Expand Networks is a pioneer and innovator of WAN Optimization technologies. It’s
solutions enable accelerated delivery and guaranteed performance of business critical
applications and services within virtualized WAN environments and across distributed
enterprise infrastructures.
As the trend toward server based computing continues, Expand’s WAN Optimization
software can be effectively integrated into virtual server environments, such as
VMWare, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft HyperV.
Today Expand is the only vendor that can successfully accelerate server based computing
protocols such as Microsoft Terminal Services (RDP), Citrix XenApp (ICA) and Sun
Ray (ALP).
By creating a ‘Virtual Proximity’ experience Expand solutions deliver a superior
end user environment, closing the user/application ‘proximity gap’ and putting the
user in ‘virtual proximity’ of applications and datacenter services.
Server-based computing solutions, like Citrix, are popular among enterprises, as
they promise to simplify the application infrastructure and reduce costs. Additionally,
these solutions often meet strict government regulations and promote business continuity.
Economics and regulatory compliance are pushing enterprises to look for better ways
to manage their applications and data. Often, one of the best solutions is to centralize
both the applications and the data. Citrix’s Presentation Server has made this consolidation
possible both from a management perspective and from a user performance and economical
perspective.
Citrix Systems through the use of the Citrix Independent Computing Architecture
(ICA) enables the processing of applications to be moved from the client to the
server. Remote ICA clients interact with Citrix Presentation servers that enable
users to see and work with all the application interfaces, but having the applications
execute on a server.
With Terminal Services and Remote Desktop Connection clients, Microsoft has made
application and data store consolidation to a single Windows server a practical
option for the enterprise. In fact, for next to no cost beyond Windows licensing,
enterprises can easily meet regulatory compliance and even application and data
uptime goals with this ready to go server consolidation platform.
The economics of an RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) solution, combined with Microsoft’s
commitment to functionality and stability, as well as a growing community of Remote
Desktop Connection clients for non-Windows terminals, make this solution both attractive
and viable.
More IT departments are consolidating services in the datacenter using server-based
computing and virtualization technologies such as Citrix, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
(VDI) or Terminal Services.
But transmitting applications and data from a centralized server signi!cantly increases
the amount of bandwidth required. Application performance degrades, particularly
when they are graphics intensive, such as interactive presentations or training.
Infrastructure consolidation and virtualization is no longer a trend, but a business
imperative for providing improved ROI, hardware utilization, and management. Companies
are collapsing, leveraging virtualization, and migrating edge servers, software,
and IT resources at record rates. When successful, consolidation leads to solid
returns, but when challenged by wide area network constraints consolidation projects
regularly fall short. No matter what approach to consolidation you choose, Expand
Accelerators deliver the true experience of server and application proximity to
physically distributed enterprises over the WAN.