EXPAND VIRTUAL ACCELERATOR
Today’s virtualized IT environments present the largest and most complex challenges
to WAN optimization and application acceleration today. While delivering required
optimization, appliance based solutions require additional hardware, management,
and support. Expand’s industry leading WAN Acceleration technology is now delivered
on a fully virtualized offering enabling you to join in with Datacenter and Branch
Office virtual infrastructure plans.
Expand Networks’ WAN Acceleration technology, recognized as the industry’s best
at accelerating and ensuring wide-area network traffic performance, demonstrates
a true understanding of the future IT environment by integrating their appliance
software into the virtualized architectures of the future. Expand has risen to meet
these new initiatives with future-focused technology that both integrates with and
enables these environments.
THE VIRTUAL ACCELERATOR AND HIGH AVAILABILITY
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.
Virtual Accelerator in the Datacenter
By leveraging the existing virtual IT infrastructure in the Datacenter, WAN
Optimization can be deployed as a “virtual appliance”
- Leverages existing deployed hardware & server platforms
- Uses existing shared storage - SAN and/or NAS
- Uses existing management & configuration tools
- Easy to deploy using standard virtualization tools
- Rapid ROI, lower TCO
Virtual Accelerator at the Branch Office
Repurpose the Branch Office Server
- After a branch office server consolidation project servers can be repurposed!
- Cost effective –Eeliminate the appliance price
- Increase ROI - Leverage free platforms (VMware Server and ESXi) in the branch office
- Reduced TCO
- Green IT
Enable Complete High Availability at the Data Center with no additional licensing
costs
- Utilize VMtools to enable complete “warm cache” HA
- Built in support for high availability and maintenance (VMotion)
- Most comprehensive HA for WAN optimization in the market
Integration into “exotic” and challenging environments
- “On the move” platforms – airplanes (FAA requirements), maritime vehicles…
- Remote location – Mines, oil rigs, unattended locations
- Hardened servers and appliances for military and civilian use
Virtual Accelerator
- Deploys on your hardware platform of choice
- Multiple Virtual Accelerators can live on one physical server
- Multiple virtuals with multiple physicals achieves unlimited scalability
Virtual Accelerator & High Availability
- Should the Physical server fail, DRS used to immediately “Spin-Up” New Virtual Accelerator
on available hardware resource
- No additional cost for redundant Virtual Accelerator
HA With Immediate Warm Cache
- HA failover keeps warm cache
- No additional cost for redundant Virtual Accelerator
- Move Virtual Accelerator from one server to another without losing the warm cache
Unlimited Datacenter Scaling
- Unlimited Bandwidth support for the Datacenter
- Simply run multiple instances of the Virtual Accelerator on one or multiple Physical
servers
Ease of Management
- Easy & Immediate movement of the Virtual Accelerators from one Server to Another
using VMotion
- Add additional Virtual Accelerators immediately using VMotion
- Cache remains warm leveraging shared storage & VMtools