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

  • From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:14:37 -0700

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
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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 Behalf
Of Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 7:10 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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