The Application Delivery Network Infrastructure
Application and user control across the distributed enterprise
Get started by learning how the following technologies can help you build a complete Application Delivery Network infrastructure:
- Application Performance Monitoring
- WAN Optimization
Staying competitive in a global economy all depends on one thing — delivering secure and reliable information to the right people at the right time, wherever they are. How do you ensure your network users can access the applications and information they need, quickly and securely, from any location?
The Blue Coat Application Delivery Network (ADN) infrastructure is designed to optimize and secure the flow of information to users across the extended enterprise. The Application Delivery Network provides you with the visibility to discover, classify and prioritize applications and user access, accelerate the delivery of internal, external and real-time applications and protect users and information from malicious applications and content. This provides you with the flexibility to quickly align network investments with changing business requirements, enhance business productivity and ensure proactive layers of defense.
Application Performance Monitoring
Keep your network and users up to speed
Distributed enterprises are spending more of their IT budgets just to keep business applications up and running. In parallel the proliferation harmful or non-essential apps — from banner ads to P2P applications — continues to escalate and consume bandwidth, so incremental network and bandwidth upgrades don’t always solve performance issues. To clearly see and control what applications are consuming your bandwidth, you need intelligent visibility across your extended network.
Blue Coat Application Performance Monitoring technologies are designed to help you discover, classify and prioritize applications, content and user access in real time, including business-critical content, malware and recreational traffic such as iTunes, YouTube and IM. With granular application visibility, you can:
- Auto-discover and classify 600+ applications including custom developed applications
- Shape and report bandwidth at the application level, according to business requirements
- Measure user response times and proactively set performance thresholds
- Monitor voice and video quality in real time
- Manage, meter or block recreational application traffic to reclaim network bandwidth
- Set and maintain service-level agreements for business critical applications
Discover, classify and prioritize applications, content and user access Blue Coat provides detailed insight into all your applications by leveraging the most advanced Layer 7+ technologies. These technologies include features that help you identify and control even the most evasive applications, including those that port-hop. You can even sub-classify key enterprise applications like SAP, Oracle and Citrix to better focus on business processes.
With this detailed data, you can classify and prioritize traffic to ensure your critical applications are always available and delivered as expected. You can also monitor other factors that impact the user experience, such as network and server delays, so you can get your applications back up to speed quickly.
Contact us to discuss how you can control your WAN costs while delivering the application performance your business needs.