The Death of the WAN Optimization Hardware Appliance: R.I.P. - HyperIP Software Advantage
The Death of the WAN Optimization Hardware Appliance: R.I.P.
Marc Staimer, President & CDS of Dragon Slayer Consulting
marcstaimer@comcast.net 503-579-3763
Introduction
WAN optimization has been solving wide area networking performance issues for nearly a decade. Depending on the vendor and the technology, it can solve serious intractable throughput problems. So what could possibly be killing off WAN optimization? The answer is nothing. WAN optimization is not dying. However, the purpose-built or even white box hardware appliance that hosts WAN optimization software is another story. The demise of WAN optimization hardware appliances is a direct result of server virtualization and more specifically the virtual server appliance (VSA). Starting with VMware vSphere, and to a lesser extent Microsoft Hyper-V as well as Citrix XenServer, the virtual server appliance makes the WAN optimization hardware appliance quite frankly, as obsolete as the buggy whip. A brief examination of hardware appliances problems and how the VSA solves those problems clearly shows why the hardware appliance is dying.
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