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NitroAccelerator vs. Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)

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    NitroAccelerator

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    NitroAccelerator installs as a device driver to endpoints to optimize TCP-based connections. The solution is software-based and does not rely on third party proxies, distributed caching, lateral data-movement, or hardware appliances. The vendor states that NitroAccelerator is EPL Certified and approved to run on DoD networks with no known vulnerabilities or direct-competing vendors and is currently accelerating and securing enterprise-level connections all over the world.N/A

    Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASilver Peak's WAN Optimization brand and appliances were discontinued after the company's acquisition in 2020 by HPE. Similar capabilities are supplied now under HPE's Aruba brand.N/A
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFirst year Maintenance & Support (M&S) are included in the license price. For the second year on, annual M&S will be charged at 20% of the original license price.
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    NitroAcceleratorSilver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    NitroAcceleratorSilver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
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    Nitrosphere
    If you have an analytics-supporting SQL Server instance on a VM or bare metal, this is for you. Any large queries will get a massive speed-up. If you're using a DBaaS, then you would need to set up a proxy VM to see the benefits. If you have a transactional-only database, you won't likely see any benefits.
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    This is well suited when you need to deploy a virtual router to provide SD-WAN services across multiple sites. This works great for small businesses since they added firewall services. The price and feature set are also great for mid-sized enterprises due to the ability to manage multiple appliances with templates, central reporting, and ability to provide high availability of the appliances with VRRP.
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    Pros
    Nitrosphere
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    Discontinued Products
    • WAN Acceleration.
    • Improves application performance.
    • Reduce bandwidth costs.
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    Cons
    Nitrosphere
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    • Managing more and more routers can add complexity with templates.
    • Documentation around internal routing protocol they use is confusing.
    • Boost add-on was oversold by pre-sales team and not helpful during testing.
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    Support Rating
    Nitrosphere
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    They need to improve their Spanish communication.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Nitrosphere
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    We currently have almost all Cisco Meraki and would have loved to keep the product portfolio the same. Silver Peak was far cheaper and offered far more features. A lot of our evaluation showed that NGFW offers SD-WAN but it is not a full-featured deployment. Silver Peak is by and large better at being able to use both links at once, offer failover, QoS, and central reporting.
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    Return on Investment
    Nitrosphere
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    • Able to get rid of MPLS
    • No more router hardware costs
    • Able to use both WAN links instead of one being only failover
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