Appcito, a provider of cloud application delivery solutions, today
announced the latest release of the Appcito Application Delivery System
(ADS), formerly known as Appcito Cloud Application Front-End (CAFÉ). The
new capabilities, available immediately, allow enterprise IT and network
infrastructure teams to act as providers and enable application owners
and DevOps teams to rollout new applications in minutes with a
self-service model, while still being 100% compliant to existing
security policies and governance models. This will help accelerate cloud
adoption by simplifying operations and reducing risk.
This release of Appcito ADS introduces new service adapters for F5
Big-IP LTM and HAProxy devices. These service adapters offer granular
per-application visibility and analytics, ensuring enterprise
infrastructure teams can leverage their existing ADC investments without
operational disruption.
“Application architectures are changing. Enterprises are looking
to empower application teams to be more agile but with better governance
and deeper visibility into applications within their data centers and
cloud deployments,” said Cliff Grosser, research director, HIS
Technology. “Appcito Application Delivery System offers sophisticated
capabilities that can greatly benefit enterprises looking to scale their
cloud adoption while lowering both risk and cost. Appcito’s model is
especially relevant to organizations deploying hybrid clouds and
microservices architectures.”
Accelerating Cloud Adoption for the Enterprise
Appcito ADS has gained adoption with cloud-native, web scale application
delivery solutions on public clouds servicing nearly a billion requests
monthly. Continuing its rapid pace of innovation, it now offers the
ability to speed up enterprise private and hybrid cloud deployments with
web scale “as-a-service” offerings bringing operational simplicity,
lower TCO and deep application visibility, benefiting both application
and infrastructure teams. New capabilities include:
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Provider-Tenant Portal – allows enterprise
infrastructure teams to define policies and arm application teams with
a self-service portal to spin-up new services – traffic management,
application security and analytics – in a matter of minutes as opposed
to traditional processes that typically take weeks. Application teams
can also manage their policies and embrace “DevOps-style” deployments.
This operational simplicity speeds up innovation and delivers agility.
The ability to bring together control, governance and security with
speedy application deployment reduces “shadow IT” which can be a
concern for enterprises.
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Service Adapters for F5 Big-IP LTM and HAProxy Deployments
– service adapters can be non-disruptively inserted into existing data
center or cloud deployments complementing existing ADC and open source
tools to provide per-application health, visibility and analytics. For
F5 Big-IP deployments Appcito ADS service adapters provide
application-centric monitoring with real-time monitoring and threat
detection leveraging Big-IP high speed logging (HSL). For HAProxy
based deployments Appcito provides ongoing and meaningful monitoring
with a dedicated system that stores, visualizes and co-relates HAProxy
metrics. It provides alerting based on HAProxy metrics and an
application-specific dashboard providing real-time and per-application
views of health and performance of applications served by HAProxy.
“We are seeing ever-increasing adoption across cloud-native,
microservice-based applications, as well as with enterprises looking to
accelerate their cloud adoption by de-risking application migration,”
said Kamal Anand, CEO, Appcito. “The new capabilities create an
excellent opportunity for enterprise IT and infrastructure teams to
empower agile application teams and facilitate DevOps-friendly
deployments. It is time to embrace and empower shadow IT, not fear it.”
Product Availability
Appcito Application Delivery System (ADS) is generally available and
offers convenient Basic and Pro packages for cloud native applications
and an enterprise version for large-scale enterprise deployments.