Exinda Releases Next Generation Platform

Exinda, a global provider of WAN optimization solutions, today announced the availability of its next generation WAN optimization appliances. The Exinda 2060, 4060, and 8060 models are the latest additions to the Exinda family of network appliances and the first products built on a new, more powerful hardware platform. All of the new models offer a complete, easy-to-use and cost effective solution for managing bandwidth and improving application performance, and allow Exinda to drive towards its goal of offering the industry’s best price-performance ratio. The new hardware platform increases Exinda’s price-performance ratio by up to 32%, meaning customers get more bandwidth support for their investment dollar. Exinda’s commitment to continuous product improvement has led the company to transition to industry standard, leading edge hardware to better support the growing demands of the marketplace with a product that has more power and performance while being more flexible, and cost effective than competitive offerings.

The new hardware establishes a platform upon which Exinda plans to further grow its solutions. The multi processor, multi core platform utilizes the latest improvements in hardware architecture. Exinda’s relationship with a leading global hardware manufacturer also allows the company to leverage the manufacturer’s global distribution, support, and logistics capabilities. Exinda will be able to offer its customers more cost effective and powerful products while at the same time offering increased support and response times.

“Moving to the new platform has given Exinda the ability to support our software with more powerful iron, and offer our customers a more cost effective solution with increased customer support” Says Ed Ryan, Exinda Vice President of Products. “The new platform also provides Exinda with the foundation needed for us to grow our product offerings and move closer to our goal of offering the industries best cost / performance ratio”

All of the Company’s new products continue to leverage Exinda’s proprietary Unified Performance Management (UPM) solutions which provide users with visibility, control and optimization of network traffic and application performance.

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Exinda Breaks the 5 Gbps Barrier

Exinda today introduced its largest, most powerful WAN optimization appliance to date, the Exinda 8760. The latest addition to the Exinda appliance line, the 8760 model offers a complete, easy-to-use and cost effective solution for managing bandwidth and improving application performance at the multi-gig level. Supporting over 100,000 users, the new appliance aims to service large education and service provider environments that require additional throughput for multi-gig connections. Designed for high performance networking, the Exinda 8760 appliance allows users to experience a 5 x performance increase over previous offerings and scale from 100 Mbps to 5 Gbps on a single appliance. The 8760 model provides users with full network visibility, control and optimization while remaining simple to use and meeting budgetary restraints.

"The trend is clearly moving towards supporting larger and larger internet links,” Explains Bob Beler, President of Information Systems Group, an Exinda gold partner and value-added reseller operating out of the Chicago area. “Having a visibility and application management solution has helped our network run more efficiently, now we can extend this offering to our larger customers with multi-gig connections. We currently have several customers that have increased their bandwidth beyond 1Gbps and several more that are lined up to do the same in the next 6 months. Gbps connections are now becoming a commonplace in many enterprises networks. It is great that Exinda is able to recognize and address the need for solutions that can scale beyond the 1Gbps barrier, the industry is asking for it.”

As organizations and markets grow into multi-gig environments, networks demand that QoS capabilities grow with it. WAN optimization is critical to ensuring that network performance and usability is not compromised. The Exinda 8760 allows organizations to grow with their network without sacrificing the ease-of-use and affordability one comes to expect from Exinda. The 8760 focuses on providing the best user experience while giving administrators all the tools they need to effectively manage network traffic. Users control the powerful, high performance solution through a single, intuitive graphical user interface (GUI). Wizards assist in the initial set up and configuration of the appliance. The single 2 RU, plug and play appliance gives users the ability view real-time reporting statistics such as number of flows, packets per second rate and the ability to group flows on screen. The Exinda 8760 allows networks to support more users, increase WAN application usage and adapt to changing patterns in network traffic.

No screwdriver is needed to upgrade the 8760 model; the unit is made to be easily upgradable with hot swappable drives and expansion slots.

The new model also allows Exinda to expand its reach and compete in new global markets and industry verticals previously left without an affordable option for a WAN optimization product with multi-gig support. Resellers will find that the new appliance and Exinda’s 100% channel strategy makes it a great alternative to higher priced solutions and an ideal fit for cost conscious customers needing multi-gig support without the expensive price tag.

“Introducing a 5 gig appliance is huge for our channel partners,” Explains Ed Ryan, Exinda Vice President of Products. “Not only can partners satisfy their existing customer’s needs, but it allows them to fill in a gap in their product portfolio and compete against vendor’s such as BlueCoat’s PacketShaper appliance line, who’s largest license is only 1 Gbps and supports only about 750 Mbps worth of traffic. This model is a game changer for our partners”

Exinda will be featuring the Exinda 8760 at the Educause Annual Conference in Denver, CO November 3-5. Stop by booth 973 to see the 8760 model in action.

