INTERSPORT international chose to deploy Expand Networks’ Virtual Accelerator, for its ability to live within and accelerate out of virtualized environments. Now in place, the Virtual Accelerators are successfully protecting the performance of SAP, video conferencing and critical applications for business users across key international sites.
“Having made an investment into creating a wholly virtualized environment at INTERSPORT, it was critical that any new software must fully support VMWare in order to match the virtual network. Expand was the only product to provide this.”
Jicky Li, Network Administrator, at INTERSPORT International
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18 July 2011
WAN Optimization as a Service Cuts Costs, Increases Efficiency and Capacity
Whether you’re operating a mobile, fixed or converged network, companies are facing unprecedented demand from customers for an improved quality of experience. Network optimization can ensure that your business is operating as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.
The Wide Area Network (WAN) is notoriously expensive and offers much less bandwidth, whereas the Local Area Network (LAN) has bandwidth to spare (at least 100 MB, and often 1 GB), according to WAN optimization as a service providerExpand Networks (News - Alert). The same thinking that went into connecting local users will not work as you connect your remote users. With less bandwidth, and the high cost of increasing that bandwidth, the business is forced to run applications in a constrained environment. Therefore, WAN optimization can help enterprises save tangible dollars by wiping out the need to buy more bandwidth.
WAN optimization as a service products accelerate such applications by data and bandwidth compression, elimination of transmission redundancy, data prioritization, streamlining, imposing Quality of Service (QoS), and optimization of protocols and WAN solutions. By using WAN optimization as a service devices, data transaction time between sites can be improved, according to Expand Networks. As a recent example, Expand Networks spearheaded a company-wide server consolidation project at Thompsons Solicitors, one of the leading personal injury practices in the U.K., according to a recent TMCnet report.
Thompsons’ server consolidation strategy was essentially to simplify its IT infrastructure and reduce costs across the organization. The firm, which operates in an MPLS environment for WAN connectivity between its headquarters and 26 locations in the U.K., relies on the performance of its WAN to deliver applications and business data to their distributed users’ desks quickly and securely. For this reason, WAN optimization as a service was critical for Thompsons.
With the help of Expand Networks, Thompsons was able to move forward with its wider server consolidation project while ensuring a consistent user experience for the branch offices, according to Andrew Harris, IT operations manager at Thompsons.
“We ran a trial to test the impact of the consolidation in just one of our offices and quickly realized that building WAN optimization into the project was a must,” he said. “Serving our remote locations via Citrix, we knew that being able to optimize and control this ICA traffic was key to the whole project.”
In many cases, WAN optimization as a service technology can protect business-critical traffic, while at the same time dramatically increase usable WAN capacity. Erin Harrison is Executive Editor, Strategic Initiatives, for TMC, where she oversees the company's strategic editorial initiatives, including the launch of several new print and online initiatives. She plays an active role in the print publications and TMCnet, covering IP communications, information technology and other related topics. To read more of Erin's articles, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Tammy Wolf
The Wide Area Network (WAN) is notoriously expensive and offers much less bandwidth, whereas the Local Area Network (LAN) has bandwidth to spare (at least 100 MB, and often 1 GB), according to WAN optimization as a service providerExpand Networks (News - Alert). The same thinking that went into connecting local users will not work as you connect your remote users. With less bandwidth, and the high cost of increasing that bandwidth, the business is forced to run applications in a constrained environment. Therefore, WAN optimization can help enterprises save tangible dollars by wiping out the need to buy more bandwidth.
WAN optimization as a service products accelerate such applications by data and bandwidth compression, elimination of transmission redundancy, data prioritization, streamlining, imposing Quality of Service (QoS), and optimization of protocols and WAN solutions. By using WAN optimization as a service devices, data transaction time between sites can be improved, according to Expand Networks. As a recent example, Expand Networks spearheaded a company-wide server consolidation project at Thompsons Solicitors, one of the leading personal injury practices in the U.K., according to a recent TMCnet report.
Thompsons’ server consolidation strategy was essentially to simplify its IT infrastructure and reduce costs across the organization. The firm, which operates in an MPLS environment for WAN connectivity between its headquarters and 26 locations in the U.K., relies on the performance of its WAN to deliver applications and business data to their distributed users’ desks quickly and securely. For this reason, WAN optimization as a service was critical for Thompsons.
With the help of Expand Networks, Thompsons was able to move forward with its wider server consolidation project while ensuring a consistent user experience for the branch offices, according to Andrew Harris, IT operations manager at Thompsons.
