BROCADE VS RELIANOID ALTERNATIVE

Brocade

Brocade specializes in storage networking products. The company is known for its Fibre Channel storage networking products and technology.

RELIANOID

RELIANOID® is an Application Delivery Controller and Load Balancer that ensures high performance and security of IT services on a massive scale.

Brocade’s Strengths

Brocade’s attributes, licensing alternatives, and strategic plans are in perfect harmony with enterprises seeking to implement ADC in their virtual or cloud projects.

They provide a complimentary developer edition with no licensing fees, offering a comprehensive feature set that can be easily obtained with a single click.

Their pricing model is transparent and follows a consumption-based billing approach.

RELIANOID’s Strengths

Expert and skilled R&D professionals accomplished in Zevenet and Zen Load Balancer, departing from an Open Source technology with no vendor lock-in and broad platforms integration (hardware, virtual, bare metal and cloud), bringing security, performance and readiness.

Cost-effective solutions with no constraints on products and services, tailored to the needs of midsize companies as well as large enterprises.

Protocol Versatility adapting and managing diverse network environments and protocols (UDP, TCP, HTTP/S, SCTP, SIP, T/FTP).

L7 and L4 Performance managing over 140K concurrent users at Layer 7, while at Layer 4, it efficiently handles more than 10 million concurrent users, all with just 2 dedicated cores.

High Availability witha automatic real time stateful cluster replication.

Security and WAF improved as it incorporates an Intrusion Prevention and Detection System (IPDS) and also an integrated Web Application Firewall (WAF). It actively safeguards web applications against specific threats while providing real-time IP blacklisting, Denial of Service (DoS) protection, and support for black and whitelisting.

User-friendly interface designed for both DevOps and SRE professionals, ensuring ease of use in managing and configuring systems.

Automation thanks to its fully programmable and robust REST+JSON API.

Brocade’s Weaknesses

Does not offer a turnkey hardware appliance, in which hardware/software support is sourced.

Customers have raised concerns over the discontinuation of Brocade´s legacy ADC product line, the ADX.

RELIANOID’s Weaknesses

Emerging brand, challenging the ADC and Load Balancing market, operating as an open-source company.

Still in the process of building a significant presence. It must expand its partnership network more extensively.