A10 Networks announced availability of major advancements to its
Thunder Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) with Harmony Controller
support for centralized, multi-cloud management, rich per-app analytics
and DevOps tool integration. Numerous new enhancements also enable
integration with Kubernetes, enhanced Ansible Playbooks and simplified
ADC policy configuration with expanded Application Centric Template
(ACT) support.
Organizations
are striving to become more agile as the role of IT and software
becomes paramount. Fast roll-out, control and optimization of
applications drive revenue, competitive advantage and customer
satisfaction. Apps must be secured and quickly delivered regardless of
where they reside.
A10's
ADCs with their tight coupling to the Harmony Controller lead the
industry in enabling administrators to intelligently manage, control and
automate the deployment of application delivery services to maximize
agility, provide actionable insights and ensure app availability and
security while simplifying operations with lower TCO. Augmentations to
A10's Thunder ADC with Harmony Controller intelligent automation
capabilities include:
- Centralized
multi-cloud management, including on-premise, Amazon Web Services and
Azure to distribute policies to all application services.
- Expanded
L4-7 per-application analytics across clouds with hundreds of metrics
on an aggregate or per-request basis in real-time.
- Integration
with DevOps tools including Ansible Playbooks and a Thunder ADC based
A10 Ingress Controller for Kubernetes environments.
- Support
for a secure portal enabling a provider-tenant model. Line of business
and application owners can manage secure application service policies
and view application responsiveness with centralized control from IT.
- Application
Centric Templates (ACTs) for many common software solutions, such as
new versions for Windows Integrated Authentication and SSL Offload along
with existing ACTs for Microsoft Exchange, Skype for Business,
SharePoint and more.
- Integration with private cloud orchestration tools including VMware's vRealize Orchestrator and Cisco UCS Director.
- ‘Nutanix Ready' certifications for A10 vThunder and Harmony Controller on Nutanix's Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI).
"Prior
generation ADCs lacked visibility and support for centralized
management that bridge on-premise and cloud infrastructures with their
diverse APIs and toolsets," said Raj Jalan, CTO at A10. "Current
processes are manual, inefficient and error prone and result in an
inability to proactively and automatically modify infrastructure based
on dynamic traffic profiles. A10 is addressing these challenges to
improve agility for businesses of all types."
"At
Delta Dental, we like to work smarter, not harder. Combining Thunder
ADCs with their support for automation, centralized control and deep
analytics with A10 Harmony Controller helps us do that," stated Kevin
Klott, Network and Hosting Services Manager. He further noted: "By
choosing A10, we are future proofing our plans for the shift to
cloud-native applications."
Among the benefits customers achieve from using Thunder ADC with Harmony Controller:
- Actionable Intelligence - Complete
visibility into user experience, end-to-end latency, contextualized
traffic profiles, anomalies, malicious intrusions and server health and
utilization levels enable proactive infrastructure modifications.
- Multi-cloud Support -
Support the transition of apps to hybrid cloud environments with the
same services, management, and visibility as found on-premise.
- Automated Workflows - Increase efficiencies, expedite application deployments and lower troubleshooting times by up to 80 percent with a 3-6x ROI.
- Increased DevOps Agility - Centralized software defined functions that enable collaboration between networking and development teams.
- Ease of Deployment -
Tight integration with Harmony Controller provides a single
pane-of-glass to simplify the provisioning, control, management, and
elastic scaling.