PDF's
Expand Networks WAN, Virtual Desktop, Application Delivery Acceleration and Optimization
WAN Optimization Leader’s Virtualization Accelerator Wins Interop Performance Optimization Category
Performance Optimization: Expand Networks - Virtual Accelerator
Category Judges:
Mike Fratto – InformationWeek
Larry Chaffin - Pluto Networks
Expands Virtual Accelerator brings application acceleration into virtualized environments in a meaningful way by leveraging the strengths of virtualization—resource sharing and application mobility. The Virtual Accelerator, starting at $995, is a full feature soft appliance that runs on VMWare’s line of hypervisors from workstation through ESX Server 3 and includes support for layer 4-7 acceleration, advanced compression, and wide area file services.
WAN optimization advanced compression caches data to disk which is used to compress the traffic on the wire. If the virtual appliance is configured to use the SAN available to the hypervisor, Virtual Accelerators can be added or moved to another hypervisor connected to the same SAN and start using the existing disk cache immediately. That means in the event of a computer hardware failure, a new virtual appliance can be running with a warm cache in the time it takes to create a new instance—a few minutes. The Virtual Accelerator also benefits from VMware’s high availability to be restarted on a separate server in the event of hardware failure and distributed resource scheduler to be managed without IT intervention.
It costs per remote office rise linearly as more offices are added. One way organizations are reducing costs is through consolidating applications back to a data center and reducing computers in the office. Using virtualization to consolidate critical resources onto a single platform makes sense and fitting in Expands Virtual Accelerator as one more service reduces another remote system. Expands Virtual Accelerator solves practical IT issues and leverages the flexibility and versatility of virtualization and that is why it won Best of Interop’s Performance Optimization category. – Mike Fratto
Interop, Las Vegas, May 20th 2009, - Expand Networks, www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, has beaten industry rivals to win the prestigious title of Best of Interop Las Vegas, with its Virtual Accelerator. ....
........“We are delighted to be awarded this tremendous accolade. Our virtualization technology coupled with our innovative economics makes this product particularly relevant to all sizes of enterprises today. WAN Optimization has become a critical enabler in today’s consolidation drive and the innovation we have demonstrated in product development this year has helped our customers improve remote user productivity, even in the most complicated environments.”
Each year, Best of Interop winners prove to be the key players in the continuing evolution of business technology.The judges selected the products they believe will have the greatest potential impact and advance business technology efficiencies....
.......As a truly virtualized offering, Expand’s Virtual Accelerators utilize existing hardware, shared storage, management, back up policies and configuration tools, as well as ensuring existing Service Level Agreements and support services are maintained, thus simplifying datacenter management and reducing TCO. Davison explained,“The Virtual Accelerator’s ability to live in, and work out of a virtual environment, optimizing all TCP and UDP applications over the WAN, ensures it delivers a superior end user experience and critically, reduces TCO and helps drive greater ROI.”
Expand Networks Offers Fast ROI
Expand Networks Accelerators increase existing bandwidth and will lower your network latency. If you are Virtualizing your desktops or moving to MPLS and seeking to optimize your investmet you've found the solution. Before you increase your OPEX by ordering additional bandwidth let us show you a more cost effective way to increase your current throughput and reduce latency while controlling your monthly expenses. Contact OASYS and we can run an ROI Calculator to show your payback period.
Expand Networks Value Proposition
By using Expand Accelerators you are able to reduce the time it takes to transfer large files. Many have tried to increase their bandwidth in an attempt to reduce latency but failed. Luckily they found Expand Networks technology and solved the latency problem. They have changed hours into minutes and have been able to cut down on the bandwidth requirements. Many of our customers find that overal network performance is enhanced as router and switch buffers get relieved. ROI's are typically under 18 months.
Saves Money and It's Green Because...
You're able to maximize your current hardware and use virtualization to collapse applications to less centralized server farms. Virtualization in many cases can cost you more to implement by requiring more operation expense in increased Telco charges and the IT Services can suffer. Expand Networks appliances and software keeps your applications performing well all the way to the desktop. Less servers, less power, less heat. Saves you money.
