Array's new version of operating system for its APV

style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"> href="http://dqchannels.ciol.com/content/reselleralert/110071302.asp">Array
Networks announced a new version of its operating system for its
AppVelocity (APV) portfolio of Application Delivery Controllers
(ADC). Leveraging the SpeedCore architecture, the new ArrayOS
8.1 fully leverages 64-bit processing and multi-core technology to
deliver dramatic improvements in performance, packet handling and
memory capacity. The new version also delivers multi-fold
improvements in server offload and acceleration capabilities using
new and improved functionality related to server load balancing,
compression, system level monitoring, process/module level
resilience, application flow monitoring and field troubleshooting.
Together, these enhance overall performance and scalability under a
high traffic load.

At the center of the ArrayOS is
SpeedCore, which uses a lock-free multi-core technology to enhance
performance by up to ten times and deliver significant capacity gains
for HTTP, TCP and SSL offloading by supporting multiple 10Gbps
network interface cards for application processing. The rise of Web
2.0 traffic, multimedia services, data center virtualization and
hosted cloud-centric applications has made it increasingly important
for the ADC solutions to be capable of handling complex application
delivery efficiently. With the SpeedCore architecture, the ArrayOS
8.1 APV products have the ability to support diverse network and
application-level routing using software-based intelligence to
deliver high performance for processor-intensive applications.

“The combination of high-performance
and high-intelligence takes the efficiency of the Array APV products
to the next level,” said href="http://www.ciol.com/SMB/SMB/News-Reports/Array-Networks-launches-iPad-application/137871/0/">Michael
Zhao, President and CEO, Array
Networks. “For more than a decade Array has been working with
Global 500 customers in understanding the fundamental
cause-and-effect relationships within complex application delivery
architectures. We have identified datacenter 'bottlenecks', and
redesigned key components to make them more efficient and better able
to handle the data center evolution. With this breakthrough
architecture, Array effectively leverages multi-core technology to
deliver huge performance gains directly to customers at low TCO,”
added Zhao.

In addition to architectural
advancements, Array delivers time-tested, mature features that have
been used by customers worldwide. The new architecture has gone
through extensive field deployment over the last 18 months and is
purpose-built to handle the demands of enterprise data centers, as
well as the evolving public and private cloud environments. For
example, new content-aware engines allow ArrayOS 8.1 based products
to achieve up to 400 percent improvement in small packet processing
for applications such as VOIP, instant messaging/chat,
tele-conferencing, stock trading, etc. SpeedCore allows Array APV
products to support multiple applications simultaneously without
negatively impacting user experience or application uptime. This
enables network managers to deploy more applications and services,
thereby reducing overall deployment costs.