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    ScaleArc

    Score6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    ScaleArc for MySQL (other versions available for SQL Server and Oracle), developed by DevFactory solution and acquired by Ignite Technologies in January 2018, is database load balancing software that promises to increase uptime, performance, and scale out for applications leveraging the MySQL database. The software drops in between applications and databases and directs queries into the database on behalf of the app - it looks to the app as if it were the database, and it looks to the…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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    ScaleArcSilver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    ScaleArcSilver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.9
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    User Testimonials
    ScaleArcSilver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IgniteTech
    It is best suited for SaaS applications where uptime and availability are a priority to the business
    Incentivized
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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
    IgniteTech
    • ScaleArc does provide high availability and during failover it takes care of the master slave lag as well seamless switch between master and slave.
    • ScaleArc also helps to reduce application traffic on MySQL database server by filtering frequently used commands like AUTOCOMMIT.
    • ScaleArc provides a single interface for all application and database user management. This helps in strengthening security aspects of user management.
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    Discontinued Products
    • WAN Acceleration.
    • Improves application performance.
    • Reduce bandwidth costs.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    IgniteTech
    • The fact that the analytics is included in the product; it really is hard to recommend this. However; I would recommend the analytics be a little more easier to use and more intuitive for drilling down to the source of the problem.
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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
    IgniteTech
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    They need to improve their Spanish communication.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IgniteTech
    Outside of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 introducing the ability to route reads across the entire availability group; there is no other solution on the market that even comes close, and that's even if they exist.
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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
    IgniteTech
    • Provided a single management interface for a complete MySQL farm in our company. It has helped particularly in managing high availability of MySQL databases thus overall improving the business website reliability. This in turn further enhances the confidence of our customers.
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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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    Screenshot of Rich analytics simplify database troubleshooting, provide a cluster-wide view of stats, and highlight queries that are good candidates for caching.Screenshot of ScaleArc provides rich details about queries, aggregated to make patterns obvious but available for drill down as well.Screenshot of The ScaleArc software supports automatic or manual failover, enabling zero downtime maintenance and avoiding app errors during database failover.