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New White Paper: Accelerated Managed Service Provider
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New Report from Replify Argues that a New Breed of MSP is Emerging
Belfast, United Kingdom – Replify, the first company to introduce an end-to-end all-software wide area network optimization solution, today announced a new initiative focused on Managed Service Providers. In conjunction with technology analyst firm Quadriga Consulting the company has published a new report and short video for the MSP community.
The firm has coined the term Accelerated Managed Service Provider to denote MSPs that embrace the idea of enhanced user experience over bandwidth constrained wide area networks.
According to Kevin Donaghy, Replify’s CEO, “We asked Quadriga Consulting to look at what’s happening to the managed service provider market – and they came up with a novel approach. Quadriga had a look at the market trends material being assembled by the MSP community itself, summarized it and responded to it. The report pinpoints the new hot segments of the MSP market but suggests that unless we see the emergence of MSPs that actively consider user experience, service quality will be seriously questioned.”
He continued, “We hear lots about the explosion in on-demand software, software as a service, cloud computing and virtualization – and these are all hot technologies as far as MSPs are concerned. But MSPs also provide hosted enterprise applications, to back-up and DR services, network management and email services. But the elephant in the room that is rarely mentioned is the wide area network. The WAN represents a productivity bottle-neck. It’s often slow, it introduces latency into mission critical applications and can make MSPs look bad because it impacts quality of service.
“Let’s face it – cloud computing is all very good when users have robust broadband connections. But try using hosted SharePoint on the road, or from a customer’s premises – or even from a modest speed broadband connection. It’s not a LAN experience. However, as far as the user is concerned, it should be. And it can be with all-software based application acceleration from head end to work-group to client. Replify is the only company able to provide such a solution – and on a subscription based pricing model for MSPs.”
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Editorial Information
Copies of the report From MSP to Accelerated MSP can be downloaded from Replify.com – and a summary video version of the report is also available on the company web site.
Quadriga Client Media Release 
New version enhances collaborative working and accelerates Microsoft SharePoint, Lotus Notes and Enterprise 2.0 secure web applications
Belfast, Northern Ireland, 20th February 2009 – Replify, the company that pioneered the all-software based approach to application acceleration, has announced an enhanced version of its Reptor application acceleration suite. The suite now includes seamless integration between corporate servers and distributed workgroup resources. It achieves this by accelerating traffic between virtual appliances, in the corporate data centre, and remote offices connected by wide area network connections. This means that remote workgroup workers have a significantly improved collaborative working and file sharing experience.
Replify Launches Version 3 of Application Accelerator/Announces Media and Analyst Tour
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NB: Replify Media & Analyst Tour Planned for Mid November US, East Coast…scroll to the bottom of this post for more details or Register Here for Boston and Here for San Fran
Replify (http://www.replify.com), the WAN optimization and application acceleration software firm – today announced general availability of Version 3.0 of its Reptor acceleration suite of products.
The Reptor is a 100% software based WAN Optimization solution that allows network managers complete control and visibility of network resources through the new Reptor Enterprise Manager. The new Reptor Enterprise Manager offers visibility of each and every client on the network, offering fine-grained reporting on individuals’ experience for applications and protocols. The new overview capabilities also facilitate clear analysis of the acceleration for each business critical application.
Other improvements have also been incorporated into version 3 that will further enhance Replify’s market leadership in the all-software WAN optimization space – as evidenced by over 100 deployments in over 40 countries worldwide.
According to Kevin Donaghy, Replify’s CEO, “We are establishing clear blue water between ourselves and the competition with this release. The product is already recognised as one that is simple to deploy and a no-brainer for accelerating applications used by latency and bandwidth constrained mobile and remote workers. As well as producing this enhanced reporting we’ve now added even better acceleration for CIFS, Windows files sharing, and HTTP traffic.
“Our XDR optimization technology, for example, has been improved still further. From an end user’s perspective it means that data gets to users in seconds rather than minutes – and there is no need for investment in new boxes at the server or client ends. That’s what makes this product truly unique. It used to be that application acceleration was only for the chosen few but now anyone that uses slow or mobile connections to company servers can get massively improved application performance – and it’s a doddle for the network guys to implement back at base. Plus they can see who’s using what and when using a fabulous visual management console.”
PC Quest, the Indian based enterprise software magazine, recently tested the Reptor suite. Their final verdict was:
“If you see the ease of configuration and performance against pricing, it is a brilliant product. On top of it, the licensing model is versatile making it suitable for setups such as BPOs, test centers, etc.”
Further details of the test are available here…
Quadriga Consulting is in the process of organising media and analyst briefings on Replify and its Reptor Suite of Products. Briefings are planned for the US East Coast for 10th/11th November and West Coast 13th and 14th November. If you would like to schedule a briefing please use our contact form at the bottom of our Contact Us Page.
Replify targets medium to large corporate with distributed operations for the most complete virtualized WAN optimization suite available…[Client Media Release]
Replify – the WAN optimization and application acceleration software firm – today announced a new enterprise manager that now fully rounds-out the company’s REPTOR suite. With the REPTOR Enterprise Manager, companies with distributed operations and mobile workforces will now have complete visibility of application acceleration from data center to client.
