TechValidate Research on A10 Networks


Case Study: Medium Enterprise Media & Entertainment Company

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




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of A10 Networks by TechValidate.

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