Application delivery controllers (ADCs) are now essential for business-critical applications, managing fast-changing transaction loads, and enhancing performance, resilience and security. However, many online applications change frequently to reflect customer requirements, and the increasing speed of change in application deployment means that traditional ADC architectures can hold back the pace of change.

So, enterprises rolling out private clouds still face several technology and operations limitations today as a result of their static legacy application delivery infrastructures. These are a bottleneck in virtualised data centres and cloud environments, hampering IT’s ability to orchestrate and manage their application delivery services.

Moving to an on-demand platform for application delivery “ADC-as-a-service” can transform an Enterprise or Cloud Operator by providing the tools and technology to deploy and manage a dynamic and elastic application delivery infrastructure.

From a management standpoint, ADC-as-a-service delivers better ROI by aligning the application delivery costs with the a more usage-based …