TechValidate Research on A10 Networks


S&P 500 Pharmaceuticals Company Rates the Thunder ADC as Superior

Introduction

This case study of a S&P 500 pharmaceuticals 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 consolidate server requirements
    • To deploy new and/or differentiated services
    • To protect servers and applications from advanced security threats
    • To support performance and quality-of-service SLAs
    • To meet availability and uptime SLAs

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
    • ERP applications
    • VMWare
    • Microsoft Lync
    • Microsoft Exchange
    • Security applications / devices

Results

  • Has accomplished the following with their A10 Thunder Series:
    • Reduced costs for their IT infrastructure
    • Increased network performance
    • Improved application delivery performance
    • Improved disaster recovery capabilities
  • Replaced the following vendors with Thunder Series products:
    • Citrix Systems
    • Cisco
  • Lowered their operating costs for application networking and/or network security by 10% – 24% with their Thunder Series products.
  • Increased the overall performance of their applications / network infrastructure by 75% or more with their Thunder Series.
  • Rates the following Thunder Series capabilities when compared to competitive products:
    • Features: superior
    • Performance / scalability: superior
    • Usability / deployment speed: superior
    • Reliability: superior
    • Quality of support: superior




About This Data

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