Expand Networks, the leader in optimising WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualisation, has beaten industry rivals to win the prestigious title of Best of Interop Las Vegas, with its Virtual Accelerator.
The winners were announced during a ceremony on 19 May held at Interop, Las Vegas, where the panel of judges, made up of award-winning editors and analysts from InformationWeek, placed Expand's Virtual Accelerator ahead of tough competition from Citrix Systems and Spirent Communications to win the Performance Optimisation category.
The judges selected the products they believe will have the greatest potential impact and advance business technology efficiencies. As a truly virtualised offering, the Virtual Accelerator is able to utilise the existing hardware, shared storage, management, back up policies and configuration tools, as well as ensuring existing Service Level Agreements and support services are maintained, thus simplifying data centre management and reducing TCO.
Adam Davison, Corporate Vice-President of Sales and Marketing, Expand comments:
“We are delighted to be awarded this tremendous accolade. Our virtualisation technology coupled with our innovative economics makes this product particularly relevant to all sizes of enterprises today, as WAN optimisation becomes a critical enabler in today's consolidation drive.
“The innovation we have demonstrated in product development this year has helped our customers improve remote user productivity, even in the most complicated environments and delighted to achieve this recognition.”
“This year was an exciting year for the Best of Interop Awards because there were so many strong contenders in every category,” said Art Wittmann, Managing Director of InformationWeek Analytics. “VMware and each of the category winners have truly demonstrated the essence of innovation and deserve this recognition for their contributions to the industry.”
“The submissions we received for the Best of Interop Awards were a true reflection of the tremendous amount of energy and innovation in the market today,” said Lenny Heymann, Interop General Manager. “We congratulate VMware for their contributions and for demonstrating that Interop is the best place to see the latest and most exciting advancements in the business technology industry.”
Expand Networks is demonstrating the award-winning Virtual Accelerator, and its revolutionary new product, the Mobile Accelerator Client, at Booth #2325 at Interop 2009, Las Vegas.
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