What is Application Delivery?

Application Delivery refers to all of the software used to increase the usability, security, and performance of web-based applications and their related protocols.

Application delivery can refer to individual software or hardware components like load-balancing, Web Application Firewalls, Global Server Load Balancers and Accelerators, or form part of an Application Delivery Controller which provides all of the functionality and features of the individual components under a single control-plane. The Application Delivery Controller can be deployed as a software suite to existing infrastructure and can even be deployed directly into cloud environments.