A multi-tier architecture improves the capacity, scalability, and flexibility of your applications. High-capacity, multi-tenant hardware deals with network firewalling, SSL decryption, access control, and network optimization at the edge of the network, where it has the greatest impact.
Specific tasks such as web application firewalling, advanced application monitoring, load balancing, and content routing can be fulfilled by a software-only platform close to a single or small number of applications tied to an organizational unit.
Once in place, developers can focus on deploying critical applications. Service templates save time, ensure consistent deployments, and reduce operational risk of manual deployments by codifying standard configuration elements for a particular service. And when the team wants to spin up a server or try something out, end-to-end integrationv with the private cloud platform allows them to skip the templates and deploy an instance with a few clicks on a GUI.