Roseland, NJ – October 8th 2009 - Expand Networks, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, has been positioned as a Leader, ahead of competitors, in the latest industry research by Canadian analyst house, Info-Tech Research Group. The report cited that Expand earned its position among the market leaders due to a strong product strategy and innovation at an affordable cost.
Entitled ‘The WAN Optimization Vendor landscape: Making sense of the WANscape,’ the report evaluated eight vendors on five key criteria; vendor stability, market presence, product strength, product strategy and value.
Adam Davison, Corporate VP of Sales and Marketing for Expand Networks comments, “We are delighted to be recognized as a market leader in our industry yet again. It stands as testament to our continued commitment to deliver the most comprehensive and flexible product range that is aligned to the business needs of today’s enterprises.”
Assessing Expand Networks’ Accelerators and its Virtual Accelerator (VACC), Info-Tech Research Group stated the ease of installation and cost savings make Expand a smart choice for WAN optimization. Mark Tauschek, lead analyst for Info-Tech Research Group commented, “The appliances are well suited to a variety of purposes such as acceleration of real-time traffic; enhanced virtualization; enhanced backup solutions and HA; server centralization; and WAN optimization for satellite connections.”
About Expand Networks
Expand Networks is the pioneer and leader in the WAN Optimization market and is positioned by Gartner Inc. in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2009[i]. Expand helps organizations simplify their IT infrastructure while delivering remote offices fast, reliable and secure access to networked applications. This results in improved user productivity and cost-effective IT management. Expand offers a multi-service integrated platform that ensures superior performance for any application over any network. From its headquarters in Roseland, NJ and its global locations, Expand Networks serves more than 3,500 enterprise and public sector customers in over 100 countries including: American Express, Bacardi USA, BMW, Continental Airlines, Carr America, Colgate, Elizabeth Arden, Reed Exhibitions, Target and United States Department of Defense with over 40,000 units deployed and over 2,000 MS Terminal Services and Citrix customers. Expand is the largest supplier of WAN Optimization products to US Government and Military agencies (greater than 10,000 units) and also has the most units deployed at a single corporate location, (4,500).
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