New Shunra White Paper Presents Best Practices for Selecting WAN Optimization Solutions Based on Unique, Business Driven 'Performance ROI' Metrics

Five-Step Methodology Enables Enterprise Organizations to Quickly and Accurately Select the Right WAN Optimization Product for their Company's Specific Needs

New York, NY (PRWEB) February 5, 2007 -- A new White Paper from Shunra offers customers an innovative metric for determining which vendor's application acceleration or WAN optimization solution best meets the specific IT and business needs of their organization. The metric -- dubbed "performance ROI" -- measures the performance gain delivered by such solutions under real-world conditions in relation to their cost.

By calculating performance ROI in a controlled environment, IT decision-makers can accurately compare solutions from various vendors and confidently make the right choice for their organizations based on the particular idiosyncrasies of their IT environments and business needs.

The White Paper, entitled "Best Practices for Selecting WAN Optimization Solutions: Benchmarking Performance ROI," includes a straightforward five-step methodology for testing competing vendors' products to accurately and quickly determine their respective performance ROI. Using the performance ROI calculation and following this methodology, users will be able to eliminate much of the field trial process, thereby saving significant time and money during rollout. The paper is available free of charge from Shunra's website at http://www.shunra.com/whitepapers.aspx?whitepaperId=15.

As businesses become increasingly dependent on the effective delivery of IT services over distributed enterprise networks, technologies that optimize the performance of applications over the WAN have become indispensable. However, because different vendors' solutions--which are marketed under names such as "WAN optimization," "application acceleration" and "wide-area data services"-- vary so greatly in how they apply techniques such as data reduction, latency mitigation, and bandwidth management to the challenge of application acceleration, selecting the right solution can be extremely difficult.

Shunra's performance ROI metric and benchmarking methodology were developed based on many years of in-depth customer and technological knowledge and experience. By following Shunra's approach, companies can cut through the hype and confusion in the marketplace and ensure that every dollar they invest in application acceleration or WAN optimization technologies yields the maximum possible benefit in terms of performance to the remote end-user desktop.

"The question for the application acceleration buyer isn't about which solution transfers bytes faster from router-to-router. It's which one will improve the response time of business processes and increase remote end-user productivity in the real-world network environment, " said Amichai Lesser, Director of Product Marketing of Shunra Software. "Undertaking vendor comparisons and calculating performance ROI over the real-life production network is impractical and can be downright dangerous. It is therefore essential to benchmark solutions in a controlled environment that accurately replicates the production network and provides full visibility into performance to remote end-users' desktops. Using Shunra's virtual enterprise technology, companies can quickly calculate performance ROI and, when coupled with the outlined best practices, it is a powerful combination that uniquely enables companies to make an informed selection of the best application acceleration or WAN optimization solution for the job."

About Shunra Software
Shunra is the pioneer and market leader in testing the performance and behavior of services across today's complex networks. The Shunra VE network simulation solutions let users know exactly how their voice, video and business applications will perform in any network environment - before they are rolled out into production. Many leading companies worldwide use Shunra's award-winning solutions, including 3M, Boeing, Cisco, Dow Chemical, EMC, FedEx, General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Kelly Services, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, Nestle, Pitney Bowes, and Vodafone. Shunra's headquarters are located in New York City, and the company has a major R&D center in Israel, and offices in the UK and Sweden. Shunra is also supported through a global network of channel partners. For more information, please visit www.shunra.com.

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