TechValidate Research on A10 Networks

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise government company is based on a January 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 reduce operating and hardware costs

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

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with A10 Networks:

• Accomplished the following using A10 products:
  • Improved the efficiency of a business process
  • Increased network performance
  • Improved application delivery performance
• Replaced the following vendors/solutions with A10 products:
  • Cisco

Introduction

This case study of LeaseWeb Network is based on a January 2020 survey of A10 Networks customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

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 deploy new and / or differentiated services

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)
  • Thunder TPS (DDoS Protection)
• Uses the following in conjunction with A10 products:
  • IPv6 Migration / IPv4 Preservation
  • Web servers / Web application servers
  • ERP applications
  • ECommerce applications
  • VMware

Results

LeaseWeb Network confirms it achieved the following results with A10 Networks:

• Specific business value derived from deploying and A10 products:
  • Improved the efficiency of a business process
  • Improved application delivery performance
  • Improved network security posture
• Replaced the following vendors/solutions with A10 products:
  • KEMP Technologies
• Realized a positive ROI within 9-12 months after using A10 products.
• Estimates improvements in the following areas:
  • Increased performance: 25% to 49%
  • Lowered OpEx: 10% to 24%
  • Lowered CapEx: 10% to 24%
• Rates the following from A10 when compared to competitive products:
  • Features: Better
  • Performance/Scalability: Better
  • Usability/Deployment Speed: Better
  • Reliability: Better
  • Quality of Support: Better