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Appcito Releases Cloud Application Front-End (CAFE) for OpenStack-Based Clouds
[May 19, 2015]

Appcito Releases Cloud Application Front-End (CAFE) for OpenStack-Based Clouds


[OpenStack Summit] Booth #T32 - Appcito, a cloud application delivery solution provider, announced that their Cloud Application Front-End (CAFE) solution is now available for OpenStack clouds. Appcito's CAFE is the first purpose-built cloud-native solution for accelerating and securing cloud applications and unifies all the application delivery services-including load balancing, application security, continuous deployment, performance optimization, and application analytics and insights-needed for delivering both traditional and micro services-based applications.

Appcito CAFE for OpenStack empowers application and operations teams to deploy cloud applications that are fast, secure and reliable-with instant infrastructure service access and deep insights into the real-time behavior of applications.

"Appcito CAFE addresses critical problems in OpenStack environments faced by both enterprise cloud IT and cloud service provider IaaS organizations providing services to their application team and developer customers and to the application teams that want to consume these application enhancing services," said Kamal Anand (News - Alert), CEO of Appcito. "Existing approaches are either not cloud-native and agile enough or they demand too much of application teams' scarce resources."

Enterprises and Cloud Providers building OpenStack clouds can increase application agility, performance and security by enabling application teams to self-provision a rich set of integrated application services, including advanced L4 (TCP)-L7 (HTTP) load balancing with deep application visibility and analytics; application security and threat protection, and traffic management and analytics for continuous deployment.

Benefits to Enterprise IT and cloud service provider organizations:

  • Higher Agility: Provide tenant application teams and developers ability to self-provision application delivery services
  • Simpler application change management: Easy to onboard and update each application with its own elastic CAFE service without interfering with other applications
  • Improved visibility and insights: Get rich set of aggregate and per application traffic metrics for improved capacity planning and infrastructure optimization
  • Native Docker support: Support multiple types of applications, including traditional web applications, micro service based applications and those utilizing Docker and container technologies
  • Highly Cost-Effective: Available as a subscription offering with no upfront capital expenses



Appcito CAFE for OpenStack, provides multiple benefits to application teams and developers with its rich set of policy driven and programmable application delivery services that can be provisioned and operated on a per application basis.

  • Advanced Elastic Load Balancing: HTTP (L7) and TCP (L4) load balancing and elastic SSL offload with many more capabilities than legacy vendors can do with their Open Stack LBaaS Plug-ins
  • Visibility and Analytics: Granular and extensive application traffic visibility and analytics
  • Application Security (News - Alert): Elastic Web application firewall service, anomaly detection, Bot protection and DDoS protection
  • Continuous Deployment: automated policy driven traffic management supporting continuous deployment
  • Docker Support: Support for Docker and container based applications
  • Closed-loop application delivery: adjust traffic policies utilizing analytics engine to optimize performance, security, cost

Appcito CAFE leverages OpenStack services such as Nova, Neutron, Cinder and Ceilometer. Appcito's cloud-native elastic load balancer, Policy Execution Proxy (PEP), is built from the ground up on Nova compute instances and is automatically scaled based on programmable policies. Further, Appcito CAFE PEP can easily be provisioned with additional policies to work in Docker for OpenStack environments. Appcito can automate this entire process very easily, and it is the simplest way for the application developers to use Appcito PEP on a per-application basis.


"Unlike traditional vendors which just have come out with LBaaS for OpenStack, Appcito has made other capabilities such as application resiliency and real-time visibility, application security, application performance optimization in OpenStack cloud," said Dr. Pravin Misra, CEO and Co-Founder of Pugmarks, Inc., a cloud-hosting provider. "Appcito's innovative implementation enables us to easily and cost-effectively deliver a rich set of application services to our tenant customers.

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About Appcito

Appcito is headquartered in Santa Clara CA (News - Alert), operates a Research and Development facility in Bangalore, India and has global sales and solution delivery capabilities. Founded in 2013, we are a young and fast-growing company serving organizations of any size and in any industry that are embracing the cost and flexibility advantages from cloud computing. In April Gartner (News - Alert) named Appcito as one of the "Cool Vendors in Enterprise Networking, 2015" for its cloud-native application front-end (CAFE) service. According to the Gartner report, "the proliferation of public cloud computing has dramatically changed enterprise networking requirements. Network designers can use the innovative approaches described in this research to solve network challenges in both the wide area and data center networks." Appcito investors include Atlas Venture, March Capital Partners, and The Fabric.


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