Ssl Acceleration Appliances: Engineering A Modern Data Center

By Author: Martin Lobo
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In the era of networks and electronic data, businesses environments have taken a global form from the earlier localized ones. Further, the mode of business process has also changed from the brick and wall store to a more technologically enhanced ecommerce system. The technological innovation, cloud-computing technology and the wide use of the Internet have all paved for the changes in business environment.

However, the changes also bring in a number of challenges. With large volumes of data and applications being interchanged between cloud-based servers or through the data centers, the secure transfer of data is of major concern. The information transferred through the corporate networks or through the Internet is critical to the organization’s business and hence needs to be transferred in a secure way. Under such circumstances, traffic management solutions like the SSL acceleration with server load balancing and application acceleration is required to create ideal environment for ecommerce and other applications that require a high-degree of secure connectivity.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a CPU-intensive ...
... TCP protocol used for encrypting data transferred over the Internet, commonly used in an e-commerce situation to provide secure transfer of credit card information and other sensitive data. SSL acceleration is possible with the use of specialized appliances such as SSL acceleration appliances that facilitate faster execution of the SSL offloading of the CPU-intensive part of the SSL transaction. SSL acceleration is also known as ‘web acceleration’, ‘e-commerce acceleration’ or ‘crypto acceleration’. With all web browsers supporting this, it is used for improvement of application performance in TCP multiplexing, high-speed HTTP processing, adaptive compression and dynamic caching.

Available in application delivery controllers, these high performance SSL accelerators are used to secure data in transit, offload intensive processes and improve application performance. With a 1024 and 2048 bit encryption for security authority certificates, the SSL acceleration appliance manages local traffic, global server load balancing, clustering for nearly 100% application uptime and data center scalability. Further, with its IPv6 support, integration of virtualization and application-specific certifications and templates this paves way for rapid deployment of optimized configurations and facilitates data center modernization.

The Application delivery controllers with world-class technology and SSL VPN Appliances, energy efficient components are all engineered for a modern day data centers. These service providers will leverage on this state-of-art data centers to provide the client organizations faster application delivery and virtualization through a virtual private networking tunnel.

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