14 DAY TRIAL // Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization, prioritization and visualization technologies on top of native Windows services, make up the Windows Box designed as the first comprehensive Windows-based branch office solution. Microsoft partnered with Packeteer to produce the Packeteer iShaper, via a joint product strategy.
iShaper is designed as a Windows-based branch office IT solution, aimed at delivering additional speed and security for branch office computing. According to the Redmond Company, the original version of iShaper will be made available in the coming months, with additional releases in the forth quarter of 2007.
"The remote branch office is becoming one of the top network IT initiatives of the decade," said Lucinda Borovick, program director, datacenter networks, IDC. "IT organizations want to deliver leading-edge server and storage resources to the distributed enterprise while keeping operational and management costs in line. Unified branch office appliances that include application visibility, security and accelerated delivery of applications will play a major role in meeting the needs of the remote branch."
Windows Server, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server, and Systems Management Server (SMS) are the foundation for Packeteer's Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization and application visibility and prioritization technologies.
"By deploying Packeteer's current Windows-based iShared WAFS, its Mobiliti laptop and desktop products, and PacketShaper appliance, we have interoperability with our Windows infrastructure and have been able to more securely and intelligently deliver LAN-like performance and services to all of our offices and remote workers," said Mark Dietrick, CIO of Burt Hill, one of North America's largest architectural firms. "The announcement of a single branch office platform combining Microsoft security technology and Packeteer's intelligent application optimization is something we look forward to having to further support our multiple office enterprise."