<p>Canadian Web Hosting, a full service web hosting and cloud hosting provider, today announced they are integrating Riverbeds Stingray Traffic Manager into their public Canadian Cloud (CA Cloud) and VMware and Xen Private Cloud service offerings. Canadian Web Hostings integrated Stingray Traffic Manager Appliance delivers repeatability in both functionality and management and has been designed for enterprise websites and cloud services that need the ability to load balance their website traffic. Each virtual appliance includes deep optimization features that can improve performance by more than 60%.</p><p>With Riverbed's Stingray Traffic Manager, Canadian Web Hosting has added the industrys only complete software-based Layer 7 application delivery controller (ADC) that works by inspecting and processing application or website traffic, with full payload inspection and streaming. It also utilizes a range of optimization techniques to ensure that customers incoming requests are routed efficiently to the web or application servers. Customers also have the ability to include the option to geographic load balance servers across different data centers or add on the application firewall module for enterprise security.</p><p>Each virtual appliance is pre-configured as a Canadian load balancer and once it is setup, the load balancer inspects and routes requests as it directs them across a customers cloud server or dedicated server application infrastructure. In addition, each load balancer has SSL acceleration available. Every appliance includes an easy to use management interface and variable bandwidth increments to ensure customers only pay for what they need.</p><p>With Riverbed, we found a partner whose product gives Canadian Web Hosting customers maximum flexibility while delivering a Canadian load balancing appliance that works seamlessly with our different cloud hosting frameworks including VMware, OpenStack and CA Cloud. Similar to Canadian Web Hosting, Riverbed is also moving their product line in a way that closely aligns with our future requirements including active engagement with OpenStack, and Juniper SDN integration, said Matt McKinney, Director at Canadian Web Hosting.</p><p><a href="http://www.itbusinessnet.com/article/Canadian-Web-Hosting-Adds-Riverbed-Stingray-to-Public-Canadian-Cloud-2951100">Keep reading...</a></p>