application delivery

Application delivery is known as the centralised delivery of business-critical applications via a network or over the Internet.

The application delivery market is being driven by organisations buying application systems with the emphasis on linking their IT operations and infrastructure with business services. With increasing concerns regarding security, compliance, and IT costs, organisations are looking to centralise remote office servers and consolidate data centre infrastructure. This shift in IT strategy has had an impact on both the data centre and the branch office. Applications and storage that previously ran locally face a new performance, scalability and security challenges when running across a distributed WAN. Centralised backup and disaster recovery  has become increasingly complex.

Today a new category of “Application Delivery” products has emerged to enable this IT transformation. They address the following challenges associated with distributed applications:

• Performance
• Management
• Application Resiliency and Availability
• Scalability