Radware announced its new optimization solution for the virtualized environment, VirtualDirector, as part of a larger initiative - Radware's Business-Smart Data Center strategy - designed to ensure the alignment of key business drivers for the next generation data center.

Reducing costs, increasing productivity and enhancing business agility are considered to be the key business drivers of data centers. Radware has continually introduced solutions specific to the data center, based on ten years of experience as a key player in the application delivery space. The company's approach offers customers a range of innovative capabilities essential to facilitating these business drivers all while being fully integrated into the existing infrastructure. These capabilities are inclusive of: "pay-as-you-grow" procurement models, state-of-the art on demand platforms, real-time behavioral security and the alignment of network behavior based on business events.

Next-generation data centers are being influenced by new IT trends such as consolidation, SOA, convergence, and virtualization, which present new IT complexities. These complexities are introducing additional obstacles to the successful achievement of data center business drivers. Therefore, companies are looking for solutions that offer the best way to resolve these challenges. This is the core of Radware's Business-Smart Data Center strategy - providing its customers with tailor-made application infrastructure solutions for next generation data centers to help them overcome IT complexities and ensure cost effective procurement and full investment protection.

As part of its Business-Smart Data Center strategy, Radware is combining its application delivery expertise with virtualization capabilities, to launch VirtualDirector, a new solution for real-time optimization of data center resources. This launch is the first in a series of announcements that will be made over the next 18 months.

Introducing VirtualDirector
VirtualDirector is an innovative optimization solution for the virtualized data center - providing adaptive and dynamic allocation of resources based on business events, to guarantee SLAs and improving response time of applications. VirtualDirector aligns data center operations with business policies by dynamically allocating resources on demand to automatically serve customer's best needs for SLAs in a virtualized environment, a key area of investment for companies today. In addition, to save costs, VirtualDirector optimizes the use of data center resources to further generate energy and cooling savings.