Stingray Traffic Manager provides high-availability, application traffic management, and load balancing solutions. These solutions provide control, intelligence, security and resilience for all application traffic. Stingray traffic management is intended for organizations hosting valuable business-critical services, such as TCP and UDP-based services like HTTP (web) and media delivery, and XML-based services such as Web Services. Stingray’s unique process architecture ensures it can handle large volumes of network traffic efficiently. Its TrafficCluster scalability allows you to add more front-end traffic managers or back-end servers to your cluster as the need arises. The cluster size is unlimited, and the performance of the traffic manager grows in line with the performance of the hardware. Stingray traffic management products are secure out-of-the-box, and are hardened against intrusion and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. They incorporate the fastest and strongest SSL encryption technologies, and can efficiently decrypt and encrypt large numbers of SSL connections. For critical, high-availability solutions, Stingray offers TrafficCluster redundancy that allows you to have unlimited numbers of active and passive standby front-end servers. If an active server fails, a standby server is automatically brought into action, ensuring there is never a single point of failure in the system.

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• Functional details

  Stingray Traffic Manager is a full-featured, high performance virtual/software ADC providing rich support for: Load Balancing High Availability Fault Tolerance SSL and XML Offload Content Compression HTTP Caching HTTP Multiplexing TCP Offload Monitoring Bandwidth and Rate Shaping Server Isolation Traffic Filtering and Scrubbing Scalable, Distributed Application Firewall TrafficScript Rules Language and Java Extensions Service Level Monitoring Reporting and Alerting Control and Event API

• Business problem

  Application delivery controllers accelerate transactions, maximize availability, manage security policies, and provide a point of control to monitor and manage application traffic. Stingray Traffic Manager is a software-based ADC that provides unprecedented scale and flexibility to deliver applications across the widest range of environments, from physical and virtual data centers to public and hybrid clouds.

• Business opportunity

  Stingray Traffic Manager benefits include: Speed: Accelerate services, increase capacity, and reduce costs by offloading performance-draining tasks such as SSL and compression onto Stingray Traffic Manager’s optimized implementations. Cache commonly requested content and optimize traffic delivery to applications so they’ll run as fast as they would in a perfect benchmark environment. Reliability: Improve application availability by intelligently distributing traffic, avoiding failed or degraded servers, monitoring performance problems, and shaping traffic spikes. Improved security: Stingray Traffic Manager operates as a deny-all gateway, only admitting traffic types it has been configured to admit. This provides full control over how traffic is internally routed. High-performance inspection can interrogate any part of a request or response to apply global filtering or scrubbing policies. The Stingray Application Firewall option also protects against a broad range of web application attacks. Ease of management: Stingray Traffic Manager makes it easy to manage how users interact with applications, and the infrastructure those applications depend on. Use it to shape, prioritize, and route traffic, to drain infrastructure resources prior to maintenance, and to upgrade user sessions across application instances, all while preserving the user experience that business demands.

• Return on investment

  Consolidation and virtualization projects aim to reduce costs and to improve flexibility and responsiveness. But when services depend on sophisticated components that are not deployed within the virtual platform, virtualization’s benefits will never be completely realized. The Stingray virtual ADC can be run natively within the virtual infrastructure for greater choice and flexibility when deploying application resources. It also provides improved performance and reduced latency compared to external ADC devices. Stingray can also leverage public and private compute cloud technologies to extend to hybrid cloud architectures as required.

• Competitive advantage

  Designed from the ground up for virtualization, Stingray represents a better approach for Application Delivery Controllers (ADC's) in private cloud, public cloud, and data center deployments. Stingray Traffic Manager frees applications from the constraints of proprietary, hardware-based ADC's, enabling them to run in any physical, virtual, or cloud environment. This model allows applications to migrate and scale on demand. Stingray Traffic Manager is one of the fastest software-based ADCs on the market with best in class price-performance.

• Industries

  Aerospace & Defense Industry
  Automotive Industry
  Banking Industry
  Computer Services Industry
  Consumer Products Industry
  Education Industry
  Electronics Industry
  Energy & Utilities Industry
  Financial Markets Industry
  Government Central/Federal industry
  Government, State/Provincial/Local Industry
  Healthcare Industry
  Industrial Products Industry
  Insurance Industry
  Life Sciences Industry
  Media & Entertainment Industry
  Professional Services Industry
  Retail Industry
  Telecommunications Industry
  Travel & Transportation Industry
  Wholesale Distribution & Services Industry
  

• Solution areas

  Aerospace & Defense
  Automotive
  Consumer Products
  Education
  Electronics
  Energy and Utilities
  Financial Markets
  Financial Services/Banking
  Government
  Healthcare and Pharmaceutical
  Insurance
  Life Sciences
  Media and Entertainment
  Retail
  Telecommunications
  Travel and Transportation
  Wholesale Distribution
  Cross industry
  

• Customer size

  Very Small Business (Less than 50 employees)
  Small Business (50 to 99 employees)
  Midmarket Business (100 to 499 employees)
  Midmarket Business (500 to 1000 employees)
  Large Business (greater than 1000 employees)
  

• Languages supported

  English
  

• Countries/regions available for distribution

  Africa

  Americas

  Asia Pacific

  Europe

  Middle East

  Other

• Solution collateral

  Name	Date	Categories
  Stingray Traffic Manager Brochure and Datasheet (1,306KB)	Oct 31, 2011	Products Fact Sheet Sales Sales Kits Platform Summary Value Proposition
  IBM PureFlex Riverbed Stingray Application Solution Brief (436KB)	May 4, 2012	News/Marketing

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  SLES11
     IBM System x (xSeries)
     IBM PureFlex System
  RHEL6
     IBM System x (xSeries)
     IBM PureFlex System
  

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