The Application Delivery Network is helpful to meet greater application mobility and security in a distributed enterprise, besides helping in classifying and prioritizing applications, content and user access in real time. It is expected that worldwide the ADN market will be worth $5.82 billion by 2018. The factors that are driving the growth of ADN market are data center consolidation and virtualization and increasing adoption of cloud and enterprise mobility. The major pull for ADN is witnessed from small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), which are shifting from manual load balancing techniques to advanced ADN technology.
The job of a load balancer is to distribute traffic across multiple servers. For example, you can place a load balancer in front of multiple web servers or email servers. This will enable high availability, better performance and scalability.
Key Takeaways: Organizations are embracing BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) which is offering its employees the freedom to work from anywhere and any device. This is one of the major drivers of this market, as any increase in network virtualization in a BYOD environment will enhance scope for ADN market.
Key Vendors: F5, Radware, Citrix, Cisco and others including A10 Networks, Akamai, Array Networks, Symantec Brocade, Palo Alto, Riverbed, RSA (Dell Technologies)
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