“We ran a trial to test the impact of the consolidation in just one of our offices and quickly realized that building WAN optimization into the project was a must,” he said. “Serving our remote locations via Citrix, we knew that being able to optimize and control this ICA traffic was key to the whole project.”
In many cases, WAN optimization as a service technology can protect business-critical traffic, while at the same time dramatically increase usable WAN capacity. Erin Harrison is Executive Editor, Strategic Initiatives, for TMC, where she oversees the company's strategic editorial initiatives, including the launch of several new print and online initiatives. She plays an active role in the print publications and TMCnet, covering IP communications, information technology and other related topics. To read more of Erin's articles, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Tammy Wolf
15 July 2011
Vizada Boosts Satellite Services with Expand Networks’ WAN Optimization
Expand Networks, a global leader in optimizing satellite networks, today announced Vizada, the world’s largest independent satellite communications provider, is integrating its WAN Acceleration technology to extend commercial services within its current Inmarsat BGAN, Swift Broadband and Fleet Broadband services.
Providing network and protocol optimization along with TCP and application acceleration for IP services through the Vizada satellite and terrestrial networks, the new WAN Optimization capabilities are set to enhance services for land, maritime and aeronautical customers.
“This enhancement offers our customers requiring high data throughput, a powerful, trustworthy new option,” said Michelle Wagner-Suziedelis, Senior Director, Solutions Engineering & Commercial Strategy & Product Management – Aero for Vizada. “Expand enables data intense applications to work seamlessly and efficiently over satellite.”
Combining Space Communications Protocol Standard technology (SCPS) with compression, byte-level caching and layer 7 QoS, Expand mitigates the bandwidth and latency limitations that can traditionally affect the speed and performance of applications over satellite links.
Vizada plans to provide the Expand WAN Optimization and Acceleration technology as a value added service. Customers will be able to easily integrate it with products from key Inmarsat terminal manufacturers, such as Thrane & Thrane and EMS.
Howard Teicher, Vice President for Public Sector & Satellite Markets explains “Integrating Expand’s technology is enabling Vizada to optimize its offerings to add value and competitive differentiation to its services. Critically, this sees them really maximize the communications environments of customers; passing on increased levels of quality of service and control, higher bandwidth throughput, reduced latency, and seamless delivery of business critical applications to customers via WAN Optimization-as-a-Service.”
The new Expand capabilities will be available to customers in Q3 of 2011.
Providing network and protocol optimization along with TCP and application acceleration for IP services through the Vizada satellite and terrestrial networks, the new WAN Optimization capabilities are set to enhance services for land, maritime and aeronautical customers.
“This enhancement offers our customers requiring high data throughput, a powerful, trustworthy new option,” said Michelle Wagner-Suziedelis, Senior Director, Solutions Engineering & Commercial Strategy & Product Management – Aero for Vizada. “Expand enables data intense applications to work seamlessly and efficiently over satellite.”
Combining Space Communications Protocol Standard technology (SCPS) with compression, byte-level caching and layer 7 QoS, Expand mitigates the bandwidth and latency limitations that can traditionally affect the speed and performance of applications over satellite links.
Vizada plans to provide the Expand WAN Optimization and Acceleration technology as a value added service. Customers will be able to easily integrate it with products from key Inmarsat terminal manufacturers, such as Thrane & Thrane and EMS.
Howard Teicher, Vice President for Public Sector & Satellite Markets explains “Integrating Expand’s technology is enabling Vizada to optimize its offerings to add value and competitive differentiation to its services. Critically, this sees them really maximize the communications environments of customers; passing on increased levels of quality of service and control, higher bandwidth throughput, reduced latency, and seamless delivery of business critical applications to customers via WAN Optimization-as-a-Service.”
The new Expand capabilities will be available to customers in Q3 of 2011.
01 July 2011
Expand Networks is delighted to sponsor the 2011 Ashton Metzler Application and Service Delivery Handbook by Jim Metzler - PART 3
The Application Delivery Handbook 2011 will be published and released in a series of publications. This is the third of the series of publications and consists of two sections – one on planning and one on management.
The primary goal of the planning section is to provide a central focus in the handbook for planning activities which include:
Identifying company’s key applications and services and establishing SLA’s for these applications and services.
Application Performance Engineering (APE), to help IT organizations reduce risk and build better relationships with business managers.
The management section aims to create a framework that IT organizations can modify and adopt in their environment. Successful Application Performance Management (APM|) requires a top down and tightly co-ordinated approach that is based on the on the integrated management of both the applications itself and as well as the end-to-end IT infrastructure must focus on the end user experience of the application or service.
