2011 PilotHouse Award - Application Delivery Optimization

The Nemertes PilotHouse award for Application Delivery Optimization (ADO) recognizes ADO appliances (physical or virtual) that optimize application delivery working from within the network. ADO solutions may cache, compress, accelerate, shape, or condition network traffic—the province of the traditional WAN optimizer—or they may do server load balancing and offload—traditional application delivery controller functions. ADO solutions may layer on any number of additional functions, for example application visibility and usage reporting, or access control, content filtering, or other security tasks. IT professionals who use ADO solutions rate their providers on technology, value, and customer service.