Looking for a faster and efficient way to reach your end-users? Worried that the increased bandwidth usage is affecting the speed and performance of application delivery?
CONTENT DELIVERY CLOUD A Better Alternative to Your Content Delivery Network (CDN) Download Whitepaper
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Riverbed Stingray Content Delivery Cloud Timely delivery of applications is critical to the success of most companies. But many applications now operate over vast geographical distances, causing a dramatic impact on performance and speed. To address this issue, customers have traditionally deployed solutions such as content delivery networks (CDN). With the growth of virtualized applications and cloud computing, however, there is an alternative content delivery solution called the content delivery cloud (CDC). CDC can improve performance while providing greater flexibility and control to content owners and customers.
Content delivery network Content delivery networks consist of edge servers and points-of-presence (POP). The value of this architecture lies in the redundancy of resources that enable the network to absorb huge spikes in traffic while delivering content rapidly. CDNs offer network resources that are shared among the CDN operator’s customers and structured services based on variables including: • • • •
Bandwidth consumption Number of domains supported Type of content to be delivered Established SLAs
CDN challenges While CDNs are an established tool for content delivery, they do have some drawbacks. The shared nature of their infrastructures, limited number of CDN providers, and the high level of control that is relegated to the CDN providers create issues that CDN customers must overcome. • • • • •
Lack of flexibility Complex and costly scalability Security and differences in data ownership Limited and complicated manageability Overall value derived from costly services and upsell
Riverbed Stingray Content Delivery Cloud – A better content delivery option The Riverbed® Stingray content delivery cloud (CDC) is a fast and efficient content delivery platform for end-users. However, unlike a CDN which leverages a global network of servers to deliver content for all CDN customers, the Stingray CDC utilizes public or private infrastructure to provide the points of presence that offer a private CDN-like experience for the delivery of a customer’s content. A CDC is able to support these services without the need for large initial capital investment or a complex infrastructure.
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Benefits of the Riverbed Stingray Content Delivery Cloud: • Flexible content delivery solution that offers customers a rapidly deployed, highly customizable infrastructure with a global presence. • Scale delivery infrastructure on demand utilizing the tools and interfaces that are available to content delivery cloud customers. • Distributed content with centralized control is delivered by the private, custom-built infrastructure that is centrally administered by the customer organization. • Simplified management of content distribution is achieved due to the reduced number of tools and touch points required support the network. • Secure content delivery that provides compliance based security policy protection at the edge via the Stingray Application Firewall.
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