The FortiDirector Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) Service is a cloud-based approach to solving the complexities of expanding applications across multiple data centers for disaster recovery, improved performance and reduced delivery costs.

Unlike traditional hardware-based GSLB appliances, FortiDirector provides an always-on, always-available, hosted GSLB solution that doesn’t require a device at every data center location or all your application delivery appliances be from the same manufacturer. Its DNS and HTTP resolution can route traffic to servers through any manufacturer’s application delivery devices, from single servers to even hosted servers from companies such as Amazon or Rackspace.

Through your fortidirector.com account you can set up rules based on network elements, geography, time of day or custom HTTP conditions to meet the unique needs of your business. With advanced health checking mechanisms, FortiDirector can accommodate almost any load balancing need or failover scenario to provide 100% uptime for your mission-critical applications.

FortiDirector is an ideal solution for medium and large enterprises, ASPs and SaaS providers that have distributed service ecosystems and want an easy to deploy, reliable high-performance GSLB solution.

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Features & Benefits

• Easy-to-use, flexible configuration and agile control over business rules that update globally within minutes.
• Highly reliable, self-monitoring solution that integrates with your existing infrastructure.
• Load balance any protocol through DNS-based GSLB for maximum flexibility.
• Advanced SNMP-based health checking for routing to best performing resources based on server and network health.
• Route traffic based on closest servers to reduce latency.
• Define rules based on lowest cost carriers to reduce TCO.
• Powerful real-time reporting that gives you up-to-the minute status of your application performance.
• Scale as you need it without the hassle of managing new hardware or software.
• Pay-as-you-go cloud service model with bulk-based pricing discounts.
• Complete API support to work with your custom applications.
• Layer 7 load balancing for HTTP with rich URL and query string processing that provides a seamless end-user experience in complex application infrastructure environments.

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