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The need to centralize and streamline IT infrastructures is a concern for many organizations. This provides many benefits; namely simpler and easy to manage applications and hardware. Consolidation efforts typically move servers from the local network, across the wide area network to centralized locations like a data center. Accelerating application performance is crucial to the most successful IT consolidation endeavors. Application acceleration is part of server consolidation efforts because the user community will be required to perform more transactions over the WAN than ever before. Without a WAN Optimization solution to accelerate applications these transactions could result in network congestion and frustrated end users. Wide-area data services solutions can accelerate application performance from five to 50 times, in some case up to 100 times over the WAN. Bandwidth utilization is typically reduced by 60 to 95%.
To assist in streamlining server consolidation efforts, LTI’s extends a virtualization platform that provides customers with the facility to run additional services and applications virtually on VMware in a protected partition on the WAN accelerator appliance itself. This revolutionary approach allows customers to deploy local services in all their branch offices without the need to deploy and maintain complete servers to run these applications. The business benefits are minimizing the hardware requirements at the branch office, which enables companies to consolidate their infrastructure even further, reducing costs, and simplifying administration, all while still delivering essential local services.
Organizations have widely implemented IT infrastructure consolidation measures to reap many of the well-known benefits: simplified management, lower costs, and improved data protection and resource utilization. Despite these efforts, there are still services that must be delivered locally. Local print, DNS, and DHCP are good examples of these types of "edge" services that defy many central consolidation efforts. The virtualization platform we offer allows organizations to run these services, as well as Microsoft Windows Server, streaming media, monitoring, and security services on the WAN accelerators, so organizations can eliminate these now superfluous servers to further reduce hardware, software, and maintenance costs and IT complexity.
The virtualization platform is uniquely suited to branch office server consolidation and virtualization. First, the “Virtual-Server” capabilities in the appliance is the only wide area network (WAN) accelerator to run industry-leading technology from VMware as the virtualization platform, leveraging the resources most organizations already have in house. Virtual servers run in a protected zone and do not impact the resources necessary for peak appliance operations. It also enables customers to run up to five different virtual machines simultaneously, eliminating more servers from the branch office. And, it runs on most of our offered models, enabling customers to benefit without having to replace their previous WAN optimization investments.
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Case Study: LAN Acceleration for Latency Reduction/Back-Up Efficiency, RI National Guard
Solution Overviews:- RSP for Consolidation
- Network-Based Backup & Data Replication
- Server Consolidation: Riverbed & VMWare
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