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Exinda Announces Enhanced WAN Optimization Performance for Microsoft Customers

Exinda version 5.2 delivers enhanced Microsoft Active Directory integration and advanced caching and acceleration for Microsoft Exchange, Outlook and other critical applications

Exinda Inc., a global provider of WAN optimization and application acceleration solutions, today announced the availability of Exinda EXOS version 5.2. The new appliance firmware features an enhanced acceleration engine that adds support for MAPI and dramatically improves response times for critical business applications such as Microsoft Exchange and Outlook. The latest firmware also provides enhanced Microsoft Active Directory integration that gives Microsoft customers deep visibility into network activity and bandwidth utilization down to the individual user level.

“Exinda 5.2 offers a unique value proposition for customers with Microsoft environments,” said Ed Ryan, Vice President of Products, Exinda Inc. “Exinda’s integration with Microsoft Active Directory monitors network activity by users and user group in real-time, giving network administrators the power to instantly identify and take action against unwanted file downloads or bandwidth-intensive applications like streaming audio. Rich monitoring and reporting gives administrators greater flexibility and control over network resources including the ability to easily allocate bandwidth to users and user groups. In addition, Exinda’s caching and MAPI acceleration can result in an up to 95% data reduction on both client and server for customers running Microsoft Exchange and Outlook. The benefit is more efficient bandwidth utilization and faster response times for email users.”

“We were impressed with the caching and MAPI acceleration capabilities in the Beta version of Exinda 5.2,” said Jonathan Aldred, Group IT Infrastructure Manager, R&R, a major player in the European ice cream market. “By removing redundant data from our network, Exinda’s advanced caching enabled us to achieve measurable improvements in application response times. Moreover, Exinda’s integration with Microsoft Active Directory allows us to easily associate a username or user group to each and every data conversation on our network. With Exinda, we now have the ability to monitor and report on network usage at a granular user level. This visibility empowers us to take appropriate actions to optimize our network, control peer-to-peer and recreational Internet traffic and ensure application performance.”

In addition to performance and visibility enhancements, Exinda 5.2 includes new features that make the Exinda WAN optimization appliance faster to deploy and easier to manage. Usability enhancements include auto-licensing, alerts and warnings to rapidly troubleshoot network issues and a new “Find my Exinda” feature that automatically identifies all Exinda appliances on the network even if the IP is dynamically assigned. These enhancements are part of Exinda’s ongoing commitment to make the plug-and-play Exinda appliance as easy to use and as low-touch as possible.

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Exinda Announces Microsoft® Active Directory Integration in new WAN Optimization Appliance

April 22, 2009


Exinda version 5.1 provides feature-rich, user-centric WAN optimization that delivers high value and ease of use

April 22, 2009─Toronto, ON─Exinda Inc., a leading global provider of WAN optimization and application acceleration solutions, today announced the availability of Exinda version 5.1 featuring Microsoft Active Directory integration. By leveraging the user information stored in Active Directory, Exinda customers gain greater visibility into network usage by relating an Active Directory username or user group to each data conversation on the network. With this information readily available, network administrators can take appropriate actions to ensure acceptable application performance for users and user-groups and can easily trouble-shoot network bottlenecks.

"By integrating with Active Directory, Exinda delivers something unique to the market," said Ed Ryan, Vice President of Products, Exinda. "Network administrators have far more flexibility and control over network resources when they can readily see and track resource usage at a granular level. Armed with this information, the network can be fine-tuned to meet the business needs of individual users and groups, network resources can be allocated more appropriately and excessive users of network bandwidth can be quickly identified."

"We looked at several WAN optimization solutions and choose Exinda because of its superior visibility, control and optimization functionality, particularly with Active Directory integration," comments Jeff King, Systems Administrator, The Expo Group. "Other products that we considered would monitor usage and optimize applications by IP address. We use DHCP, making IP-centric WAN optimization products valueless because our users and network devices are assigned IP addresses dynamically. Exinda version 5.1 supports our environment and makes WAN optimization very straight-forward."

In addition to Microsoft Active Directory integration, Exinda 5.1 includes a number of usability enhancements that make it ideal for organizations requiring a comprehensive and tightly integrated WAN optimization solution. A Simplified User Interface is now available as an option for appliance management and reporting. This simplified view includes a performance dashboard, benefits report and guided configuration wizard.

"As a channel partner, we see the value that Exinda delivers to our customers every day,” said Kevan Paul, Senior Engineer, NLE. “The enhancements in version 5.1 show Exinda’s commitment to delivering a solution that is both feature-rich and user-friendly. The Active Directory integration worked flawlessly and expands the reporting to an even greater level of detail. We see significant market opportunity with this new product release and look forward to delivering this great value to our customers."

