INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
A10 Networks delivers major
automation, analytics and multi-
cloud management advancements
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Enterprises and service providers can efficiently deploy,
manage, control and optimise secure application
services across hybrid clouds.
control and automate the deployment of
application delivery services to maximise
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:
Raj Jalan, CTO at A10 Networks
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10 Networks, a provider of intelligent
and automated cybersecurity
solutions, has announced availability
of major advancements to its Thunder
Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) with
Harmony Controller support for centralised,
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.
Organisations are striving to become
more agile as the role of IT and software
becomes paramount. Fast roll-out, control
and optimisation 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,
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• Centralised 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
centralised 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 centralised 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.”
Among the benefits customers achieve
from using Thunder ADC with Harmony
Controller are:
• Actionable intelligence: Complete
visibility into user experience, end-to-end
latency, contextualised traffic profiles,
anomalies, malicious intrusions and
server health and utilisation 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% with a 3-6x ROI
• Increased DevOps agility: Centralised
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. n
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