A new level of agility for the virtual enterprise

Overview

This has given rise to a new feld of technology - Software Defined Acceleration (SDA). SDA enables workloads to be accelerated over a WAN from within the virtualization domain, using common management platforms like VMware vCenter, Citrix XenCenter, and Microsoft System Center. This makes it easy to accelerate any application in a virtual environment, saving time and money by allowing virtual administrators to provision, manage, and control the acceleration of individual applications from the same panes of glass (i.e. management consoles) they use every day.

SDA allows WAN optimization technology to be consumed by users beyond the traditional networking audience and
without disruption of the network. It allows anyone with virtualization experience to quickly and easily accelerate any application over distance using the tools with which they are the most comfortable. Put simply, SDA brings application acceleration to the virtualization enterprise.

The network is often one of the biggest challenges to quickly deploying new workloads. Software Defned Networking (SDN) tackles this problem by enabling IT to decouple workloads from underlying hardware, bringing unprecedented fexibility and control.