Expand Networks www.expand.com,
the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and
virtualization, has taken another significant step in its virtualized
product strategy with the launch of ExpandView
Virtual. ExpandView is a fully featured centralized management
system that overcomes the challenges associated with large scale
deployment, configuration, proactive reporting and alerting across its
range of physical and virtual Accelerator devices, and within physical
or virtual environments. ExpandView delivers ‘Application fluent
network visibility’ to optimize application performance and
bandwidth utilization and provides ‘trend analysis reporting’ to
proactively warn of, and control, potential capacity challenges.
The launch of ExpandView Virtual is a key element of Expand’s continued
focus of giving enterprise IT the most flexible deployment options
available as they look to take full advantage of the cost and complexity
savings that a virtualized infrastructure offers. With ExpandView
Virtual organizations are able to deploy on their hardware
infrastructure of choice resulting in greater flexibility, simplicity
and scalability.
ExpandView Virtual is an ideal solution for enterprises
with a centralized datacenter environment running virtual servers. Its
ability to be deployed as an image on a virtual machine overcomes the
traditional challenges previously associated with installation,
configuration and management presented by heterogeneous hardware
environments and operating system configurations. Allowing for rapid
provisioning, extreme scalability and ease of management enabling
organizations to more effectively and efficiently deploy, configure and
manage Expand Accelerators, be they virtual or physical, ExpandView
Virtual thereby removes complexity, increases productivity and reduces
total cost of ownership.
ExpandView Virtual is also well suited for telcos,
managed service providers and cloud providers offering WAN
optimization-as-a-service; grid computing solutions and cloud based
services. With its powerful Virtual Customer Partitioning (VCP)
capability, ExpandView Virtual enables services to scale easily;
organizations are able to support as many Accelerators as required by
running multiple instances of ExpandView Virtual. Enabling a virtual
instance of ExpandView per customer on a single hardware platform
decreases the dedicated hardware footprint, reduces cost and simplifies
management for service providers.
“We continue to take an infrastructure agnostic approach to WAN
optimization,” explained Adam Davison, corporate VP sales & marketing at
Expand. “As more and more organizations look to take advantage of
virtualization technologies in delivering business agility, commercial
growth and competitive advantage it is critical that we offer them a
solution that is complementary with their infrastructure of choice. With
our range of virtual and physical appliances, coupled with our newly
launched ExpandView Virtual management solution and virtualized
licensing model, we believe we have the most flexible, scalable and
cost-effective WAN optimization solutions in the market.”
Following the successful launch last year of its Virtual Accelerator
(VACC), Expand continues to see heightened interest from its customers
and the market around its product virtualization roadmap as
organizations look to take advantage of the cost and complexity savings
offered by a virtualized infrastructure. Expand’s WAN optimization
strategy is fully focused on delivering real benefits to its customers
by enabling major IT initiatives including branch office virtualization
and consolidation and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
Follow these links for more information on ExpandView Virtual for enterprise
and service
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