[THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading Pro vider of WAN Op timization Solutions

From: "Landin, Mark" <Mark.Landin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 13:37:53 -0500
Got it. So that's on the network side. I know Tacit does delta
optimization for WAFS traffic.

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Steve Greenberg
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 1:49 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading Pro
vider of WAN Op timization Solutions



An intelligent algorithm which watches the actual payload of packets and
does not send data that already exists on the target side. By analogy,
if the packet contained the word  LICENSE and you then send LICENSES
(plural) it would only send the S, probably a bad example but it gives
you the basic idea

 

Steve Greenberg

Thin Client Computing

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Scottsdale, AZ 85262

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www.thinclient.net

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Landin, Mark
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 11:23 AM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading Pro
vider of WAN Op timization Solutions

 

What is that?

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joe Shonk
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 1:15 PM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading Pro
vider of WAN Op timization Solutions

There is still room for improvement.  For one, differential compression.

 

Joe

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Landin, Mark
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 10:42 AM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading Pro
vider of WAN Op timization Solutions

 

My understanding is that the ICA protocol itself is already pretty
"optimal" so I'm not sure what Orbital brings to the table that Riverbed
and Tacit don't. Tacit in particular seems to cover ALL the bases:
disk-cache WAFS, WAN optimization for CIFS, NFS, HTTP, Sharepoint, SQL,
and others, plus Windows domain functions, including authentication,
DHCP, print serving, etc, all in one appliance.

 

Is there some "special" ICA optimization that Orbital can do that others
can't?

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Winslow, Philip
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 11:43 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading Pro
vider of WAN Op timization Solutions

I'd agree that the press release is a bit much with the "A Leading
Provider of WAN Optimization Solutions" language, but the technology is
rather interesting. 

 

Orbital Data can accelerate applications delivered by Presentation
Server (up to 5x faster according to Citrix), and in the future, if
Citrix Systems can add stronger offerings for Wide Area File Systems
(WAFS) and caching into the WANScaler appliances, WANScaler could be
positioned as an appliance to optimize the performance of application
streaming technologies.  My guess is that we'll also see a "super agent"
in the future -- i.e., a combination of the OrbitalEdge Agent, Tarpon
Agent, Program Neighborhood Agent, and Reflectent Agent.  

 

Orbital Data is a small company right now, but Citrix is going to really
ramp the R&D team.  They've got a ways to go on the development side,
but it'll be interesting to watch what comes of this acquisition
longer-term.

 

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Steve Greenberg
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 12:50 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading
Provider of WAN Op timization Solutions

 

I don't know, we are getting a lot of interest from customer in this
area and we have been told that both Cisco and Riverbed products did not
deliver during testing - maybe Citrix is on to something here....

 

Steve Greenberg

Thin Client Computing

34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453

Scottsdale, AZ 85262

(602) 432-8649

www.thinclient.net

steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Tim Mangan
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 7:09 AM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading
Provider of WAN Op timization Solutions

 

Or maybe Riverbed, which looks pretty hot right now too.

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Landin, Mark
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 9:36 AM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading
Provider of WAN Op timization Solutions

 

Packeteer, who just bought Tacit, who looked to me like a REAL "leading
provider". 

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 7:10 AM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading
Provider of WAN Op timization Solutions

Wow they have 60 employees to service whopping 75 customers? How does
that make them a leading provider? WTF? I'd be much more excited if they
bought somebody like Packeteer. 

JK

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