The primary goal of the planning section is to provide a central focus in the handbook for planning activities which include:
Identifying company’s key applications and services and establishing SLA’s for these applications and services.
Application Performance Engineering (APE), to help IT organizations reduce risk and build better relationships with business managers.
The management section aims to create a framework that IT organizations can modify and adopt in their environment. Successful Application Performance Management (APM|) requires a top down and tightly co-ordinated approach that is based on the on the integrated management of both the applications itself and as well as the end-to-end IT infrastructure must focus on the end user experience of the application or service.
Download the report here - http://email.openmoves.com/link.php?M=51270&N=224&uid=2216&L=173&F=H
Expand Networks and Telkom Win Prestigious Global Telecoms Innovation Award for Wide Area Network Project
Expand Networks, www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, together with Africa’s largest Telco provider, Telkom SA, have been jointly honoured at the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards 2011, winning the prestigious prize for Wide Area Network Optimization.
Telkom and Expand Networks’ winning project successfully deployed a managed WAN optimization service for retail giant SPAR Group, improving performance levels, reducing latency and easing congestion of satellite links that had compromised the efficiency of SPAR’s applications and services.
The collaboration on the SPAR project beat off hundreds of nominations for the industry’s most innovative projects that were received from the readers of Global Telecoms Business in 2011.
Elie Barr, CEO of Expand Networks, explains the project: “Fast and resilient communications across SPAR’s supply chain is critical to ensuring high levels of service and convenience are delivered to customers. To optimize the bandwidth between SPAR’s headquarters, distribution centres and 900 stores in South Africa, we developed a managed optimisation service with Telkom to mitigate WAN latency and congestion over satellite links.
Telkom and Expand Networks’ winning project successfully deployed a managed WAN optimization service for retail giant SPAR Group, improving performance levels, reducing latency and easing congestion of satellite links that had compromised the efficiency of SPAR’s applications and services.
The collaboration on the SPAR project beat off hundreds of nominations for the industry’s most innovative projects that were received from the readers of Global Telecoms Business in 2011.
Elie Barr, CEO of Expand Networks, explains the project: “Fast and resilient communications across SPAR’s supply chain is critical to ensuring high levels of service and convenience are delivered to customers. To optimize the bandwidth between SPAR’s headquarters, distribution centres and 900 stores in South Africa, we developed a managed optimisation service with Telkom to mitigate WAN latency and congestion over satellite links.
“Results were immediate; a number of the group’s top retailers quickly gave very positive responses to the solution as user experience improved dramatically.”
Mel Lachenicht, Executive, Telkcom Business Solutions, Telkom SA, added, “Expand Networks provided a good solution to the problem due to its telco-class performance, ease of management and configuration, as well as its cost and ability to scale.”
For Expand Networks, it is the second consecutive year it has been honoured by Global Telecoms Business, receiving in 2010 an award for Satellite Service Innovation.
Barr continued, “We are all delighted to receive this award which demonstrates the value and transformational qualities of network optimisation.
“The award also chimes with our own continued commitment in working closely with our global telco partners in helping to better manage the flow of traffic and optimize communications offerings to organizations across the globe.”
Mel Lachenicht, Executive, Telkcom Business Solutions, Telkom SA, added, “Expand Networks provided a good solution to the problem due to its telco-class performance, ease of management and configuration, as well as its cost and ability to scale.”
For Expand Networks, it is the second consecutive year it has been honoured by Global Telecoms Business, receiving in 2010 an award for Satellite Service Innovation.
Barr continued, “We are all delighted to receive this award which demonstrates the value and transformational qualities of network optimisation.
“The award also chimes with our own continued commitment in working closely with our global telco partners in helping to better manage the flow of traffic and optimize communications offerings to organizations across the globe.”
The winners were announced during a gala dinner at the Park Lane Hotel in London last night. In presenting the Awards, Alan Burkitt-Gray, editor of Global Telecoms Business, commented: “This is the fifth time we’ve run the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards and this year we saw more nominations, from a greater range of operators and vendors, than ever before.
“We started the Awards in order to celebrate what the industry is doing, making a huge difference to the world, to all of us in business and as consumers.
“We started the Awards in order to celebrate what the industry is doing, making a huge difference to the world, to all of us in business and as consumers.
“This is a sure sign the industry is working harder and harder to deliver exciting and innovative services to customers worldwide. We’ve seen a greater number of nominations for services directly aimed at businesses and consumers, designed to give them better services and make their lives easier.
