Introducing ALB-X v4.2

NEW: Web Application Firewall

The edgeNEXUS Application Firewall incorporates industry leading, hardened firewall technology to provide Layer 7 application protection for your web-based applications. Satisfy PCI-DSS and OWASP application firewall requirements.

• Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
• SQL Injection
• Session Hijacking
• Data Loss Prevention

NEW: Docker and Containerisation

We like Docker, and the concept of Containerisation as a whole. edgeNEXUS Load Balancers can now act as a Docker Host, allowing you to run a wealth of Docker Apps direct from your edgeNEXUS deployment.

What can you do with this?

Leveraging the power of Containerisation in conjunction with Application Delivery Controller technology enables organisations to build a robust yet flexible Application Delivery Platform (ADP) to serve the diverse and demanding needs of its users. How about configuring multi-tenancy for edgeNEXUS Load Balancers, or deploying a containerised Web Application Firewall.

NEW: Load Balancing Policy

The latest version of the edgeNEXUS load balancer now includes a Fastest Server load balancing policy based on dynamic response time of the traffic.

Users can also apply weighting to a server that also uses the Fastest server load balancing policy.

NEW: Cloud Services Manager

The edgeNEXUS Cloud Services Manager is a secure interface between the edgeNEXUS load balancer and any cloud based service. This is the first edgeNEXUS ALB-X release with the ability to ‘dial home’ to run a number of services including:

• Check and download new cloud based software updates
• Check to see if an ALB-X is still in support
• Check to see if an ALB-X has a valid licence
• Automatically show purchased Apps on an ALB-X
• Download new security rules

Additional Features

If all of the above wasn’t enough, here are some more new features for the edgeNEXUS load balancer v4-2-0

• IPv6 Load Balancing
  The edgeNEXUS load balancer can now act as an IPv6 to IPv4 gateway
• Server Name Indication
  Thanks to new SNI capabilities, users can load balance applications that need SNI such as ADFS v3.0 and present multiple certificates on the same service, helping to preserve dwindling IPv4 address space.
• UDP Proxy
  The edgeNEXUS Reverse Proxy connectivity method now features a full native UDP Proxy
• Historical Graphing
  The edgeNEXUS load balancer offers historical graphing to enable users to report on a number of variables including response time, requests per second, specific servers. These graphs can be overlaid for simple comparison between services.