Cisco Application Networking to Microsoft SharePoint

Cisco Application Networking for Microsoft SharePoint Solutions combines the Cisco ACE and WAAS products with the Microsoft SharePoint architecture to provide optimized availability, performance, security, and cost of ownership.

Solution:

Microsoft SharePoint Application Availability:

* Cross Data center load balancing: Efficiently routes the end user and web request to the best available data center
* Server Load Balancing: Efficiently routes the request to the best available server
* Application health monitoring: Continuously monitors application and database availability
* Network platform health monitoring: Helps ensure continuity of business operations through mirroring of end-user transaction states across pairs of network devices

Microsoft SharePoint Application Performance:

* Cisco ACE and WAAS application optimization services for high performance:

WAN optimization: Provides intelligent caching, compression, and protocol optimization. This brings in faster download, faster site navigation and reduce bandwidth utilization

* Server offloading: Specialized hardware that offers greater processing efficiency for application optimization services thus frees up application server processing up-to 70%

Microsoft SharePoint Application Security

Cisco ACE application optimization services for optimized data security:

* SSL termination: Efficiently encrypts and decrypts SSL-enabled traffic, which facilitates the use of intrusion detection and prevention solutions before traffic reaches the servers, reduces server CPU usage, and centralizes certificate management

* End-user access control: Provides access control lists (ACLs) to protect client-to-server traffic from worms and intruders that attack vulnerable open server ports not used by the application

* XML firewall: Examines SOA Web services requests for compliance to schemas and protects against identity, message-format, and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks

Microsoft SharePoint Ownership Cost

Cisco Application Networking for Microsoft SharePoint Solutions reduces application capital and operational costs through:

* Server cost reduction: Offloading of application optimization services

* Networking cost reduction: Virtualization of application optimization services supplies such services for multiple Microsoft SharePoint solutions as well as other enterprise applications

* Operating cost reduction: Application optimization services reduce operating costs

Microsoft SharePoint with Cisco ACE:

Microsoft server 2003 provides software based server load balancing and SSL Termination.  Cisco ACE can offer high performance to these application optimization services along with the application health monitoring, end user access control and TCP connection management.