TechValidate Survey Supports Software-Only WAN Optimization Appliances

A report by Silicon Valley research firm TechValidate has revealed a strong customer preference for software-based WAN optimization appliances with the associated CAPEX and OPEX (News - Alert) savings and the flexibility they deliver to IT for fast, simple deployment and scalability.

 

The survey, carried by TechValidate for NetEx (News - Alert), a provider of WAN optimization software, found that 88 percent of users queried indicated a preference for software-only WAN optimizers with the benefits they provide over proprietary hardware optimization solutions. The research found out strong support for virtualization technology and its ability to move server images between virtual machines within a data center and over a WAN connection to remote offices for disaster recovery sites. Users identified Virtual Server Appliances software-based WAN optimizers as an important part of an overall virtualization deployment.

 

The NetEx HyperIP software delivers WAN Optimization for data replication, cloud storage, iSCSI replication, and other large IP storage and file transfer applications. Deploying HyperIP for replication, backup, recovery and data center migrations provides partners and customers the confidence that their valuable information will be protected and moved on-time.

 

Software-based WAN optimizers don't lock users into expensive, proprietary solutions with a fixed feature set and limited scalability that require rip-and-replace upgrades to scale performance beyond the vendor's artificially-imposed limits. Software-only designs provide faster deployment, easier scalability to support new application needs.

 

According to the survey, there is a strong support for using software-only WAN optimizers in virtualized infrastructures, with 50 percent of the respondents citing virtual machine movement as the most important application to be optimized.

 

'Deploying WAN optimization as a software-based virtual appliance is a game changer for IT, creating new efficiencies with lower acquisition and operational costs and the flexibility to rapidly and easily add a WAN optimization VSA wherever and whenever needed,' states Robert MacIntyre, NetEx vice president of business development and marketing.

 

NetEx accelerates and optimizes data replication applications from vendors such as EMC, NetApp, VMware, Veeam, HP LeftHand Networks, EqualLogic, and Data Domain (News - Alert).

Customers needing to move or replicate vast amounts of critical information using their common Ethernet and TCP/IP networks over "unlimited distance" can trust NetEx to insure that they make the effective use of their wide area network (WAN) bandwidth and meet their production time windows.