The REPTOR Enterprise Manager makes it easy to manage a large REPTOR Accelerator deployment comprising many clients and REPTOR WAN optimized appliances. REPTOR Accelerator deployment is configured in the Manager using a simple-to-use and highly intuitive web interface. The REPTOR Enterprise Manager automatically configures clients and appliances with the necessary rules to ensure optimal WAN performance.
The Enterprise Manager fits seamlessly within the wider REPTOR virtualization approach to application acceleration. The software can reside in data center or branch office application servers – rather than dedicated machines or physical appliances. Indeed Replify is the only WOC (WAN optimization controller) player in the world to have such a comprehensive suite of all software based components. Together they achieve industry leading acceleration with minimal requirement for increased computing or connectivity infrastructure.
According to Kevin Donaghy, CEO of Replify, “Our approach to making corporate applications run faster has already been proven. Applications that have been REPTOR-optimized over wide area networks run hundreds of times faster. But with our Enterprise Manager users will be able to see at first hand the acceleration upside at data center, branch and client. Appliances and clients will be configured based on how the network has been described by the administrator – removing any complicated rule generation. Subsequent changes to the system configuration are broadcast instantly to all connected clients and appliances. The result is simple configuration and administration everywhere our REPTOR components are placed.”
Replify’s virtual appliance and client-side software, incorporating XDR bi-directional data reduction technology, is available to download for trial today. Network managers can see for themselves the improvements that can be achieved through Replify’s REPTOR solution by visiting http://www.replify.com/downloads/
Replify was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The company’s objective was to be the first to develop an all-software based WAN optimisation solution that would exceed hardware based performance. The Replify principal management team has gained considerable experience developing and bringing to market WAN optimisation products at both Swan Labs and F5 Networks. Now the team is focusing on the next generation of WAN optimisation and intends to make Replify a global player in software solutions.
Further information about Replify and its products can be found at www.replify.com
Replify Launches World First All Software Based WAN Optimisation Solution
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CLIENT MEDIA RELEASE
Replify’s Reptor allows enterprises to deliver content and run applications faster to branch offices and distributed workforces over constrained networks like broadband and wireless connections…
Belfast, Northern Ireland, 16th April, 2008 – Replify (http://www.replify.com), the WAN optimisation company founded by former Swan Labs executives Kevin Donaghy and Wesley Darlington, today announced general availability of the world’s first all-software based WAN optimisation solution.
WAN optimisation has become mainstream for enterprises that need to speed application performance – messaging, financial, sales and marketing applications – across relatively low speed wide area and mobile networks. In the past companies have been forced to install expensive hardware appliances in both data centres and remote locations. But now Replify has cracked the development challenges to bring to market a world first: an all-software based enterprise class solution that straddles data centre HQ, branch office servers, client PCs and mobile devices.
According to Kevin Donaghy, CEO of Replify, “the challenge that enterprises face with distributed applications always relates to bandwidth or latency (and sometimes packet loss). Large companies have attempted to address the problem by purchasing WAN optimisation hardware devices. But these are notoriously costly to purchase, install and maintain – and hardware solutions are costly on the environment too. They consume more power and occupy rack space. Our software solution gets round the inherent disadvantages of the hardware led approach. Server-side, Reptor sits on the customer’s preferred virtual appliance – such as VMWare or Microsoft Hyper-V. The Reptor server-side solution can be configured for the corporate data centre or branch office. A Reptor client-side application is installed in users’ PCs and mobile devices and, hey presto, applications run faster. The network administrator also gets a detailed picture of overall application performance improvement through our Reptor Enterprise Manager.”
The benefits of this approach to the user are huge. Critical business applications run significantly faster over existing network and computing infrastructure. Mobile data charges are also reduced. But, according to Wesley Darlington, CTO of Replify, there are even more important strategic advantages.
“There is more and more demand from the boardroom to reap the advantages that centralised corporate computing can bring – faster reporting and a single view of company performance across regions. This places huge demands on creaking distributed computing networks. However, by adopting our all-software approach to application optimisation across corporate networks, companies suddenly get the advantages that we have built into our solution. In effect we create an optimised tunnel down which application data flows. By adopting Reptor end-to-end our customers achieve vastly improved data services upon which to run distributed information systems. And we all know that unless an optimised infrastructure is in place, corporate apps will just come creaking to a halt.”
Replify’s server-side and client-side software is available to download for trial today. Network managers can see for themselves the improvements that can be achieved through Replify’s Reptor solution by visiting http://www.replify.com/downloads/
Replify was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The company’s objective was to be the first to develop an all-software based WAN optimisation solution that would exceed hardware based performance. The Replify principal management team has gained considerable experience developing and bringing to market WAN optimisation products at both Swan Labs and F5 Networks. Now the team is focusing on the next generation of WAN optimisation and intends to make Replify a global player in software solutions.
Further information about Replify and its products can be found at www.replify.com
