Appcito,
a cloud application delivery company, today announced CAFE for Docker to
offer Docker platform support for its flagship cloud-native Cloud
Application Front End (CAFE) service. Appcito CAFE
for Docker unifies all of the application delivery services including
advanced load balancing, application security, continuous deployment,
performance optimization, and application analytics and insights needed
for delivering business-critical Docker containerized applications.
Purpose-built to help agile application operations teams, the CAFE for
Docker software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering is designed for Docker
containers running in AWS, OpenStack, VMware and Azure environments.
"Appcito is driving the next generation of application delivery for
cloud, containers and DevOps," said Paul Burns, president at industry
analyst firm Neovise. "CAFE combines the performance, availability,
security and scale of traditional delivery solutions with the
elasticity, agility, usability and analytics required by today's
applications. CAFE for Docker brings all this to the remarkably popular
Docker ecosystem where I expect it to thrive."
Located strategically close to applications inside cloud data centers,
Appcito CAFE accelerates and simplifies application delivery. In less
than five minutes, DevOps and enterprise IT teams can configure
application delivery services that ensure enterprise applications and
micro services are fast, secure, reliable and elastic. CAFE also
leverages big data analytics and real-time insights for unprecedented
application visibility, as well as the ability to optimally tune
application behavior through dynamic policy management of application
services.
Unified Application Front-End Capabilities Deliver Powerful Benefits,
Easily
Appcito CAFE for Docker is designed to work in any public cloud (e.g.,
AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM SoftLayer), private cloud (e.g.,
based on OpenStack, VMware) and hybrid cloud environment.
It can be activated in minutes and delivers:
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Availability: Advanced elastic load balancing and content
switching, with built-in analytics and feedback capabilities to
maintain high availability of applications
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Performance: End-user performance optimization, especially for
mobile devices
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Security: Web Application Firewall, distributed denial of
service (DDoS) protection and elastic SSL
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Continuous deployment: Automated policy-driven traffic steering
and traffic analytics for smooth code upgrades; request mirroring
between production and Dev/Test
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Insights: Application analytics and insights for optimizing
performance, security, costs and deployment effectiveness; the ability
to continuously improve applications based on insights and learning.
"CAFE for Docker extends the power of unified application delivery to
applications developed on Docker so that developers can fully focus on
writing applications and not infrastructure," said Kamal Anand, CEO of
Appcito. "Besides addressing the key problem of easily load balancing
across multiple Docker containers in a VM, our unified, easy-to-consume
and multi-cloud offering which supports continuous deployment enhances
the key benefits of using Docker for application development - agility,
portability and maintainability."
Pricing and Availability
Appcito CAFE for Docker is available now for AWS, and will be available
for OpenStack in Q2 2015. Appcito offers a 30-day free trial of CAFE.
Subscriptions are available at three levels—Starter, Business and
Enterprise—with rates beginning at $50 per application per month for the
Starter level. Details are available at
http://www.appcito.com/products/pricing.php