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Data Center Application Services

Introduction

Enhance Application Performance and Availability

The Cisco ACE Application Control Engine family, a comprehensive portfolio of next generation load balancing and application delivery products, belongs to the Cisco family of Data Center 3.0 solutions. These products help your organization accomplish these primary IT objectives for application delivery:

  • Increase availability, scalability, and security of essential business applications, including those from Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft
  • Facilitate data center consolidation
  • Enhance IT efficiency
  • Improve user experiences and productivity

Boost Application Performance

Cisco ACE products improve application performance while distributing their services across multiple virtual devices, reducing data center power consumption and provisioning cycles.

Benefits of the Cisco ACE Application Control Engine product family include:

  • Potential cost reductions: Faster provisioning and scaling of applications can help lower operational costs.
  • Faster application and server performance: Patented acceleration technologies improve server performance by offloading SSL, TCP, and XML processing.
  • Improved overall security: Features such as deep packet inspection, network and protocol security, and a powerful XML firewall protect applications and servers from threats and attacks.
  • Investment protection: Simple software license upgrades let you easily add capacity.

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Featured Content

Case Study: Performance and Response Time

Learn how an email ISP achieved a 40 percent improvement in response time.

Cisco Application Control Engine Overview

See Flash demo of how Cisco ACE helps make your applications successful by ensuring application performance, scalability, acceleration and security.
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Industry Awards

Learn how the Cisco ACE Application Control Engine earned SearchNetworking.com's Gold Award for Product Leadership in application-delivery controllers.

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Podcast: Benefits of Virtualized Application Switching

The Cisco ACE Application Control Engine addresses data center challenges including power and cooling.

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Third Party Analyses

See what industry-leading analyst and testing firms are saying about the Cisco ACE Application Control Engine.

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