Pulse vADC Updates

Pulse Secure has completed the acquisition of Brocade’s Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) business, and we are delighted to welcome Brocade community members to the Pulse family! 

In this new release, Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager includes an upgraded Virtual Appliance platform, and has been designated as an LTS (Long Term Support) release.

In this new release, Brocade Services Director supports configurations where Services Director is running behind NAT. In addition, this release has been designated as an LTS (Long Term Support) release.

In this new release, Brocade Services Director supports centralized authentication for additional security and user management, including authentication of users against an LDAP, RADIUS or TACACS+ server - for all users accessing services director via REST API, CLI and GUI.

This latest version of Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager includes enhanced flexibility for management, control and more deployment options, including DHCP enabled on admin interfaces, delayed fail-back and PROXY protocol support.

Letsencrypt.org is a free and automated Certificate Authority that makes it easy for organizations to secure websites. It can set up TLS certificates very easily, limited to one domain name (i.e., www.domain.com) and has the advantage that it supports both RSA and ECC certificates.

In this article, we show an example of how to configure Let’s Encrypt to work with Brocade vADC, including:

• Issue new certificates
• Automated renewal of certificates
• Install certificates and tools
• Use both RSA and ECC for performance and maximum compatibility
• Enable automatic OCSP stapling

Starting in November 2016, the vADC feature tiers and bandwidth options will be updated to make it easier for customers to select the platform that suits their business needs.

Performance matters because agility is the key to maintaining a competitive edge.

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This new release of Brocade vTM extends the performance and capability of the new Data Plane Acceleration (DPA) mode, first introduced in Brocade vTM 11.0. This new architecture allows lower-latency and higher-throughput traffic management, and can drive up to 120 Gbps L4 throughput and 1 million L4 connections per second on commodity x86 hardware. This means Brocade vTM can now deliver a combination of high L4 throughput and rich L7 services.

This version of the Brocade Services Director makes it easier to automate the creation of new services, with the ability for auto-registration of externally deployed instances of Brocade vTM, whether in private cloud or AWS deployments.

Never before has the choice of business application impacted an organization’s competitive edge as much as it does today. In fact, enterprises are spending up to a third of their IT budgets on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications alone—along with more spending for other business applications to streamline processes

Instead of this dystopian sprawl, what if we could use a single license that is based on traffic throughput and allows us to allocate as many ADC functions as we like tied back to that throughput allocation, managed by that single license?

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