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Exinda Expands Product Strategy and Delivery Leadership with Two Key Additions to its Executive Team

April 16, 2009


Exinda Expands Product Strategy and Delivery Leadership with Two Key Additions to its Executive Team



Exinda continues to invest in its product offering with a view to expanding market penetration and market share in 2009

April 16, 2009─Toronto─Exinda Inc., a leading global provider of WAN optimization and application acceleration solutions, today announced two key appointments to its Product and Development teams. Edward Ryan has joined Exinda as Vice President, Products and Cheryl Davis as Director of Development. "Having Ed and Cheryl onboard strengthens Exinda's leadership team by adding two professionals experienced in designing and delivering high quality products to market," said Michael Sharma, Chief Executive Officer. "These key additions demonstrate our continued focus and commitment to defining, developing and delivering user-centric products to the marketplace. This is also the first of what I expect to be a number of exciting developments which we will be communicating to our customers and partners in the coming months."

As Vice President of Products, Ed Ryan is responsible for Exinda's Product Management, Development and Support organizations. Ed brings 20 years of experience in leading product strategy and development teams to successfully build and deliver products to market that drive profitable growth. Prior to joining Exinda, Ed was responsible for Product Management and Product Marketing at Control4 Inc, a home automation provider where he focused on the development of new products while driving product quality. His demonstrated achievements span small start-up organizations to billion dollar companies, including Citrix Systems Inc, Novell Inc, and Platform Computing.

Cheryl Davis oversees the design, development, and quality testing of Exinda products. Cheryl brings 20 years of experience spanning all areas of the software development lifecycle. Most recently with Quest Software, Cheryl spent 8 years overseeing the development of multiple products as the Senior Development Manager, where she was responsible for product revenue growth as well as sustaining the popularity of flagship products.

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Exinda Networks Signs Partnership With PT Primasarana Solusi

October 23, 2008─Jarkata─Exinda Networks, a leading global provider of application acceleration and WAN optimization solutions, today announced the company’s commitment in Indonesia and its partnership with PT Primasarana Solusi as the country’s sole distributor of Exinda Networks’ product line.

More than 1,500 companies worldwide have turned to Exinda Networks to boost application performance and gain full visibility on how network resources are being consumed. Exinda Networks’ UPM solution has been integrated into Managed Workplace’s central dashboard that provides the solution provider with complete visibility of application performance across their customers’ IT infrastructure.

"We believe Indonesia is a promising market despite the current global financial challenge and our goal here today is to mark our continuing commitment and to deliver high quality products that meet the needs of Indonesian businesses for improving application delivery through WAN optimization products,” said Con Nikolouzakis, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Exinda Networks.

Exinda Networks' approach through UPM (Unified Performance Management) integrates WAN optimization, application acceleration, application visibility and application response time measurement features onto a single appliance that offers Indonesian businesses the opportunity to accelerate their network and enhance productivity with minimal investment.

WAN optimization lowers bandwidth costs and ensures that the network is effectively used for authorized purposes like: prioritizing critical traffic and blocking non-business related packets. Exinda Networks’ solutions also ensured that employees remain productive using the corporate network by implementing dynamic network policies that can be tweaked when necessary.

The memorandum signing today marks the continued partnership between Exinda Networks and PT. Primasarana Solusi.

"We are proud to be in partnership and welcome an exceptional organization such as Exinda Networks to Indonesia,” said Iwan Setiawan, Executive Director, PT. Primasarana Solusi. “Exinda’s UPM solution is ideal for Indonesian businesses in streamlining their bandwidth costs and increase productivity.”

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Exinda Networks Announces Additions to Executive Team

September 8, 2008

Exinda Plans for Continued Growth Through Product & Sales Excellence and Channel Expansion

September 8, 2008─Toronto─Exinda Networks, a leading global provider of application acceleration and WAN optimization solutions, today announced the appointment of two new executives dedicated to growing the company by focusing on product excellence, efficiency of the sales organization and expansion of its distribution channel. Michael Sharma has been appointed as Exinda’s new chief executive officer (CEO) and Efrem Ainsley as chief financial officer (CFO). Exinda’s former CEO, Con Nikolouzakis, will take on a new role as Chief Product Officer. Nikolouzakis will also serve as Exinda’s chairman of the board.

“Exinda’s goal is to continue to deliver high quality products that meet the needs of our global customers for improving application delivery,” said Michael Sharma. “Exinda will continue to expand is distribution channel to meet the growing worldwide demand for its WAN optimization products.”

