An overview of Riverbed's Stingray Traffic Manager virtual application delivery controller and how it integrates into VMware's vFabric Application Director
2. The News – Riverbed Integrates Cloud-Ready
Stingray Traffic Manager Software with VMware
vFabric Application Director
• Joint solution will enable application blueprints that can
be used to provision and scale multi-tier
applications, faster and smarter, in a hybrid cloud
environment.
• Riverbed and VMware have partnered with Zend to create
the first out-of-the-box application blueprint to validate
the framework for Zend Server Cluster with the Magento
E-Commerce store.
– Stingray Traffic Manager is available today as a service for
VFabric Application Director on the VMware Solution
Exchange
3. Stingray + vFabric Application Director
Application Acceleration & Performance
• Software: Designed from the ground up for virtualization
• L7 ADC – Built for application integration
• Designed for multi-tier high performance applications
• Subscription Licensing for Cloud Operators
Automated Application Provisioning
• Simple and Automated Application Provisioning
• Cloud-Ready Provisioning
• Standardized Use of Application Components and Middleware
5. VMware vFabric Application Director:
A Model Driven Approach to Application Provisioning
Catalog of Deployment Deployments
Application Blueprint
Application Profiles
Services
Dev
Web Server
OS
Application
Server
Test
OS
OS OS
Messaging
In-memory OS
database Prod
What legacy ADCs don’t take into consideration is the impact on the end userOn the other hand, with Stingray its about acceleration making a greater connection between the application and the user, to enhance the end user experienceStingray sits in front of the web and application servers to accept requests on behalf of external users and manage the dialog with the application.The Stingray ADC does all the legacy stuff but takes it a step further and redefines what performance is for ADCs by extending it far beyond the data center and to the end userThis is built on the concept of delivering the performance closest to the end user. With Stingray and we do this by being able to optimize content closest to the source.With Web Content Optimization capabilties, Stingray can optimize web content by reducing the number of objects that need to be collected by the web browser, leading to much faster page views.