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The result was delete. Wily D 08:57, 29 August 2014 (UTC) reply

Software-defined application delivery

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WP:VERIF bpage ( talk) 01:45, 11 August 2014 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 13:30, 11 August 2014 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 13:30, 11 August 2014 (UTC) reply

• Delete - It is deceptive to call weblinks to product review websites "References". There are no citations to any real refernces anywhere in the article. It is an article with no references. A Google search showed a facebook page, a couple of blogs and the company website. bpage ( talk) 01:05, 12 August 2014 (UTC) reply

'Comment' without discussing the general notability of the subject, or these particular references, references to product reviews in responsibly edited sources are the ideal references for the article on a product, or indeed any subject covered by such reviews. DGG ( talk ) 17:40, 12 August 2014 (UTC) reply

Delete the entry. it's obviously entered by a company that wishes to make money off of this strategy. There are no references and it lacks a balanced view. I just received spam from a company trying to sell me their services by enabling my website with this strategy. They promise 15%-20% increase in my conversions and link to this entry on wikipedia as validation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.215.137.122 ( talk) 00:20, 13 August 2014 (UTC) reply

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica ¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:14, 19 August 2014 (UTC) reply

SDAD or Software-defined application delivery as it is widely called is a breakthrough technology and even though currently there are only a handful of players like Citrix, Instart Logic, Riverbed etc. this is the future of the content and application delivery technology and the world will rapidly start moving towards it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.51.251.146 ( talk) 13:18, 19 August 2014 (UTC) reply

• Delete - This term is used in the context of one company that appears to be attempting to promote either the concept or phrase. Wikipedia should not be a platform for press releases. If the phrase catches on and becomes a broadly used, generic term then it can be re-visited.-- Rpclod ( talk) 17:45, 19 August 2014 (UTC) reply

• Comment Agree with the response given by Brandon Connor, it won't be too long before we see all the companies adopting this technology as part their solution to offer better and faster services to their customers. Software defined application delivery is still evolving as a service & sooner many companies will adopt this service.

Also, in reference to Rpclod's comments - software-defined application delivery is a generic term used by many companies. I feel this article caters to learning more about "software defined application delivery" and should be retained on Wikipedia as it serves the learning purpose.

• Comment This is a fairly interesting computer science based software approach to application delivery technology - seems to build on some of the concepts of software-defined networking and apply them to CDNs. While I'm not qualified to discuss the merits of the technology, it does seem to have been around for a couple of years. A quick Google search reveals content by several companies on the topic:

As far back at Nov 2012, by a company named BrightTalk, in a webcast video https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/499/58279 "integrate your ADC platform with automated provisioning and capacity management, using new tools for software-defined application delivery"

Citrix also refers to this concept in a whitepaper about "software defined application services" Advanced application delivery over software defined networks: http://www.citrix.com/content/dam/citrix/en_us/documents/partner-documents/advanced-application-delivery-over-software-defined-networks.pdf

The F5 company website also has references to this: https://f5.com/about-us/news/press-releases/f5-enhances-synthesis-architecture-to-extend-reach-of-software-defined-application-services

IBM as well: http://www.a10networks.com/resources/files/A10-CS-Advanced_application_delivery_over_software_defined_networks.pdf

So has Riverbed: http://www.riverbed.com/products/application-delivery-performance/for-software-defined-data-center-sdd.html

The primary flaw with this article is not enough reference links to other companies - those can easily be added. As this is an emerging technology area, we should let the page be up and update it as more references to the context surface. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.188.127.179 ( talk) 05:30, 21 August 2014 (UTC) reply

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.