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Wick Hill appointed Distributor By Expand Networks
June 2011 by Marc Jacob
Wick Hill has been appointed distributor for US vendor Expand Networks, the leader in optimising WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualisation. Expand is a pioneer in this area with a range of solutions for accelerated delivery and guaranteed performance of business critical applications and services, within virtualised environments and across distributed enterprises.
The solutions
Delivering fast and reliable access to applications over the WAN is now an essential aspect of any IT strategy. Strategies such as virtualisation, server-based computing and server consolidation shift servers out of the branch offices to consolidate and centralise them in the data centre. Whilst this helps reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) of the WAN, it creates a bigger geographical distance between the application and its user.
Expand Networks addresses this ‘proximity gap’ by delivering WAN optimisation solutions specifically designed to enhance performance over the WAN and execute IT initiatives such as branch office server consolidation, server-based computing, optimised satellite communications, and virtualisation.
Expand Networks’ award winning solutions, with the industry’s most complete line of accelerators (appliance, virtual, mobile client), along with the ExpandView management platform, address these WAN performance issues holistically by providing virtual bandwidth. Unlike other solutions that focus on just acceleration, compression or quality of service, Expand delivers all of these capabilities, working together in one comprehensive, multi-service platform with extensive management capabilities.
