Pulse Secure today announced that its virtual Application Delivery Controller (ADC) products are now available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace for AWS GovCloud (US). Pulse Secure’s virtual ADC solution provides the ideal platform for U.S. government agencies and customers to build out agile, high-performance cloud applications.
This announcement builds on the virtual ADC platform’s pre-acquisition position as a leader in its category on the AWS Marketplace, demonstrating Pulse Secure’s commitment to supporting the next generation of high-growth applications on the AWS cloud.
Pulse Secure virtual ADC extends the capabilities of Amazon’s own application delivery tools, offering scalable L7 capabilities that can be used to augment user experience and security in a rapid development lifecycle. Pulse Secure offers the widest support available in the market for integrating with lifecycle tools on AWS.
Pulse Secure virtual ADC enables:
- An ideal solution for application development on AWS, making it easy to build and test new applications and scale to production
- AWS Quick Start rapid application prototyping
- Cloud formation templates
- Support for common DevOps tools, such as Ansible, Puppet and Chef
- Rapid release cycles and innovative applications
- Roll forward or back for continuous updates and rapid release cycles
- Application auto-scaling to ramp up AWS server resources to meet demand surges and scale down when no longer needed to help manage costs
- Support for A/B testing and experimentation to optimize user experience
- Enhanced application functionality and ease of integration, becoming a key control point for policy enforcement and service management, while extending AWS applications to achieve a faster and richer user experience
- Layered on high-level services, such as web application firewall (WAF) application security, global load balancing, security assertion markup language (SAML) authentication and built-in web content optimization
- Real-time control of user services and transactions using TrafficScript
Application Delivery Controllers play a central role in load balancing workloads and enabling access to applications. Given its position in a network deployment, ADC technology is also an ideal location for monitoring application activities, which is a core capability of the new Pulse Secure virtual ADC.
Pulse Secure’s virtual ADC is one of the most advanced virtual application delivery controllers in the market today. The solution provides fast, reliable and scalable application delivery across virtual and cloud platforms. Automation and centralized management capabilities help to accelerate and simplify service deployment while application-level security protects the organization.
For more information visit: www.pulsesecure.net/vadc
Senate Tries To Kill ZTE Deal That Trump Served Up
Posted in Commentary with tags ZTE on June 12, 2018 by itnerdRemember that deal that President Trump came up with to give Chinese telecom ZTE a slap on the wrist? It didn’t go over so well with US Senators, who are now trying to kill the deal again in a novel way:
Senate leaders agreed Monday to include language in the annual defense spending bill that would reverse the Trump administration’s decision to save Chinese telecommunications company ZTE after it was caught violating the terms of a 2017 penalty agreement by making illegal sales to Iran and North Korea. The language will be part of an amendment in the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, a $716 billion defense policy bill, H.R. 5515 (115).
If the Senate amendment becomes law, it would automatically reinstate the seven-year prohibition until Trump has certified to Congress that ZTE has met certain conditions. It also would ban all U.S. government agencies from purchasing or leasing telecommunications equipment and/or services from ZTE, a second Chinese telecommunications firm, Huawei, or any subsidiaries or affiliates of those two companies. The amendment language “prohibits the federal government from doing business with ZTE or Huawei or other Chinese telecom companies” and puts the company back on the sanctions list and “holds ZTE accountable for violating their previous commitment,” Cotton said.
That’s crafty. I’d be watching Twitter to see how the Twitter president reacts to this. Because I assume he’s going to have a meltdown when he finds out about this maneuver, and the fact that he can’t really stop it.
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