“Congratulations to all of this year’s award winners and to Expand and Telkom for the Wide Area Network Innovation award.”
Global Telecoms Business magazine, which is read by the industry leaders in the telecommunications industry worldwide, is part of the Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC group.
“Congratulations to all of this year’s award winners and to Expand and Telkom for the Wide Area Network Innovation award.”
Global Telecoms Business magazine, which is read by the industry leaders in the telecommunications industry worldwide, is part of the Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC group.
08 June 2011
Triton Express Gains Truckloads of Network Visibility and Control with Expand Networks
Expand Networks www.expand.com, today announces that Triton Express has successfully increased visibility and control over its network traffic with Expand Networks’ Accelerators. Applying optimization techniques to support its customers in receiving an efficient, dependable and cost-effective service at all times, the freight specialist, Triton, now has a stable and more efficient network environment.
“With our MPLS contract, we are provided with class of service, but not true quality of service (QoS), which is common. We wanted to create our own QoS to be able to fully control voice, video and data traffic and gain full visibility into our network. Expand showed me how I, as a user, can control all traffic on the network; marking packets into the MPLS last mile for granular QoS and control. This is enabling us to have three different classes of service, all now running at the cost of data class."
Craig Comins, National IT Manager, Triton Express
03 June 2011
Oxfam Australia boosts performance with Expand Networks Acceleration
“Expand’s ability to monitor, optimize, and control interactive RDP sessions and apply QoS techniques to protect VoIP also helped the product standout during evaluation. We immediately set up a trial between our head office an overseas site with poor connectivity, and we found Expand provided the acceleration to support our users’ connectivity needs,” Grant Holton-Picard, Technical Infrastructure Manager |
| To view the press release, please click here |
24 May 2011
Fwd: Expand's WAN Optimization enables Server Consolidation success at Thompsons Solicitors
Expand Networks, the leader in WAN optimization for branch office consolidation and virtualization, today announced that its advanced WAN Optimization has enabled a company-wide server consolidation project at Thompsons Solicitors, the most experienced personal injury practice in the UK. Expand's Accelerators are enhancing application and data performance for Thompsons' 1000-strong workforce, distributed in its branch offices nationwide, assuring their user experience and protecting all branch office services from congestion, latency and delay.
Date: 03/17/2011 08:00:00 AMTo view the press release, please click here
20 January 2011
PORSCHE INFORMATIK ACCELERATES BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY WITH WAN OPTIMIZATION FROM EXPAND
Expand Networks, (www.expand.com) the leader in WAN optimization for branch office consolidation and virtualization, today announced that Porsche Informatik, a division of Porsche Holding Austria, has implemented its advanced WAN optimization technology. The solution is accelerating and prioritizing critical business applications between its headquarters in Salzburg, and its subsidiaries, corporate customers and dealerships across 16 European countries. Successfully enhancing user experience and increasing business productivity, the $550,000 project is set to pay for itself in just 18 months and could deliver up to $700,000 in cost saving over three years.
Porsche Informatik relies on its WAN for running critical business processes such as vehicle ordering, order tracking, delivery and customer financing. Robert Singer, project leader for the Expand rollout at Porsche Informatik, comments:
"Fast and reliable communication between our importers, dealerships and headquarters is critical for a streamlined supply chain. However, we found our existing bandwidth provision struggling to cope with the demand for applications and data travelling over the WAN. Lotus Notes and SAP, critical for ensuring accurate and up to date financial data, were particularly problematic; regularly saturating the network at peak times. With limited bandwidth available in many of our locations, we set about evaluating optimization solutions in order to reduce congestion over our WAN links and get more out of the network."
Having installed Juniper's WAN Optimization (previously Peribit) in 2004, Porsche Informatik found the ever increasing demands on the network outstripped the benefits the solution provided, resulting in a continuously degrading network performance across its distributed environments. The company chose to replace the legacy Juniper solution with Expand Networks following a thorough evaluation of the WAN optimization market, which included Riverbed, BlueCoat and Cisco WAAS.
Singer continues: "What Expand offered us was a way to increase traffic on our WAN links in the most cost effective manner. We quickly decided that Expand's superior byte-level caching techniques and ability to deliver a rapid ROI proved the best solution from a technological and cost perspective."
Porsche has completed the implementation of Expand Accelerators across 120 sites, with 40 more to follow before March 2011. The company also implemented ExpandView, Expand's centralized management platform, at its Headquarters. According to Singer, this sped up the roll-out significantly, "By using ExpandView, we were able to pre-configure all of the Accelerators centrally. It was practically plug and play, which saved us both time and money and enabled us to experience the benefits almost immediately."
