A10 Networks Unveils New AX Series Virtualization Products

📅 January 19, 2010 - New AX Series products includes SoftAX, SoftADC and AX-V, industry's first appliance optimized for SoftADCs.

A10 Networks, a provider of Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs), today announced its new AX Series virtualization product roadmap. The company claims that as Cloud Computing increases, virtualization is a key enabler, delivering elasticity, economies of scale and the ability to scale with commodity hardware or hardware appliances. It states that with the new AX Series virtualization options, customers offering public and private Cloud Computing models benefit from a wide range of efficient, responsive and cost-effective solutions to scale up and down, and enhance performance, on demand.

The company avers that based on its AX Series Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) and Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) architecture, the following scale-as-you-grow virtualization options will provide enterprises and service providers wide flexibility:

• SoftAX: A software-based AX Series virtual machine (VM) with a full range of Layer 4-7 ADC features
• AX-V Appliance: Industry's first purpose designed hardware to run SoftADCs while guaranteeing performance and meeting compliance standards
• AX Series Virtualization: Complimenting the existing AX Series ADCs and new AX virtualization products, all AX Series models will include expanded internal Virtualized Management capabilities within Application Delivery Partitions (ADPs)

"With our Cloud Computing and Virtualization Roadmap, A10 continues its tradition of providing scalable, flexible and disruptive innovations to the Application Delivery Controller market," said Lee Chen, Founder and CEO for A10 Networks. "Virtualization is at the center of Cloud Computing and A10 introduces the industry's most flexible virtualization options with our SoftAX, AX-V appliance, AX Virtual Chassis and AX Virtualization."

"A10 is clearly listening to its customers by offering the widest choice of virtualization solutions of any Application Delivery Controller vendor," said Burzin Engineer, VP of Technology, BizRate/Shopzilla. "I've been impressed with the solutions I've seen so far, and am pleased to see the full Layer 4-7 suite of functionality."