In his role as CEO, Sharma will be responsible for managing the day-to-day business operations of the company. Prior to joining Exinda, Sharma was chief operating officer and president at PlateSpin Ltd., a software company acquired in March, 2008 by Novell Inc. for $205 million. Previous to PlateSpin, he was the vice president of worldwide sales for Platform Computing. He brings more than 20 years of technology industry experience and extensive operational, technical and sales expertise to Exinda. Sharma also served as president of Netscape Canada and in various management roles at Oracle Corporation (Canada) and Amdahl.

As the new CFO, Ainsley will be responsible for all of Exinda’s financial activities with the Finance, Administration and Marketing departments reporting to him. Ainsley brings more than 15 years of experience as a financial professional with broad experience in financial reporting, corporate finance and compliance functions for growing technology companies. Prior to joining Exinda, Efrem was CFO for PlateSpin. Earlier in his career, he was vice president and corporate controller with Open Text Corporation, one of Canada's largest and most profitable software companies and served as director of Finance for Cyberplex Inc, a public company and one of North America's leading technology consulting firms.

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Exinda Networks Helps Universities Comply with New Law to Prevent Illegal Downloads

September 4, 2008




Higher Education Act of 2008 Calls for Bandwidth Management and Traffic Shaping Technology to Prevent Illegal Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

September 4, 2008─Boston─A recent update to the Higher Education Act of 1965 requires universities to have a plan to combat the illegal downloading of music, videos and other copyrighted works on college campus networks. The new law calls for universities to consider the use of technology-based deterrents such as bandwidth shaping and traffic monitoring technology to prevent illegal peer-to-peer file sharing. Exinda Networks has helped a wide variety of educational institutions worldwide to implement bandwidth shaping and traffic monitoring solutions since 2002.

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) will be writing the rules to implement this legislation. The DOE will host several regional meetings over the next few months to gather input on the rule making. In the interim, universities are required to make a good faith effort to comply with the new law.

“While illegal downloads of music and videos on college campuses has been an issue for quite some time, the new law brings this issue to the forefront,” said Con Nikolouzakis, Exinda’s chief executive officer. “Exinda’s core strengths in network monitoring, bandwidth management and traffic shaping have enabled us to help a wide variety of educational institutions long before this law. Not only can our solutions prevent illegal peer-to-peer file sharing, they improve the performance of Internet traffic and save universities money by making the most efficient use of the schools’ bandwidth links.”

Exinda Networks offers free, no risk trials of its bandwidth management and traffic shaping appliances. Exinda also hosts free Webinars for universities’ IT professionals to become familiar with bandwidth shaping and traffic management solutions.

For information on upcoming Webinars, visit Exinda's Webinar Web page.

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Exinda Networks and Level Platforms Deliver Integrated Tool for Resellers’ Remote Monitoring Managed Services

July 23, 2008─Boston─Exinda Networks, a leading provider of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions, and Level Platforms, a leading provider of remote monitoring and management software, today announced their partnership and technology integration. Solution providers using Level Platforms’ remote monitoring and management software, Managed Workplace®, will now be able to remotely monitor Exinda’s WAN optimization appliances. This will allow solution providers to proactively manage their customers’ application performance.

According to a Gartner report published in October, 2006 entitled “Forecast: Remote IT Monitoring and Management Services, Worldwide, 2005-2010,” the market for remote IT monitoring managed services is forecast to reach nearly US $36 billion within the next several years, for a compound annual growth rate of 32 percent from 2005 through 2010.

“The market for remote monitoring managed services is well established and growing,” said Stan Schreyer, Vice President of Sales for North America at Exinda Networks. “Our partnership with Level Platforms helps fulfill our vision of equipping IT solutions providers with all the tools they need to be successful in selling managed services in this important emerging market.”

Exinda’s distinctive approach to optimizing application performance is called Unified Performance Management (UPM) which integrates WAN optimization, application acceleration, application visibility and application response time measurements features onto a single appliance. Exinda’s UPM solution has been integrated into Managed Workplace’s central dashboard that provides the solution provider with complete visibility on application performance of their customers’ IT infrastructure.

“We are proud to welcome an exceptional organization such as Exinda Networks to the Level Platforms Vendor Partner Program,” said Ryck Marciniak, Director of Vendor Alliances for Level Platforms. “The integration of Exinda’s technology with Level Platform’s Managed Workplace® will be highly useful to IT solutions providers as it will help differentiate their service offering to mid-sized enterprise customers.”

Availability
Exinda’s new capability is now available as part of a firmware update at no charge to Exinda customers who have a current software subscription. For organisations who wish to purchase an Exinda WAN optimisation solution, visit http://exinda.com/public/partners.php to find a local Exinda reseller partner.

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