BUSINESS
SURVEILLANCE
performance and user behaviour
enables the organisation to have visibility
into which assets are doing well and
which may be due for optimisation. When
a problem is discovered, contextual
information helps the operations team
troubleshoot faster and more efficiently
so the customer experience can
continue with little or no interruption and
anomaly detection can be used to drive
proactive and even predictive responses.
2. Integrated security helps secure
business apps at scale without adding
to the security team’s workload.
Security that is integrated into the load
balancing solution provides the best
defence. Bolt-on security products tend
to be complex and hard to configure,
particularly with regard to application
security. Configuration and management
of security features and the ability to
adjust policies at a granular level needs
be straightforward and easy.
3. Centralised management gives
greater flexibility to respond quickly
to changing business environments.
A centralised management system
Today, infrastructure
is everywhere and
the pace of change
for operations and
infrastructure will
only increase in
the future.
that operates with an advanced load
balancing solution will prevent conflicting
policies. It will also ensure visibility of
the application stack in both public and
private clouds, as well as enable multiple
regions to accommodate high availability,
regulatory requirements, or other needs.
4. Support for containers simplifies
and enables app portability across
the infrastructure. Today, application
infrastructure is becoming more and
more complex; therefore, adoption
of containers is becoming a growing
method to address this complexity.
Containers can orchestrate computing,
networking and storage infrastructure
on behalf of user workloads. This lets
the organisation deploy cloud-native
applications anywhere and control them
with confidence. Any advanced load
balancing technology that supports
containers not only has to be able to
automatically scale to accommodate
changes in application traffic, but also
must automatically update itself when
changes are made to the infrastructure.
Operations teams will not have to
configure policies or otherwise actively
manage the load after the advanced load
balancing solution is configured. This
allows operations teams to function more
efficiently and organisations will get
more value from them.
How is A10 helping
customers to overcome
these kinds of challenges?
With the rise in globally dispersed
enterprises and new work-from-home
requirements that are increasing traffic,
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