Expand Solutions

MANAGEMENT & VISIBILITY

• Work smarter, not harder
• Lower the total cost of ownership
• Automatically see the performance of all your network applications

Feel the Pain, Love the Solution

Let's Roll It Out into Production

A problem has been developing in your network, and is affecting your ability to perform in your delivery of those business critical applications. You have to take action soon. You have done the research. You have heard the sale's pitch. You have tested the product yourself. It works. So what is keeping you from buying today?

But How Will It Work in the Organization

Is It Feasible to Dedicate a Resource to Each Appliance?

Have you considered how you will support this product in the future? What happens when there are changes in the network and your appliance needs to be configured differently? How much effort is required to backup the configuration of each appliance you are managing? Do you have to login individually to each appliance to change its configuration, or even just to check its status? How will you roll out a mass code upgrade to these appliances? What effort will be required to swap out one of the appliances should that be necessary? In the final analysis, while these appliances may solve a pain you have today, will managing these appliances in the future cause you pain you do not have today?

Can You Effectively Manage Without Visibility into All the Applications?

Knowing that your application acceleration solution is making performance better is one thing, but is that improvement constant? When does it fluctuate? Is it the same for all locations? Is it the same for all applications? How will you know when performance is degrading? How will you troubleshoot if something goes wrong? How will you know if a new application is on your network, and if it is the source of problems you have been seeing? How can you effectively manage your application acceleration solution if you do not have visibility into all of the applications on your network and their performance?

A Solution You Can Live and Work With

Low Ownership Costs and High Visibility

Expand believes that solving the immediate pain is only the beginning. To be strategic to the organization, the solution must work with the existing infrastructure and processes. The solution must be easy to deploy, maintain, and upgrade, allowing one change to be applied to many appliances at once. It must be aware of the business critical applications, as well as all of the other applications on the network. It must easily report on the status of the network in a way that management and non-technical stake holders can appreciate. Anything short of this will be a tactical solution at best, and will need to eventually be replaced with a better solution. Why not start with a solution that works well from the beginning?

Expand's Management & Visibility Solution

Application and Network Visibility

Expand's Application and Network Visibility solution will report on the performance of the applications running your business. It will also automatically report on the applications that are impacting the performance of your business - the unknown and often unmonitored applications. Use of the Accelerator's professional graphs will allow you to visually appreciate what is happening in the network, and easily print them off or save them as a PDF. See throughput, acceleration, and performance of the links in the network and the applications running on them, or use the Accelerator to send NetFlow to a collector. Whether troubleshooting a new issue, or accounting for the performance of the network, Expand solutions provide the visibility to stay informed.

ExpandView

ExpandView is Expand's central management platform, enabling cost effective and low effort management of the Expand solution. When it comes to deployment, ExpandView can automatically discover new Accelerators and load them with the appropriate configuration. As it sets up Accelerators, it will automatically create a network map, allowing quick views of the network status, performance, and alerts. From ExpandView, easily upgrade any Accelerators in the network, as well as keep an inventory of model, code version, and status of all the Accelerators. From one station, control all of the components in the Expand solution. This allows low effort management of the entire Expand solution with less resource, and that is value and efficiency that contribute to the bottom line.

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