TechValidate Research on A10 Networks

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise media & entertainment company is based on a January 2016 survey of A10 Thunder Series customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Purchased A10 Networks for the following reasons:
  • To reduce operating and hardware costs

Use Case

• Owns the following A10 products:
  • Thunder ADC
• Uses the following in conjunction with Thunder Series products:
  • DNS servers
  • Web servers / web application servers
  • VMWare
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Microsoft Sharepoint
  • Security applications / devices

Results

• Has accomplished the following with their A10 Thunder Series:
  • Improved network security posture
• Increased the overall performance of their applications / network infrastructure by 25% – 49% with their Thunder Series.
• Rates the following Thunder Series capabilities when compared to competitive products:
  • Features: much better
  • Performance / scalability: better
  • Usability / deployment speed: much better
  • Reliability: same
  • Quality of support: much better

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise media & entertainment company is based on a January 2016 survey of A10 Thunder Series customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Purchased A10 Networks for the following reasons:
  • To reduce operating and hardware costs
  • To deploy new and/or differentiated services
  • To support performance and quality-of-service SLAs
  • To meet availability and uptime SLAs
  • New deployment/no previous solution

Use Case

• Owns the following A10 products:
  • Thunder ADC
  • Older AX ADC
• Uses the following in conjunction with Thunder Series products:
  • Web servers / web application servers
  • Game software

Results

• Has accomplished the following with their A10 Thunder Series:
  • Reduced costs for their IT infrastructure
  • Increased network performance
  • Improved application delivery performance
• Replaced the following vendors with Thunder Series products:
  • KEMP Technologies
  • NGINX
• Lowered their operating costs for application networking and/or network security by 75% or more with their Thunder Series products.
• Increased the overall performance of their applications / network infrastructure by 25% – 49% with their Thunder Series.
• Rates the following Thunder Series capabilities when compared to competitive products:
  • Features: much better
  • Performance / scalability: much better
  • Usability / deployment speed: much better
  • Reliability: superior
  • Quality of support: superior