State Government Agency Upgrades Application Infrastructure with Virtualized Delivery Solution
The Delaware Department of Technology and Information (DTI) has deployed the industry’s only virtualized application delivery solution. The agency needed to rejuvenate its aging application infrastructure, and it wanted to scale application delivery statewide with security and performance. The move involved virtualizing the agency’s old load balancers – not replacing them.
On a Cisco blog about the virtual computing development, Scott Huffman of Delaware’s DTI, explained:
“We were able to take several of the older devices, collapse them down into one ACE [application control engine] module and virtualize it, and we quickly found that we no longer needed separate hardware. We were able to make virtual instances and were even able to take some of the devices from our previous load-balancing solution and virtualize them in ACE. That was definitely a winner for us.”
”Given the state of our current economy, anywhere I’m able to find savings in the IT budget puts our group in a good light. And the fact that we were able to package several of the older devices down into one ACE module was huge.”
Congrats to DTI. I think it’s great that they were able to use both existing and virtual load balancers to save money.
But I think it’s even wiser that they invested in a virtualized app delivery solution instead of replacing old load balancers with new, more powerful ones. They saved money (Isn’t t hat what everybody wants these days?), and they instituted high performance, scalable and secure app delivery.
Regardless of which solution you may choose for your organization, it’s imperative that you keep your sites, networks, servers, apps and databases accessible and running efficiently and safe. That’s why it’s always a good idea to invest a bit more in monitoring systems that keep track of performance 24/7.