Now in place, the compression capabilities of Expand have delivered significant increases in bandwidth, helping to manage peaks in demand and protect business critical applications from congestion, whilst its byte level caching techniques have reduced repetitive traffic flowing through the network. Singer comments:
"Users have responded positively to the Expand solution, stating that key applications were running at greater speed and their corresponding output had increased dramatically. The acceleration techniques of Expand have helped overcome the latency we were previously experiencing - Lotus Notes has seen a 400% (best value) increase in performance, and SAP over 800% (best value). As we extend our operations across Eastern Europe and other regions, the solutions' ability to grow with us, and its ease of use and configuration, will be a huge benefit moving forward."
Christian Honore, Vice President of Sales EMEA at Expand Networks, concludes: "The Accelerators area designed to increase the efficiency of an enterprise's network without increasing overall IT costs. This enables large organizations like Porsche Informatik to quickly and easily extend the capacity of their networks, improving the user's network experience and productivity, and ultimately improving the overall response to customers."
Expand Networks Heralds Breakthrough Year for its Virtual Accelerator Sales and Cloud/Managed Service Provider Solutions
Expand Networks Heralds Breakthrough Year for its Virtual Accelerator Sales and Cloud/Managed Service Provider SolutionsExpand Networks RSS
Roseland, NJ – 5th January 2011: Expand Networks (www.expand.com), the leader in WAN optimization for branch office consolidation and virtualization, today announced its continued growth and market momentum during 2010, having achieved another breakthrough year in which it cemented its position as an innovator and market leader, grew its datacenter business, increased its enterprise scale, and established new telco and service provider revenue streams.
Key annual highlights:
Expand now owns one of the largest and mature installed bases in the market
Boasts total deployed market share of 60,000 units
Global customer base hits 5,000+ customers
Increased demand for Expand's Virtual Accelerator (VACC) within the Datacenter
Reflects growth in datacenter virtualization strategies
VACC offers easy install and management with VMware VSphere support
Rise in high-end enterprise deployments
Shift from tactical to strategic deployments, recurring orders from existing customers
Multiple 100 plus site customer purchases, multi-million $ deals
Unique cloud offering and commercial model for telcos and managed service providers
Service providers embedding Expand technology as part of their service offerings
Pay-as-you-go subscription model, WAN optimization-as-a-Service
900 site managed services customer win with Spar Retailer
"Despite continued economic uncertainty, 2010 proved to be another stellar year for Expand where we managed to bolster and grow our focus markets as well as breaking out into new sectors such as telcos and service providers," explained Elie Barr, CEO of Expand Networks.
"Our innovation around Cloud based offerings and radical new commercial model and partner program for telcos and services providers fundamentally changed how they procure WAN optimization solutions on a de-risked, 'pay as you sell' basis, and is already generating tremendous results, pushing Expand right to the forefront of this growing market opportunity."
Expand also continues to achieve extraordinary levels of growth within its focus enterprise marketplace by enabling organizations to successfully execute on key IT initiatives such as branch office server consolidation, server based computing, optimized satellite communications, virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
"Here, we've witnessed a significant shift in the size of organizations turning to WAN optimization to enable their strategic initiatives," continued Barr. "The tangible benefits of our technology gained significant mindshare in the high-end enterprise in 2010, firmly moving it from a branch office 'quick-fix' to a strategic company-wide business imperative. We completed some of our largest installations to date last year and added a raft of blue chip enterprises and service providers to our customer base. 2010 has been a year where we've turned technical innovation into market penetration."
Other 2010 highlights include:
Customer acquisition
Porsche Informatik - Accelerate and prioritize business critical applications across 16 European countries.
US Military - Improve performance of critical applications and communications for mobile warfighter units and remote executive travel teams.
SPAR Group - With Telkom SA, deployed WAN optimization as a managed service to accelerate applications across 900 national sites in just 6 months.
Christian Aid - Enhance connectivity and communications across its global network to help provide urgent, practical and effective assistance to some of the world's poorest countries.
DAPA (Defense Acquisition Programme Administration - South Korea) - Deployed over 350 Accelerators across its armed forces to enable fast and reliable connectivity for all army, navy, air force and special forces whether on land, at sea or in the air.
Strategic Partnerships and Alliances
HP AllianceONE - Gained network specialization partner status enabling customers to accelerate application deployment and optimize infrastructure capacity.
