Cisco announced the end-of-support of their ACE load balancers as of Fall 2015. Cisco has executed on the end-of-life, end-of-service, and end-of-support plans for their Cisco ACE appliances. Enterprises that currently use Cisco ACE for their load balancing needs have been strongly encouraged to search for an alternative before time runs out and find a solution that will prepare them for the modern enterprise requirements.

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

This post was originally published on Cisco Cloud Blogs, and was co-authored by Gunnar Anderson (Product Manager, Cisco Cloud Services Platform) and Guru Chahal (VP, Product, Avi Networks)