Sujata C, elaborates on the company’s latest offering – SpeedCore technology
Increasing popularity has led to a surge in number of application users. How does SpeedCore multi core technology handle this?
Today’s application delivery solutions must be rooted in an architecture that can deliver both performance and scalability and the ability to operate in any environment and respond quickly to an evolving technology landscape.
SpeedCore delivers substantial value aligned with the growth in virtual computing. Integration with management tools such as VMware vCenter allows SpeedCore to provide real-time usage intelligence that enables agile control of virtual infrastructures to optimize service delivery, utilization and cost. With the rapid adoption of always-on connectivity, cloud computing and virtualization, enterprises need to provide massive scale, performance, availability and
extensibility for their IT and network infrastructure.
How does SpeedCore meet the complex demands of the current networking environment?
Can you detail its load balancing capacity?
SpeedCore reduces response times for a broad range of legacy, new and evolving applications,
including rich Internet technologies. The benefits are more throughput and a larger system cache. Array has extensively explored ways to best utilize the power of multicore processors with Layer 4-7 application traffic flows. This is a very common challenge today and SpeedCore automatically tunes itself to applications to achieve the best possible performance. Inter-module communication uses explicit message passing (instead of shared memory to improve reliability) except where it interferes with the zero copy property. For ultra-high performance and low application latency, third-party application and protocol specific hardware can be integrated to upgrade performance in very short timeframes.
As new applications and Web technologies emerge, SpeedCore’s framework can be easily extended to accommodate them. This preserves the adaptability, stability and safety of SpeedCore for easy addition of new features, faster development of new software and faster turn-around time when fixing field problems. The extensible architecture offers major performance improvements and easy integration with third-party applications and hardware. The system management module has detailed built-in usage counters to facilitate faster debugging. SpeedCore’s enhanced logging and statistics collection helps resolve application and content processing errors for timely field resolution of problems.
SpeedCore was built to allow processing units to spin up as necessary to handle variable loads. This allows SpeedCore to dynamically alter the number of instances that need to be deployed. Any mismatch between the rate of outgoing packets and the rate of incoming packets is relayed to upstream and downstream entities (clients or servers) to minimize packet loss and buffering.
What are the advantages of CPU-based multi-processing and how does it benefit?
With optimized software running on cutting edge off-the-shelf processors, vendors can introduce
new features and enhancements without requiring customers to rip and replace existing products or take products and services offline to perform a hardware upgrade. This is particularly important for cloud service providers and emerging services where application delivery requirements are rapidly evolving. Vendors with a CPU-centric approach have the ability to rapidly meet these needs in a timely manner with features and customizations that can be deployed with a simple non-disruptive software upgrade.
To get the best of all worlds–cutting edge performance and scalability with agility and affordability – it is essential to run optimized software (such as Array SpeedCore) on purpose built appliances that leverage the latest in multi-processing technology. This is because standard software, operating systems and processors share resources with tasks unrelated to networking and pay a performance penalty because underlying components are not optimized for the demands of application delivery networking.
What kind of programs have you got for partners with respect to SpeedCore?
Rapid deployment and the extensible nature of SpeedCore APIs were the deciding factors for standardizing on Array application delivery solutions. Array’s vision of SpeedCore as a platform for partner development is strategically aligned with our competitive advantages, as well as our need to automate datacenter management for agile, real-time service provisioning.
We have hardware provisioning training to partners for SpeedCore technology and skill set training to identify customers and application to partners, resellers and system integrators to power the next generation of application, rich content and data service delivery. The SpeedCore platform represents a major milestone in the evolution of application delivery technology that will enable our enterprise and service provider customers to meet these challenges while remaining profitable and without compromising the user experience.
We look forward to working with our customers, technology partners, resellers and system integrators to power the next generation and because of the extensible nature of SpeedCore APIs were the deciding factors for standardizing on Array application delivery solutions. Array’s vision of SpeedCore as a platform for partner development is strategically with our competitive advantages, as well as our need to automate data center management for agile, real-time service provisioning.
How is the pricing strategy – is it market sensitive?
Yes, our pricing is completely partner sensitive i.e. we will ensure that our partner margins are protected at all times. During the last month dollar fluctuations we have helped our partners with innovative schemes to address the same and maintain their profitability.
What kind of technical support do the customers get?
Array has a fully fledged TAC which is one of the few OEM’s to do so in India. Customers can avail of telephone, email and online support through our TAC in India. Further we have onsite support programs – direct and through our partners.