-- A new Cisco Data Center Assurance Program for Applications (DCAP for
Applications) that tests and validates industry-leading enterprise software
applications over Cisco application delivery network infrastructure. For
commentary on Cisco's application delivery network strategy from executives
at Microsoft, Oracle and SAP:
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2008/ekits/exec_commentary.pdf
-- New ANS products and services, including the Cisco Application Control
Engine (ACE) 4710 Appliance, Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
Mobile, Cisco ACE XML Gateway Release 5.2, and Cisco Advanced Services for
application delivery.
"The intelligent network continues to grow as the platform for application
delivery," said George Kurian, vice president and general manager for
Cisco's Application Delivery Business Unit. "Cisco's application delivery
networks will drive significant productivity gains, and transform the role
of the network in enabling applications to deliver bottom-line returns for
customers."
Cisco ACE: Virtualized Application Switching and Acceleration for Data
Centers
The Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance is a powerful application delivery and
optimization solution for today's data centers. The appliance helps ensure
business continuity by enhancing application availability, improves end
user productivity by accelerating applications, and reduces operating costs
by helping to minimize data center power and cooling needs, contributing to
"green" data center initiatives. Like the ACE Module, the ACE 4710
Appliance uses a unique, virtualized architecture to isolate application
and server farms, as well as speed application deployments.
The Cisco ACE 4710 addresses smaller- and medium-scale enterprise
deployments, supporting up to 2 gigabits per second (Gbps) of application
traffic and 50 virtual devices in a single appliance. Featuring
Cisco-patented FlashForward acceleration technology, the product helps
eliminate the network delays associated with embedded Web objects such as
JavaScript files -- resulting in up to 500 percent faster Web application
performance.
In addition to introducing the ACE 4710 Appliance, Cisco has upgraded the
software for its ACE XML Gateway, which processes Extensible Markup
Language (XML) transactions on the network for service-oriented
architectures and applications, including Web 2.0 services.
Cisco WAAS Mobile: Speeding Application Performance to Mobile Users
Cisco WAAS Mobile extends the capabilities of the award-winning Cisco WAAS
product family by providing application acceleration of any Transmission
Control Protocol (TCP)-based application operating in a wide-area network
(WAN) environment to mobile and remote workers. Consisting of client
desktop and server-based software, the solution can be easily installed
without reconfiguring existing desktop clients, file or application
servers, or network infrastructure, and preserves existing network security
policies.
Dallas, Texas-based Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS), a premier
provider of global IT and business process outsourcing, has deployed both
Cisco WAAS and ACE internally and also deploys Cisco ANS products at client
sites, such as Scott's Miracle-Gro.
"Cisco has a broad range of application delivery technology that provides
greater productivity to end users and accelerates business opportunities
for our company, as well as our clients," said Tom Gibson, ACS director of
business development. "Our ability to rapidly and reliably deliver key
applications from our data centers to a wide range of end users, whether
mobile or branch office, gives ACS and our clients a critical business
advantage. Because Cisco tightly integrates application delivery
capabilities into the overall network, we can more easily deploy, scale and
manage application delivery as we and our clients continue to grow."
To complete its application delivery networking offering, Cisco also is
launching a new Application Profiling Service, a custom design and support
service that helps customers profile their applications' performance,
security and availability status, and recommends application delivery
technologies to achieve resulting IT and business goals.
Price and Availability
The Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance is currently shipping with a promotional
starting price of US $15,995. Cisco WAAS Mobile is currently shipping with
a price of US $5,000 for the server software and $8,750 for a
25-concurrent-user license; larger concurrent user licenses are also
available. The Cisco Cisco ACE XML Gateway Release 5.2 is currently
shipping and available at no charge for Cisco SmartNet customers. The
Cisco Application Profiling Service is also available now.
For more information about Cisco ANS Products and Services:
Cisco Application Networking Services:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/contnetw/index.html
Cisco Data Center Assurance Program for Applications:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns751/networking_solutions_sub_program_ho
me.html
Cisco Services for Application Networking Services:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6894/serv_group_home.html
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