Riverbed has introduced the Stingray Services Controller (SSC), a platform that allows customers to deliver application delivery controller as a service (ADCaaS).
The service will automate the deployment of application delivery services for network architecture including software-defined networking (SDN).
With the SSC, an "ADC per application" deployment model is possible, which directly addresses evolving application and data centre architectures, workflows and operations models, the company says. The ADCaaS enabling technology gives cloud providers and enterprises deploying in the private cloud the ability to provision, scale and deploy their ADC as needed, Riverbed says.
"Riverbed's SSC and the Joyent high-performance cloud will enable our customers to provision, licence and scale ADC services in a very easy, agile and cost-effective way," said Jason Hoffman, founder and CTO of Joyent.
According to the company, the SSC addresses the challenges IT architects and operators face when trying to deploy traditional ADC architectures with emerging software-defined architectures and within their existing or virtualised data.
With the introduction of the SSC, enterprises and cloud providers will be able to automatically provision, deploy, licence, metre and manage their ADC inventory in an as-a-service model, Riverbed adds.
The company reports that the SSC will also provide a new consumption model for customers deploying ADC services, called the Stingray Traffic Manager (STM) "micro" instance. These STM "micro" instances can range from small ADC instances to large Stingray instances on commodity servers. With the STM "micro" instance, ADC services can be elastically scaled on demand and right-sized to suit each application in the data centre, offering high density, full isolation and multi-tenancy scaling.
"With SSC, customers will have a hyper-elastic ADC platform that can adapt to workload changes. With the emergence of the virtualised data centre, legacy ADCs can be a bottleneck and were starting to be excluded from virtualisation strategies and cloud deployment," notes Jeff Pancottine, senior VP and GM of the Riverbed Stingray application delivery business unit.
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