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A10 Networks Customer Research

Improved Performance, and Reduced Costs with A10 Products

Which of the following have you accomplished with your A10 product?

Improved application delivery performance	47%
Increased network performance	40%
Reduced costs for your IT infrastructure	32%
Improved network security posture	29%
Improved the efficiency of a business process	29%
Improved disaster recovery capabilities	12%
Supported regulatory compliance requirements	10%

A10 Thunder Series Customer Satisfaction Rating

“High Levels of Reliability and Performance,” Says Financial Services Company’s CTO

A Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at a business financial services company is very likely to recommend A10 Thunder Series as…

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%

A10 Networks Case Study

Large Enterprise Industrial Manufacturing Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise industrial manufacturing 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
- To support performance and quality-of-service 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)
- Harmony Controller (Centralized Management and Analytics)
Uses the following in conjunction with A10 products:
- Web servers / Web application servers
- Microsoft Skype for Business or Lync
- Microsoft Exchange
- Microsoft SharePoint

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with A10 Networks:

Accomplished the following using A10 products:
- Increased network performance
- Improved application delivery performance
Replaced the following vendors/solutions with A10 products:
- Had already A10 in place
Realized a positive ROI within 3 months after using A10 products.
Estimates improvements in the following areas:
- Lowered CapEx: 75% or more
Rates the following from A10 when compared to competitive products:
- Features: much better
- Performance/scalability: much better
- Usability/deployment speed: much better
- Reliability: better
- Quality of support: much better

A10 Networks Case Study

Ministerio de Defensa

Introduction

This case study of Ministerio de Defensa is based on a March 2022 survey of A10 Networks customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

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

Primary reasons for investing in products from A10 Networks:
- Improve application delivery and performance
- Protect servers and applications from advanced security threats
- Consolidation of networking equipment, e.g., ADC, SLB, NAT, FW, etc.
- Deploy new and / or differentiated services
- Improve operations with analytics and observability

Use Case

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

Utilizes the following A10 products:
- Thunder ADC (Application Delivery and Load Balancing)
- Thunder SSLi (Outbound TLS/SSL Decryption)
- Harmony Controller (Centralized Management and Analytics)
Replaced the following vendors/solutions with A10 products:
- F5 Networks

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with A10 Networks:

The surveyed company agrees with the following statements:
- “I recommend A10 Networks’ products over other solutions”
- “A10 Networks provides outstanding customer support”
- “A10 Networks improved our network security posture”
Realized a positive ROI in 6 – 12 Months after using A10 products.
Rates the following from A10 when compared to competitive products:
- features: much better
- performance/scalability: better
- usability/deployment: much better
- reliability: much better
- quality of support: superior
Estimates improvements in the following areas:
- performance: 75% or more
- operational Agility: 75% or more
- accelerate Software Strategy: 75% or more
- security Incident Reduction: 75% or more
- customer Satisfaction: 75% or more
- reliability: 75% or more
- opEx: 75% or more
- capEx: 75% or more
Estimates an actual dollar savings of $100,000 to $500,000 since using A10 Networks’ solutions.
Describes A10 Networks’ products as:
- Reliable
- Secure
- High quality
- Affordable
- Easy to use
- Easy to deploy
- Great post-sales support
- Comprehensive

A10 Networks Customer Review

Turkish Oil Company Petrol Ofisi Applauds A10 Networks Thunder TPS

4.5/5 Stars

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Improved Performance, and Reduced Costs with A10 Products

“High Levels of Reliability and Performance,” Says Financial Services Company’s CTO

Most Frequently Replaced Competitors

Large Enterprise Industrial Manufacturing Company

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

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Ministerio de Defensa

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Organization Profile

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Turkish Oil Company Petrol Ofisi Applauds A10 Networks Thunder TPS

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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.