Nemertes Impact Analysis:

Crescendo Virtualizes Optimizer, Highlighting Growing Importance of
Carrier Services, Clouds

Crescendo Networks (private) has upgraded its AppBeat DC software to support multitenancy, highlighting growing enterprise interest in carrier-based application delivery optimization and cloud services. Nemertes has found a majority of companies interested in expanding their use of hosted services with carriers. To function effectively, optimization gear in carrier or cloud provider networks needs to be either dedicated to a customer -- requiring over-provisioning -- or virtualized, so portions of optimizer resources can be allocated to customers.

Impacts:

Enterprises: Internal charge-back is another good reason to want virtualized optimization services; if you are in a cost-recovery IT shop, explore solutions like Crescendo's, which allow accurate accounting of resources consumed for optimizations delivered.

Vendors: Internal virtualization or other multi-tenant support will become crucial for selling to carriers, cloud and SaaS providers, and IT shops that do full cost accounting; is your gear ready?

Investors: Other names to watch here are privately held Ipanema Technologies and Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR).

John E. Burke, Principal Research Analyst

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