Storage Expo, Olympia, Booth no. 320 – October 17th 2007 - Expand Networks, a leading provider of application acceleration solutions over the Wide Area Network (WAN) will be demonstrating its new look Compass platform V6 and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) capabilities for the first time at this years Storage Expo.
Under the banners of economising, efficiency and regulatory compliance; IT organisations everywhere are consolidating services. Server consolidation projects continue to rise in popularity and the virtualisation wave has now transcended the server, assimilating other IT assets including network equipment, storage, and most recently, the desktop.
However, as costs go down, remote office performance goes down with it. Transporting application traffic across the WAN, where it previously traversed the LAN or even just the user PC, means dealing with latency and bandwidth congestion, and resulting in poor application performance that seriously affects productivity.
Adam Davison, VP Sales EMEA, at Expand Networks comments, “Desktop virtualisation is a highly interactive application in which the desktop experience must be quickly and reliably transferred to the end-user, with absolutely no tolerance for WAN congestions or any other inefficiency. To this end, organisations must implement WAN infrastructures that are every bit as robust and reliable as the dial tone.”
The integrated WAN Optimisation, Application Acceleration and Wide Area File Services (WAFS) technology within Expand’s Compass Platform enables these projects to succeed. Unlike other WAN Optimisation products, Compass’ transparent Real-time All-IP engine, optimizes at the bit and byte level with the granularity necessary to optimize Remote Desktop Protocol traffic. Removing congestion from the equation, Expand improves remote user productivity while reducing the costs of servicing those users in consolidation and virtualisation projects.
Visit the Expand at stand no. 320 for the first live demonstration on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) in conjunction with alliance partner, IBM, and discover how this technology can reduce desktop costs by at least 60%
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About Expand Networks
Expand Networks is the pioneer and leader in helping 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 COMPASS, 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 (www.expand.com) serves more than 1,450 enterprise and government customers including: American Express, Bacardi USA, BMW, Continental Airlines, Carr America, Colgate, Elizabeth Arden, Reed Exhibitions, Target and United States Department of Defense.
Expand Networks, Accelerator, Expand Compass, ExpandView are trademarks of Expand Networks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Jennifer Manning / David Rowlands
Cohesive Communications
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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).
Expand Networks, Accelerator, Expand Compass, ExpandView are trademarks of Expand Networks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.