Inmarsat Connect Partner – Validation by the world's leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services and access to its global network of distribution partners.
Technology
Roseland, NJ – 5th January 2011: Expand Networks (www.expand.com), the leader in WAN optimization for branch office consolidation and virtualization, today announced its continued growth and market momentum during 2010, having achieved another breakthrough year in which it cemented its position as an innovator and market leader, grew its datacenter business, increased its enterprise scale, and established new telco and service provider revenue streams.
Key annual highlights:
Expand now owns one of the largest and mature installed bases in the market
Boasts total deployed market share of 60,000 units
Global customer base hits 5,000+ customers
Increased demand for Expand's Virtual Accelerator (VACC) within the Datacenter
Reflects growth in datacenter virtualization strategies
VACC offers easy install and management with VMware VSphere support
Rise in high-end enterprise deployments
Shift from tactical to strategic deployments, recurring orders from existing customers
Multiple 100 plus site customer purchases, multi-million $ deals
Unique cloud offering and commercial model for telcos and managed service providers
Service providers embedding Expand technology as part of their service offerings
Pay-as-you-go subscription model, WAN optimization-as-a-Service
900 site managed services customer win with Spar Retailer
"Despite continued economic uncertainty, 2010 proved to be another stellar year for Expand where we managed to bolster and grow our focus markets as well as breaking out into new sectors such as telcos and service providers," explained Elie Barr, CEO of Expand Networks.
"Our innovation around Cloud based offerings and radical new commercial model and partner program for telcos and services providers fundamentally changed how they procure WAN optimization solutions on a de-risked, 'pay as you sell' basis, and is already generating tremendous results, pushing Expand right to the forefront of this growing market opportunity."
Expand also continues to achieve extraordinary levels of growth within its focus enterprise marketplace by enabling organizations to successfully execute on key IT initiatives such as branch office server consolidation, server based computing, optimized satellite communications, virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
"Here, we've witnessed a significant shift in the size of organizations turning to WAN optimization to enable their strategic initiatives," continued Barr. "The tangible benefits of our technology gained significant mindshare in the high-end enterprise in 2010, firmly moving it from a branch office 'quick-fix' to a strategic company-wide business imperative. We completed some of our largest installations to date last year and added a raft of blue chip enterprises and service providers to our customer base. 2010 has been a year where we've turned technical innovation into market penetration."
Other 2010 highlights include:
Customer acquisition
Porsche Informatik - Accelerate and prioritize business critical applications across 16 European countries.
US Military - Improve performance of critical applications and communications for mobile warfighter units and remote executive travel teams.
SPAR Group - With Telkom SA, deployed WAN optimization as a managed service to accelerate applications across 900 national sites in just 6 months.
Christian Aid - Enhance connectivity and communications across its global network to help provide urgent, practical and effective assistance to some of the world's poorest countries.
DAPA (Defense Acquisition Programme Administration - South Korea) - Deployed over 350 Accelerators across its armed forces to enable fast and reliable connectivity for all army, navy, air force and special forces whether on land, at sea or in the air.
Strategic Partnerships and Alliances
HP AllianceONE - Gained network specialization partner status enabling customers to accelerate application deployment and optimize infrastructure capacity.
Inmarsat Connect Partner – Validation by the world's leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services and access to its global network of distribution partners.
Technology
AOS 6.3 – Enhanced feature set including Layer 7 QoS, dynamic SCPS support for satellite links and Microsoft RDP proxy.
ExpandView Virtual – Fully featured centralized management system that includes global deployment manager, centralized management and WAN application monitoring system within physical or virtual environments.
Accelerators 3830 and 3930 – Industry's most compact form factor outscaling competitive offerings to set new standards for price/performance at the branch office.
Global Expansion
Expand made a number of senior executive appointments in 2010 to oversee the Company's growth and investment in DACH, Southern Europe, Benelux, Latin America and APAC. Key appointments include:
Christian Honore – Vice President of Sales, EMEA
Markus Richter – Regional Manager, DACH
Christian Storey – Regional Director, LATAM
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.
ExpandView Virtual – Fully featured centralized management system that includes global deployment manager, centralized management and WAN application monitoring system within physical or virtual environments.
Accelerators 3830 and 3930 – Industry's most compact form factor outscaling competitive offerings to set new standards for price/performance at the branch office.
Global Expansion
Expand made a number of senior executive appointments in 2010 to oversee the Company's growth and investment in DACH, Southern Europe, Benelux, Latin America and APAC. Key appointments include:
Christian Honore – Vice President of Sales, EMEA
Markus Richter – Regional Manager, DACH
Christian Storey – Regional Director, LATAM
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.
