As of January 2014, Cisco has stopped production of ACE load balancers and exited the application delivery market. Cisco is no longer supporting software on Cisco ACE and soon will no longer support the hardware. It is recommended that all enterprises running Cisco ACE make the transition as soon as possible.

IT executives and network infrastructure leaders are looking at ways to automate and deliver applications faster, reduce costs, and provide elastic application services. According to Gartner, “Application-centric personnel are driving a return to lightweight, disaggregated load balancers, creating challenges and opportunities for I&O leaders.” Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is now reaching mainstream enterprises with the Cisco Cloud Services Platform (Cisco CSP) 2100. Cisco has partnered with Avi Networks to provide a turn-key solution for the rapid deployment of application services such as load balancing, analytics, and autoscaling on its elastic NFV platform. The joint solution ensures that administrators can efficiently roll out elastic, high-performance, load balancing and application monitoring capabilities. Join Cisco and Avi Networks to learn how enterprises now have an opportunity to: Replace their expensive appliance-based load balancer with an elastic, software load balancing solution Achieve TCO savings of over 50% Deliver a centrally managed, distributed load balancing fabric Gain full visibility to all virtual services and pools with complete application analytics Cisco ACE replacement before its upcoming end of support date