Continued advances in mobile computing, dispersed branch offices and software as a service (SaaS), among other interactive applications, are stressing the security and performance of business WANs. To squeeze the most benefit from these costly connections, companies must carefully choose optimization products not only on a cost and performance basis but also on potential security, manageability, and flexibility benefits. In addition, successful WAN optimization should not require a major overhaul to a company’s existing network nor should it require extensive retraining of IT personnel.
Virtualized IT environments have become imminent in today’s Enterprise as a means for providing standardized management, hardware re-use improved ROI and cost reduction. Today’s virtualized environments via server clustering and resource pools can include applications and server consolidation projects and Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) restructuring.
Joint VMware & Expand Document
The fully-featured “thick-client” PC has traditionally been the ubiquitous workhorse
of desktop computing. However, in many situations, thick-client PCs are not the
ideal solution.
Jointly Prepared by Quest Software and Expand Networks
The advent of server virtualization has empowered organizations with infrastructure
technologies and tools to tame their unwieldy data center environments and truly
achieve more with less. Day by day, legacy servers are gradually being retired in
favor of virtualization technology. More than that, the virtualization wave has
transcended the server, effectively assimilating other IT assets including network
equipment, storage and most recently, the desktop computer (desktop virtualization).
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.
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.
Around the industry these days, you’ll hear the term virtualization bandied about
in a number of different sectors. Today’s typical use of the term is the later day
incarnation of the client-server application technology from the 1990’s where physical
computing resources are consolidated into a centralized and managed network environment.
Originally the term popped up in its earliest incarnation in the systems and desktop
areas. System and network administrators latched onto the concept as a way to better
utilize data center and server resources while at the same time reduce physical
server head count. This lent itself well to a growing trend toward rationalizing
hardware resources that, in many cases, were vastly underutilized.