21 December 2010
Like Load Balancing WAN Optimization Is a Feature of Application Delivery
When WAN optimization was getting its legs under it as a niche in the broader networking industry it got a little boost from the fact that remote/branch office connectivity was the big focus of data centers and C-level execs in the enterprise. Latency and congested WAN links between corporate data centers and remote offices around the globe were the source of lost productivity. The obvious solution – get thee a fatter pipe – was at the time far too expensive a proposition and, in some cases, not a feasible option. We’d had bandwidth management and other asymmetric solutions in the past and while they worked well enough for web-based content the problem now was fat files and the transfer of “big data” across the WAN.
We needed something else.
TOO MUCH DATA? JUST MAKE LESS of IT
The problem, it was posited, was simply that there was too much data to traverse the constrained network links tying organizations to remote offices and thus the answer, logically, was to do away with trying to juggle it all in some sort of priority order and simply make less data. A sound proposition, one that was nearly simultaneously gaining traction on the consumer side of the equation in the form of real-time web application data compression.
Here we are, many years later, and the proposition is still sound: if the problem is limited bandwidth in the face of applications and their ever growing data girth, then it behooves the infrastructure to reduce the size of that data as much as possible. This solution – whether implemented through traditional compression techniques or data deduplication or optimizing of transport and application protocols – is effective. It produces faster response times and thus the appearance, at least, of more responsive applications. As the specter of intercloud and cloud computing and the need to transport ginormous data sets (“big data”) in the form of data and virtual machine images continues to loom large on the horizon of most organizations it makes sense that folks would turn to solutions that by definition are focused on the reduction of data as a means to improve performance and success in transfer across increasingly constrained networks.
No argument there.
The argument begins when we start looking at the changes in connectivity between then and now. The “internet” is the primary connectivity between users and applications today, even when they’re working from a “remote office.” Cloud computing changes the equation from which the solution of WAN optimization was derived and renders it a less than optimal solution on its own because it does not fit the connectivity paradigm upon which cloud computing is based - one that is increasingly unmanageable on both ends of the pipe. Luckily, decreasing data size is just one of many other methods that can be used to improve application performance and should be used in conjunction with those other methods based on context.
INCREASINGLY IRRELEVANT to APPLICATION CONSUMERS
Because of the way in which WAN optimization solutions work (in pairs) they are generally the last hop in the corporate network and the first hop into the remote network. This is a static implementation, one that leaves little flexibility. It also assumes the existence of a matching WAN optimization solution – whether hardware or software deployed – on the other end of the pipe. This is not a practical implementation for the most constrained and growing environments – mobile devices – because as an organization you have very little control over the endpoint (device) in the first place (consider the consumerization of IT) and absolutely no control over the network on which it operates.
A traditional WAN optimization solution may be able to help specific classes of mobile devices if the user has installed the appropriate “soft client” that allows the WAN optimization solution to do its data deduplication trick. That’s feasible for corporate users over which you have control. What about the millions of end-users out there on iPhones, BlackBerries, and tablets over whom you do not have control. They are just as important and it is performance on which your organization/offering/solution will be judged by them. They’re an impatient lot, according to both Amazon and Google, and there are no studies to indicate that their conclusions are wrong, and have garnered enough mindshare to be awarded the right to run even the most stolid of enterprise applications:
Senior IT executives plan to make CRM, ERP and proprietary apps available to mobile devices
Ellen Messmer, Network World
Roughly 75% of senior IT executives plan to make internal applications available to employees on a variety ofsmartphones and mobile devices, according to new research from McAfee's Trust Digital unit.
In particular, 57% of respondents said they intend to mobilize beyond e-mail and make CRM, ERP and proprietary in-house applications available to mobile devices. In addition, 45% are planning to support the iPhone and Android smartphones due to employee demand, even though many of these organizations already support BlackBerry devices.
Even if the end-user is not using a mobile device, it’s likely that their connection to the Internet exhibits very different characteristics than those experienced by corporate end-users. While download “speeds” have been increasing in the consumer market, we know there’s a difference between throughput and bandwidth, and that there is a relationship between ability of the servers to serve and consumers to consume. That relationship is often impeded by congestion, packet loss, endpoint resource constraints, and the shared nature of broadband networks. It is simply no longer the case that we can assume ownership of any kind over the endpoint and certainly not over the network on which it resides.
