Csc Offers Load Balancing as a Service to Customers

At CSC we operate, maintain, and develop infrastructure for customers. That means dedicated infrastructure, but also shared infrastructure, we use as infrastructure as a service. We had around ninety-plus devices, Alteons, all of them. Many of them outdated so we were looking at a new solution and we came up with the 10k, installed it, and started migrating all of those ninety boxes into virtual vADC's. We replaced the Alteon 10k in between our four older deployment models and from there we were migrating the Alteons into models one-to-one into vADC's. The benefits were before with the ninety, more than ninety devices, we were not really in control of the devices. Many of them where outdated in both hardware as well as firmware and with the 10,000 we have more control. We have the overview we missed for many years. We use Vision to have that overview and operate the devices from there. We were able to get rid of all those old devices, saving the cost that it takes to run those devices, both power and man hours. I think that the deciding factor for the 10,000 was that we already where operating with the Alteons, we were happy with the high stability the platform has, and we were able to do this one-to-one migration without spending a lot of time migrating into a new platform. When we started using the Alteon 10,000 we were able to to deliver the load balancing as a service, instead of the customer buying a physical hardware box, so now we are delivering it as a service, where the customer pays for the capacity units and what else is in relation to the vADC's. We're also able to deliver SSL offload in the vADC instead of a parallel box to the existing Alteon devices the customer may have.