter functions per tenant, providing encapsulation/decapsulation for overlay network virtualization, available now
- Virtualized and hybrid appliances
- vThunder, Thunder 3030S HVA and 3530S HVA
(hybrid virtual appliance), providing distributed service scale out per
tenant including ADC and Carrier Grade Networking (CGN), available now
- vThunder AWS is also available through leading cloud service provider Amazon Web Services, available Q1
- vThunder Pay-as-You-Go licensing options
- Rental BillingModel (RBM) and Utility BillingModel (UBM), providing flexible IaaS service pricing models, available now
- SDN and network virtualization platform integrations
- Cisco APIC, available Q2
- IBM SDN-VE LBaaS Plug-in, available Q2
- Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V Network Virtualization, available Q1
- Cloud orchestration integration
- A10 Networks aGalaxy, available now
- Microsoft Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager LBaaS Plug-in, available now
- OpenStack LBaas Plug-in, available now
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About A10 Networks
A10
Networks was founded in Q4 2004 with a mission to provide innovative
networking and security solutions. A10 Networks makes high-performance
products that help organizations accelerate, optimize and secure their
applications. A10 Networks is headquartered in Silicon Valley with
offices in the United States, United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands,
Germany, Spain, Brazil, Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong,
Singapore and Malaysia. For more information, visit http://www.a10networks.com
A10
Networks, A10 Thunder, vThunder, ACOS, aCloud, aFleX, aXAPI, aVCS,
Virtual Chassis, SoftAX, and aFlow are trademarks or registered
trademarks of A10 Networks, Inc. in the United States and other
countries. Know more
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