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778 Customers Surveyed

6,397 Data Points Collected

277 Published TechFacts

24 Published Charts

60 Published Case Studies



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A10 Networks Customer Fact

Xantaro Realizes ROI in Less Than 9 Months

Xantaro Deutschland GmbH of Germany verifies it realized a quantifiable ROI within 6-9 months after using A10 solutions within its IT infrastructure.

A10 Networks Case Study

Large Enterprise Automotive & Transport Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise automotive & transport company is based on a March 2020 survey of A10 Networks customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select A10 Networks:

  • Primary reasons for purchasing products from A10 Networks:
    • To protect servers and applications from advanced security threats
    • To protect users from advanced security threats
    • To deploy new and / or differentiated services
    • To support performance and quality-of-service SLAs
    • To meet availability and uptime SLAs
    • For a new deployment/no previous solution

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of A10 Networks that the surveyed company uses:

  • Owns the following A10 products:
    • Thunder ADC (Application Delivery and Load Balancing)
  • Uses the following in conjunction with A10 products:
    • Web servers / Web application servers
    • Microsoft Skype for Business or Lync
    • Microsoft Office 365

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with A10 Networks:

  • Accomplished the following using A10 products:
    • Improved the efficiency of a business process
    • Reduced costs for the IT infrastructure
    • Increased network performance
    • Improved application delivery performance
    • Improved network security posture
  • Realized a positive ROI within 9-12 months after using A10 products.
  • Estimates improvements in the following areas:
    • Increased performance: 50% to 74%

A10 Networks Customer Testimonial

Thunder CGN is a “High-Quality Solution”

A10 Networks facilitated the job for us. They show consideration and quality to the customer, and they produce high-quality equipment.

Marco Tulio, Engineer, Velpro Telecom

A10 Networks Case Study

Global 500 Computer Hardware Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 computer hardware company is based on a February 2020 survey of A10 Networks customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select A10 Networks:

  • Primary reasons for purchasing products from A10 Networks:
    • To meet availability and uptime SLAs

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of A10 Networks that the surveyed company uses:

  • Owns the following A10 products:
    • Thunder ADC (Application Delivery and Load Balancing)
  • Uses the following in conjunction with A10 products:
    • DNS servers
    • Web servers / Web application servers
    • Education applications
    • ERP applications
    • ECommerce applications
    • VMware
    • Microsoft Exchange
    • Microsoft SharePoint
    • Microsoft Office 365
    • Security applications or devices

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with A10 Networks:

  • Accomplished the following using A10 products:
    • Reduced costs for the IT infrastructure
    • Improved disaster recovery capabilities
  • Replaced the following vendors/solutions with A10 products:
    • Cisco
  • Realized a positive ROI within 6-9 months after using A10 products.
  • Estimates improvements in the following areas:
    • Increased performance: 10% to 24%
    • Lowered OpEx: 10% to 24%
    • Lowered CapEx: 10% to 24%

A10 Networks Customer Research

Support for Edge Computing

When asked to rate the importance of the ability to support a distributed / edge architecture when selecting a solution to support their production (customer-facing) network, organizations said:

Extremely important: 42%
Important: 47%
Somewhat important: 11%
Not important: 0%

A10 Networks Customer Research

Most Frequently Replaced Competitors

Which of the following vendors/solutions did you replace with A10 products?

Cisco
36%
F5 Networks
32%
Brocade
7%
Citrix Systems (Netscaler)
7%
Barracuda Networks
5%
Radware
5%
Fortinet (or Coyote Point Systems)
4%
HAProxy
4%
KEMP Technologies
3%
Arbor Networks
1%


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About A10 Networks

A10 Network solutions enable enterprises, service providers, Web giants and government organizations to secure and optimize the performance of their data center applications and networks. Their Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS®) platform is designed to deliver performance and security.

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