Microsoft and Packeteer Strike WAN Partnership

May 10, 2007: Microsoft is edging further into Cisco’s network space, signing a new partnership deal with WAN optimisation specialist Packeteer.

The deal will see Microsoft integrate Packeteer’s packet optimisation and acceleration technology into its Windows Server, System Management Server and Internet Security and Acceleration Server with a new solution called iShaper.

The two will be extending their existing relationship to create a new “Branch Office Box” for more secure and more cost-effectively managed computing in branch offices. iShaper will allow for the security-enabled, intelligent acceleration of more than 600 applications, without the need to deploy multiple products to separately solve branch office challenges.

Alongside this, Microsoft claims customers will be able to accelerate the delivery and use of applications over the WAN, taking advantage of Windows services for file, print, Active Directory, networking and more.

“Packeteer is about intelligent application acceleration and Microsoft Windows is the application platform in the enterprise,” says Dave Côté, CEO of Packeteer. “By marrying Microsoft’s server, security and application functionality and Packeteer’s WAN and application intelligence and WAN optimisation, we will provide customers with an ideal branch office infrastructure solution.”

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