And then you’ve got cloud. Cloud, oh cloud, wherefore art thou cloud? If you can deploy WAN optimization as a virtual network appliance then you have to be careful to choose a cloud that supports whatever virtualization platform the vendor currently supports. If you’ve already invested time and effort in a cloud provider and only later determined you need WAN optimization to improve the increased traffic between you and the provider (over the open, unmanaged Internet) you may be in for an unpleasant surprise.
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TOO MUCH DATA? JUST MAKE LESS of IT
The problem, it was posited, was simply that there was too much data to traverse the constrained network links tying organizations to remote offices and thus the answer, logically, was to do away with trying to juggle it all in some sort of priority order and simply make less data. A sound proposition, one that was nearly simultaneously gaining traction on the consumer side of the equation in the form of real-time web application data compression.
Here we are, many years later, and the proposition is still sound: if the problem is limited bandwidth in the face of applications and their ever growing data girth, then it behooves the infrastructure to reduce the size of that data as much as possible. This solution – whether implemented through traditional compression techniques or data deduplication or optimizing of transport and application protocols – is effective. It produces faster response times and thus the appearance, at least, of more responsive applications. As the specter of intercloud and cloud computing and the need to transport ginormous data sets (“big data”) in the form of data and virtual machine images continues to loom large on the horizon of most organizations it makes sense that folks would turn to solutions that by definition are focused on the reduction of data as a means to improve performance and success in transfer across increasingly constrained networks.
No argument there.
The argument begins when we start looking at the changes in connectivity between then and now. The “internet” is the primary connectivity between users and applications today, even when they’re working from a “remote office.” Cloud computing changes the equation from which the solution of WAN optimization was derived and renders it a less than optimal solution on its own because it does not fit the connectivity paradigm upon which cloud computing is based - one that is increasingly unmanageable on both ends of the pipe. Luckily, decreasing data size is just one of many other methods that can be used to improve application performance and should be used in conjunction with those other methods based on context.
INCREASINGLY IRRELEVANT to APPLICATION CONSUMERS
Because of the way in which WAN optimization solutions work (in pairs) they are generally the last hop in the corporate network and the first hop into the remote network. This is a static implementation, one that leaves little flexibility. It also assumes the existence of a matching WAN optimization solution – whether hardware or software deployed – on the other end of the pipe. This is not a practical implementation for the most constrained and growing environments – mobile devices – because as an organization you have very little control over the endpoint (device) in the first place (consider the consumerization of IT) and absolutely no control over the network on which it operates.
A traditional WAN optimization solution may be able to help specific classes of mobile devices if the user has installed the appropriate “soft client” that allows the WAN optimization solution to do its data deduplication trick. That’s feasible for corporate users over which you have control. What about the millions of end-users out there on iPhones, BlackBerries, and tablets over whom you do not have control. They are just as important and it is performance on which your organization/offering/solution will be judged by them. They’re an impatient lot, according to both Amazon and Google, and there are no studies to indicate that their conclusions are wrong, and have garnered enough mindshare to be awarded the right to run even the most stolid of enterprise applications:
Senior IT executives plan to make CRM, ERP and proprietary apps available to mobile devices
Ellen Messmer, Network World
Roughly 75% of senior IT executives plan to make internal applications available to employees on a variety ofsmartphones and mobile devices, according to new research from McAfee's Trust Digital unit.
In particular, 57% of respondents said they intend to mobilize beyond e-mail and make CRM, ERP and proprietary in-house applications available to mobile devices. In addition, 45% are planning to support the iPhone and Android smartphones due to employee demand, even though many of these organizations already support BlackBerry devices.
Even if the end-user is not using a mobile device, it’s likely that their connection to the Internet exhibits very different characteristics than those experienced by corporate end-users. While download “speeds” have been increasing in the consumer market, we know there’s a difference between throughput and bandwidth, and that there is a relationship between ability of the servers to serve and consumers to consume. That relationship is often impeded by congestion, packet loss, endpoint resource constraints, and the shared nature of broadband networks. It is simply no longer the case that we can assume ownership of any kind over the endpoint and certainly not over the network on which it resides.
And then you’ve got cloud. Cloud, oh cloud, wherefore art thou cloud? If you can deploy WAN optimization as a virtual network appliance then you have to be careful to choose a cloud that supports whatever virtualization platform the vendor currently supports. If you’ve already invested time and effort in a cloud provider and only later determined you need WAN optimization to improve the increased traffic between you and the provider (over the open, unmanaged Internet) you may be in for an unpleasant surprise.
http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/1647557
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