Every mouse click in a web browser affects your business. To make the web good for business, visibility, control and performance are requirements to manage web communications with today’s expanding Internet content, services and applications. Proxy appliances provide vital technologies to control web applications down to individual users, plus accelerate and prioritize web content delivery to distributed offices and users.
In forward proxy deployments, employee actions on the Internet are visible with proxy logging and reporting, and policy controls are available to advise, coach and enforce Internet acceptable use when changes in behavior are desired. Transparent to these users, content can be scanned for viruses, spyware can be removed, pop-ups that mask phishing attacks or display annoying ads can be removed, plus content can be categorized with on-proxy URL filtering to determine its acceptance for viewing. Integrated caching with advanced web object retrieval and refresh algorithms increase web communication performance as content is often served from cache memory, all the while providing visibility and control - a unique solution that provides an improved user web experience with policy controls.
In reverse proxy deployments, origin servers are isolated from direct Internet access, a large percentage of web application content is cached for improved delivery to users, plus SSL operations can be off-loaded from origin servers and uploaded content can be scanned for viral threats. Web server farms benefit greatly from proxy appliances in reverse proxy mode to scale operations for an ever-growing base of Internet users.
Proxy appliances in hierarchies from central offices to remote branch offices leverage caching, compression and bandwidth management technologies to improve web application delivery, plus keep out the cesspool of Internet threats and content from users on all locations with policy controls. Remote users and partners also benefit from compression of HTTP objects delivered to their browsers and bandwidth management prioritization to enterprise web infrastructures.
Important for the deployment scenarios above is the core proxy caching technologies with ProxySG, plus its unique and patented web object processing. To learn more, please follow the links provided below:
