Exinda Virtual WAN Optimisation Appliance

Exinda, provider of WAN optimisation solutions incorporating Unified Performance Management, announced a new virtual appliance, which delivers each of the benefits delivered by Unified Performance Management with its hardware-based WAN optimisation solutions in a virtualised software load.

Enterprises and service providers can use the Exinda virtual appliance to deliver WAN optimisation services to users and customers without having to use a dedicated hardware appliance.

The Virtual Exinda WAN Optimisation Appliance is compatible with all major hypervisors in virtualised environments. It also supports flexibility with regards to storage; storage is not hard coded into the virtual appliance, but can be sourced through the virtual infrastructure and leverage the enterprise SAN architecture in place. This will boost performance for optimisation features that rely on disk storage such as the Exinda Edge Cache, WAN Memory (data de-duplication), and CIFS Acceleration.

The Virtual Exinda WAN Optimisation Appliance is currently being beta tested by service providers and enterprise data centres to provide public and private cloud-based optimisation services. Enterprise infrastructure and operations executives who want to virtualise all functions can use the new virtual appliance in front of application servers to deliver visibility, traffic shaping and optimisation services to all users, including mobile device users. Exinda's hardware appliances are already in use by over 30 service providers around the world, providing cloud-based optimisation services to computer and mobile device users.

"Virtualisation and cloud computing are the two biggest trends in computing today, and our new virtual appliance plays right into both of them," said Kevin F. R. Suitor, vice president of marketing at Exinda. "Our virtual solution offering gives us more complete technology coverage on a variety of use cases in today's market."

The three pillars
on which Unified Performance Management is built are:

• Visibility. This pillar operates at Layer 7 of the network, providing insight into all network activity, usage and performance. It provides CIOs with all the user and application information they need to keep their networks operating at peak performance. Exinda provides managers with in-depth reports on network traffic, which empowers them to rapidly take action to improve network performance, user experience and optimise productivity.
• Control. This pillar allows CIOs to optimise network resources to the needs of their organisations through comprehensive control over network traffic, without placing heavy-handed restrictions on users. Management can be done from a high level to dynamically shape and prioritise traffic, or it can be controlled at the user or group level, should specific users or groups have unique job requirements.
• Optimisation. Exinda's WAN optimisation solution provides detailed application classification and prioritisation, granular policy-based traffic control, and selective TCP and application acceleration. With Exinda, businesses can improve application response times, increase traffic throughput, and reduce the effects of latency. The result is near LAN-like application performance across the business' WAN.