Expand Networks, www.expand.com, the leader in optimising WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualisation, today announces the industry's first sub-$1 000, fully featured WAN optimisation solution for enterprises and small to medium businesses.
As part of its continued commitment to bringing the most cost-effective, feature-rich and innovative WAN optimisation solutions to support IT consolidation and virtualisation initiatives, Expand's latest Virtual Accelerator for branch offices significantly decreases up-front CapEx, reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) and increases the return on investment (ROI) of the existing WAN and branch office infrastructure.
Starting at $995, the new Virtual Accelerator can leverage free virtualisation platforms such as VMware Server and VMware ESXi in the branch office. As a true virtualised solution, it can be deployed under traditionally challenging and extreme conditions such as on aircraft, mobile environments and remote and unattended locations.
The Virtual Accelerator can be deployed on servers at the branch office that have become redundant as a consequence of server consolidation, enabling the recycling of otherwise surplus hardware and supporting a green IT strategy. With full integration with VMware's Infrastructure 3 Services, the Virtual Accelerator supports the full suite of VMware tools, allowing IT to deploy, manage, maintain and assure the Virtual Accelerator within the virtualised infrastructure.
As enterprises engage in branch office consolidation and virtualisation initiatives such as server-based computing, and move steadily towards a virtualised environment of desktops and servers, users and applications get physically further away from one another, creating a virtualisation gap.
The Virtual Accelerator's ability to live in, and work out of a virtual environment and optimise all TCP and UDP applications over the WAN, delivers a superior end-user experience, closing the user/application gap and putting the user in 'virtual proximity' of the application and data centre services.
“As the pioneer and leader in WAN Optimisation for nearly a decade, we have continued to innovate and set the direction for others to follow,” exclaimed Efi Gatmor, CTO of Expand Networks. “This is another example of our vision and ability to execute in bringing industry 'firsts' to market. With the Virtual Accelerator, we have effectively given enterprises the ability to rapidly deploy a global virtual WAN optimisation solution, eliminating costly shipping, freight and duty costs, reducing TCO and accelerating ROI.”
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